EPIC Missions

Your Mission, Our Design

We understand how your business works and can deliver a solution that meets your goals. We pride ourselves in our comprehensive EPIC missions and customer service. Our friendly team go above and beyond to create a bespoke, seamless experience.

AAC Clyde Space believe in consistency in service delivery, ensuring that every customer receives the same high-quality experience, transparent pricing structure and tailored package based on their requirements.

>25 Operational Years Experience

>25 Operational Years Experience

AAC Clyde Space will be celebrating 20 years of operations in 2025. AAC SpaceQuest part of the AAC Clyde Space Group, founded in 1994 have delivered on-orbit and operated over 20 satellites, since 2004, with diverse payloads for a variety of commercial customers and government agencies.

35+ Satellites launched

35+ Satellites launched

We have launched and continue to launch satellites for Earth Observation, Communication and scientific missions. With payloads stretching across the VDES, IoT, SINIT, EO to AIS applications.
In fact, AAC Clyde Space has been flying AIS payloads and collecting AIS data from space for more than 20 years.

100+ Years Aggregated Heritage and Counting

100+ Years Aggregated Heritage and Counting

No only do we have over 20 years of experience designing and manufacturing spacecraft but we have even more man hours invested in our in-house developed space components and solutions, solutions that we use in our own satellites.

>25 Operational Years Experience

AAC Clyde Space will be celebrating 20 years of operations in 2025. AAC SpaceQuest part of the AAC Clyde Space Group, founded in 1994 have delivered on-orbit and operated over 20 satellites, since 2004, with diverse payloads for a variety of commercial customers and government agencies.

35+ Satellites launched

We have launched and continue to launch satellites for Earth Observation, Communication and scientific missions. With payloads stretching across the VDES, IoT, SINIT, EO to AIS applications.
In fact, AAC Clyde Space has been flying AIS payloads and collecting AIS data from space for more than 20 years.

100+ Years Aggregated Heritage and Counting

No only do we have over 20 years of experience designing and manufacturing spacecraft but we have even more man hours invested in our in-house developed space components and solutions, solutions that we use in our own satellites.

Adaptable End-To-End Satellite Mission Solutions

Alongside our standardised EPIC spacecraft, designed for Earth Observation and Communications applications, we offer a wide range of additional services to ensure our solution fits your overall business needs.

Spacecraft Should Align with Your Business. Not The Other Way Around

Our adaptable end-to-end EPIC mission services and spacecraft can be tailored to meet your unique data needs.

We’ll work with you and your team, exploring your business and technical needs, to build out your package based on the following options:

EPIC Design

Mission design service addressing your business needs. Every aspect of your mission will be carefully analysed, from service to data requirements
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EPIC Manufacture

Satellite production, integration and in-house environmental test services.

EPIC Launch

Tailored launch and insurance services. With in-house launch brokerage services, regulatory and assurance services to secure optimal routes to orbit
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EPIC Operations

Ensuring data acquisition and delivery to your servers. Commissioning and nominal operations service, ensuring reliable access to your data.
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EPIC PLATFORMS

Next Generation Design
Designed for Earth Observation and Communications missions, our EPIC spacecraft range is fundamentally optimised for use in a wide range of applications, from weather forecasting and precision agriculture monitoring to the Internet of Things (IoT) and remote sensing.

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EPIC SATELLITES

EPIC LINK

  • Designed for communications

  • Available with customer supplied payload, with the option of Xiphos SDR

  • High power to meet your mission requirements

  • Low-noise design

  • Premium platform with unparalleled flight heritage

  • Rapidly manufactured flight ready satellite

  • EPIC-SAFE for reliable, secure data transmission

  • Resilient command and data handling

  • Compatible with de-orbit regulations

  • Compatible with main launch vehicles

  • Quality assured

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EPIC VIEW

  • Available with Simera Sense xScape100

  • Fast downlink to meet your data needs

  • High-precision, high-accuracy ADCS

  • Premium platform with unparalleled flight heritage

  • Rapidly manufactured, flight-ready satellite

  • EPIC-SAFE for reliable, secure data transmission

  • Resilient command and data handling

  • Compatible with de-orbit regulations

  • Compatible with main launch vehicles

  • Quality assured

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Missions

We have developed expertise in the delivery of multiple space missions with bespoke requirements ranging from IoT to quantum technologies.

Io-1

AAC Clyde Space has been selected by Iota Technology to execute an end-to-end satellite mission as part of MagQuest, a multimillion-dollar competition to advance how to measure Earth’s magnetic field.
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Lusospace Constellation

AAC Clyde Space are delivering 11 satellite kits to Portuguese company LusoSpace in 2024. The EPIC 8U variant will be co-designed by AAC Clyde Space and LusoSpace, and built in Portugal.
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Ymir-1

The Ymir-1 satellite serves as an in-orbit demonstrator with a specific mission – to provide essential data, laying the groundwork for data exploration and the development of VDES application services.
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Intuition-1

The mission aims to offer the first satellite with processing capability to segment hyperspectral images in orbit. Traditionally used in the mining industry, hyperspectral imaging is increasingly being used in a variety of applications and KP Labs envisage future use for its technology in applications ranging from agriculture, forestry and mining to environmental protection and defence.
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MIR-SAT-1

AAC Clyde Space delivered Mauritius’ first satellite, a 1U CubeSat (MIR-SAT-1), to the Mauritius Research & Innovation Council (MRIC) in 2021.
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ELO-3 & ELO-4

As part of Eutelsat’s ELO project, we delivered two 6U CubeSats, for launch in 2021, which will enter commercial service as soon as they are delivered into orbit.
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AMBER Phoenix

We’re delivering a full turnkey solution to Horizon Space Technologies, including launch, operations and data delivery. The satellites will become part of Horizon Space Technologies’ Amber™ constellation, which is dedicated to delivering Maritime Domain Awareness intelligence data.
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SeaHawk

AAC Clyde Space were part of the Sustained Ocean Color Observations using Nanosatellites project, a collaboration between the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Cloudland Instruments and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, to design, manufacture, launch and operate SeaHawk-1, a 3U CubeSat with HawkEye Ocean Color Sensors.
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PICASSO

AAC Clyde Space delivered a 3U scientific CubeSat, PICASSO (Pico-Satellite for Atmospheric and Space Science Observations), an earth observation demonstration mission for the European Space Agency.
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GEMS

We delivered a 6U satellite as well as associated services such as launch and commissioning to Orbital Micro Systems (OMS). This follows the in-orbit success of IOD-1 GEMS, a 3U satellite, produced by AAC Clyde Space carrying a payload from OMS, in a demonstration mission financed by the UK Satellite Applications Catapult.
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NSLSat-2

We delivered a full end-to-end mission for our partner NSLComm, from manufacturing, customer payload integration, launching, commissioning and operating the satellite to delivering a ground segment software solution
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Our Service Sets Us Apart

Our experts in the Art of the Possible focus on your business priorities

We take care of the space part – from design through to build, launch, operations, to data delivery – so our clients can focus on their core business without needing to dive into mission complexities or manage or even own space assets themselves.

Cultivating an Excellent Experience

We believe in consistency in service delivery, ensuring that every customer receives the same high-quality experience. Our team demonstrates expertise and problem-solving skills to address customer issues effectively. Our understanding of every aspect of a New Space customer experience is based on decades of insight and on-the-ground working. We use this depth of knowledge to create a bespoke, seamless experience.

Transparent Pricing

From the get-go we are open and honest with our pricing structure. We understand how important it is for our customers to plan their business model around our pricing. Costs for additional services, such as mission analysis and design, payload procurement, launch services to operations, and data delivery, are agreed before kick-off.

The Right Team for the Job

You wouldn’t trust a doctor with 1 or 2 years’ experience to perform open heart surgery, so why should you settle for anything less than a team that has amassed over a millennia of in-orbit heritage with your business. Our delivery teams draw on this wealth of experience, tried and tested designs, and a global network of partners to answer your needs.

Going Above and Beyond

Our friendly team builds strong relationships with our customers and proactively highlight any foreseeable obstacles for their mission, taking pre-emptive actions to both meet their solution needs and offer out the box options to choose from.

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Iota’s Io-1 Mission

AAC Clyde Space is working with Iota Technology to execute an end-to-end satellite mission as part of MagQuest, a multimillion-dollar competition to advance how to measure Earth’s magnetic field. The mission will see a 4U EPIC satellites, equipped with Iota Technology’s magnetometer payload, launched to measure the Earth’s magnetic field. AAC Clyde Space will handle the manufacturing, launch, commissioning and operation of the satellite for a 3-year period.

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Seahawk

Satellites are one of the most vital tools to better understand our planet. They enable us to capture a global view of what is happening across the planet.

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Ymir-1

Ymir-1, a flight proven AAC Clyde Space EPIC LINK spacecraft serves as an in-orbit VDES demonstrator. Designed and built by AAC Clyde Space it carries a VDES payload, enabling seamless two-way communication between the satellite and ground-based stations for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore maritime communication everywhere on the globe

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MIR-SAT-1

AAC Clyde Space delivered Mauritius’ first satellite, a 1U CubeSat (MIR-SAT-1), to the Mauritius Research & Innovation Council (MRIC) in 2021. The satellite was designed in collaboration with MRIC’s Engineers and built in AAC Clyde Space’s Glasgow facilities and was delivered to JAXA to be deployed from the Japanese Experiment Module, KiboCUBE, on the ISS.

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PATH TO CONSTELLATION DELIVERY

Many MEO or LEO satellites are needed to maintain continuous coverage over an area, a constellation of satellites can talk to, or keep an eye on, the same places on Earth at all times. The coverage area provided by a single satellite only covers a small area that moves as the satellite travels at the velocity needed to maintain its orbit. A web, or constellation, of satellites around the planet can provide access to many corners of the world, creating global or near-global coverage and connectivity. They are connected to globally distributed ground stations, and even via inter-satellite communication, and can enable communications in unserved and underserved communities, enhance global monitoring and observation to greatly reducing the time needed to obtain science and technology results. The need to utilise and access space infrastructure in a timely and cost-effective manner, without the need or desire to understand it, is increasing. With shorter development times, risk distribution spread over multiple spacecraft, the benefits of lower latency to the reduction in economic space barriers for all types of companies and countries, the adaptability and flexibility offered by a CubeSats constellation is enormous.

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