Ambassador
Terran Orbital
Premier ESPA-Grande rideshare microsatellite platform with up to 200kg payload and optional Type 1 encryption for DoD/Intel missions.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 500 kg
- Payload capacity
- 200 kg
- Power
- 1,500 W
- Thrust
- 0.017 N
- Data rate
- 0.125 Mbps
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Configuration
- ESPA Grande
- Applications
- LEO
- Native orbits
- 400 km - 1200 km
- Launch mass (Wet, max)
- Up to 500 kg
- Available payload mass
- Up to 200 kg
- Max solar array power
- 1.5 kW (3rd-party solar array included)
- Redundancy
- Dual-string
- Power system
- 66 V system power; 12 V, 9 V rails available
- Communication data rate
- S-band: 125 Kbps uplink, 2 Mbps downlink; X-band: 650 Mbps downlink
- Propulsion
- 1150s Hall-effect standard, options available
- Thrust
- 17 mN
- Payload deck area
- 104 cm x 112 cm
- Pointing accuracy
- 10 to 50 arcseconds, higher accuracy available
About
Ambassador comes with Terran Orbital’s standard mini-satellite EPS architecture and builds off the entire product line of spacecraft platforms with the same avionics and GNC algorithms. The reaction wheels on the Ambassador are sized to allow the spacecraft to maintain agility, and the platform is designed from the ground up to be compatible with rideshare requirements. Ambassador supports commercially available or custom payloads and offers optional Type 1 encryption for military-grade security. It includes a propulsion system ideal for phasing a constellation into its mission orbit, station keeping, and disposal. The precursor to the Ambassador (Zuma+) was designed for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Key benefits: the largest deck area allowed by an ESPA-Grande interface for rideshare missions; top offering for the DoD/Intel community with the largest available payload and optional Type 1 encryption.
Baseline modules included: Flight Computers (2), Watchdog Backplane, 66V Battery Modules (8-12), 66V MPPT (2-3), 66V Load Controller, 28V Low/High-power Point-of-Load (varies), Coarse Sensors (4), Gyro Assembly, Star Trackers (3), GPS (2), Magnetorquers (3), Reaction Wheels (4), LDRR (2), MDR (2).
Documentation
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