ExoLaunch satellite launch integrator on Russia’s Vostochny, and picking winners among smallsat launch startups

by Peter B. de Selding

 

LOGAN, Utah — ExoLaunch of Germany was responsible for integrating and preparing the launch of a large cluster of small satellites during the July 5 Soyuz mission from the new Vostochy Cosmodrome.

The Berlin-based company is now looking at an increased launch cadence working with several rockets at a time when the small-launcher business is trying to catch up with the smallsat/cubesat market.

Launch integrators such as ExoLaunch will be important go-betweens for customers that are unable to determine what lies beyond the . . .

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