Space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance Data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, Kleos Space, has recently announced an update on the launching of Kleos Scouting Mission on the PSLV-C49 Mission of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota Range in India (SHAR).
The NSIL via Spaceflight Inc. has informed the Kleos Space that four of its Kleos satellites planned onboard PSLV-C49 mission is scheduled to launch in the first half of November this year based on the existing planning of activities. But due to operational circumstances beyond the control of New Space India Limited (NSIL), this schedule is still subject to change.
Four Kleos Satellites to Launch on Frist Half of November
Kleos Scouting Mission
According to the press release of Kleos Space, the company is set to launch its satellites under a rideshare contract with Spaceflight Inc., which will be managed by NSIL, a government-owned company of India under their Department of Space.
The Scouting Mission of Kleos has been ready since 2019 and was shipped to the launch site earlier this year in February. The company anticipated the launch in March 2020, but it was delayed due to the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic situation, much like the scheduled space missions in other companies.
As the company is already prepared to launch its Kleos Scouting Mission, they are also able to seal partnerships that will allow for fast commercialization. The company has just finalized its Distribution Partner and Data Integrator Agreement with a Longmont, Colorado-based AllSource Analysis Inc (AllSource), this week.
The agreement, which would last for a couple of years, would allow AllSource to leverage the radio-frequency reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) taken by Kleos to provide its customers with additional information for their intelligence requirements.
Kleos Space Inc. Director, Karyn Hayes-Ryan, said that the Kleos business model would sell their products through integrators, which bring data sets together with the Kleos RF Geolocation data products that will analyze and add value to the data before the sale of the derived product.
She also said that the company is pleased to be working with experts from All Source, which contributes to their high impact intelligence output.
The time will come when NSIL through Spaceflight Inc, will confirm the exact launch date of the four Kleos satellites once the activities at the launch base successfully progress.
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About Kleos Space
In 2017, a group of experienced space engineers founded the Kleos Space intending to develop a new space enabled Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) concept and disruptive in-Space technologies.
The company will launch and operate satellite infrastructures that will produce commercial ISR as well as geo-services data. Additionally, it will also sell the DaaS internationally through subscription to government agencies, the intelligence community, end-users, and businesses interested in identifying threats, assets, targets, and emergence beacons or those in distress.
Magna Parva, a space engineering firm based in the United Kingdom founded in 2005, transferred the background IPR to Kleos, which has been used to develop in-space technologies for nine years and the concept of geolocation data collection mission for three years.
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