MuSat XL
Muon Space
500 kg-class high-power spacecraft platform extending the Halo stack for demanding multi-payload LEO missions.
Technical specifications
- Spacecraft class
- 500 kg-class
- Orbit average payload power
- 1 kW+
- Downlink data volume
- >5 TB / day
- Networking
- Internet-standards based, high-bandwidth, low-latency comms and optical crosslinks
- Payload interface
- Muon PayloadCore architecture (onboard network, storage, compute)
- First customer
- Hubble Network (satellite BLE / Bluetooth network)
- Revisit (2-satellite initial deployment)
- 12-hour global revisit, scalable design for faster coverage
- Heritage
- Built on Muon's 200 kg MuSat architecture, flying since 2023
About
MuSat XL is Muon Space’s most capable satellite platform, a 500 kg-class spacecraft built on the heritage of Muon’s 200 kg MuSat/Condor architecture. It delivers a dramatically expanded capability tier to the flight-proven Halo(TM) stack – more power, agility and integration flexibility – while preserving the speed, scalability and cost-effectiveness needed for constellation deployment. It is optimized for Earth observation and telecommunications missions requiring multi-payload operations, extreme data throughput, high-performance intersatellite networking and precise, agile attitude control and pointing.
Muon’s PayloadCore architecture enables rapid hardware/software integration of payloads and deployment of cloud-like workflows to onboard network, storage and compute. The first customer for the XL platform is Hubble Network, which is deploying a next-generation Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) payload with a phased-array antenna on MuSat XL satellites to build a global satellite-powered Bluetooth network.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
