True Anomaly, Inc. hosted the grand opening of the company’s state-of-the-art spacecraft manufacturing facility, GravityWorks, in Centennial, Colorado.
The company also announced it recently received authorizations from NOAA and the FCC to perform non-Earth imaging (NEI) and demo rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO), respectively, with its Jackal autonomous orbital vehicles (AOVs) currently in production at GravityWorks. These are significant milestones in True Anomaly’s mission to define the next generation of space security.
True Anomaly joins a growing number of aerospace and defense companies that have selected Colorado for their operations. Colorado is home to one of the largest space economies in the country, and headquartering operations in the state helps the company meet its objective of delivering spacecraft fully built in the USA.
True Anomaly’s GravityWorks grand opening event was attended by dozens of U.S. government officials and customers, industry partners, and members of the media.
Offering a novel, assembly line approach to satellite manufacturing, GravityWorks will be able to produce a fully-tested, mission-ready satellite every five days. The 35,000-square-foot facility serves as the home of True Anomaly’s Jackal AOVs, the first two of which are slated for launch in February 2024 aboard a SpaceX Transporter-10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
At the GravityWorks grand opening event, Rogers announced the company recently received a NOAA license to operate Jackal 1 and 2 for commercial remote sensing in NEI, which will include radar, shortwave infrared, longwave infrared, and visible wide and narrow field of view imagery. This variety of sensor phenomenology will enable Jackal to collect data even in poor lighting conditions such as when the spacecraft is in Earth’s shadow. In addition to the NOAA authorization, True Anomaly was granted FCC authorizations to conduct on-ground testing of Jackal transmitters and to demonstrate spacecraft-to-spacecraft rendezvous in close proximity with Jackal 1 and 2 once on-orbit.
“The GravityWorks facility—including the patent-pending satellite design, engineering processes and world-class talent—is instrumental in True Anomaly’s ability to deliver resilient offerings at scale to help the U.S., its allies, and partners meet continuously evolving space security and sustainability challenges,. GravityWorks was built to meet any volume of spacecraft our customers will require and to turn tactical problems into innovative solutions at the powerful intersection of hardware, software, and AI.” — Even Rogers, CEO, True Anomaly
