XO-BUS satellite platforms
Exobotics
Exobotics offers a range of XO-BUS satellite platforms (Nano, Micro, Mini) designed for rapid mission deployment, with standardized interfaces and baselines to streamline the path from contract to orbit.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Payload capacity
- 16 kg
- Design life
- 5 years
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
- Spacecraft mass class (Nano)
- <32 kg
- Payload mass, max (Nano)
- Up to 16 kg
- Payload volume, max (Nano)
- Up to 10U
- Spacecraft mass class (Micro)
- 32–150 kg
- Payload mass, max (Micro)
- Up to 80 kg
- Payload volume, max (Micro)
- Up to 175U
- Spacecraft mass class (Mini)
- 150–500 kg
- Payload mass, max (Mini)
- Up to 370 kg
- Payload volume, max (Mini)
- Up to 680U
- Design life
- 5 years in LEO
- Contract to orbit (Achieved)
- <9 months
- Contract to orbit (Target 2028)
- 3 months
About
Exobotics’ XO-BUS satellite platforms provide mission infrastructure prepared ahead of need, allowing customers to bring their own payload or choose an established option. The platforms feature a standardized payload interface for power, data, mechanical, and thermal connections. Each mass class (Nano, Micro, Mini) has a fixed spacecraft baseline, developed independently of individual customer programs, ensuring quality by design with verified changes. The mission process is streamlined, allowing licensing, launch, ground, and operations preparation to progress alongside payload integration. Exobotics offers a comprehensive mission system, including platform and payload integration, mission and spectrum licensing coordination, launch procurement and integration, ground and mission control, and flexible operations models from LEOP through routine bus operations.
Documentation
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