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This summer SFL celebrated the launch anniversaries of the AISSat-1 and -2 nanosatellites and their remarkable legacy in Norway’s space-based Automatic Identification System (AIS) detection constellation...

Congratulations to Alexandre Florio, an SFL MASc student, who won the 2nd Place Award in the international student competition at this year’s Small Satellite Conference in Logan, Utah. Alexandre’s...

By Dr. Robert E. Zee Ten years ago in 2014, SFL became the first microspace developer to develop and integrate the hardware systems and software algorithms that make autonomous formation flying a reality...

By Dr. Robert E. Zee SFL is celebrating 10 years of autonomous formation flying with smaller satellites. On June 30, 2014, we launched CanX-4 and CanX-5, the first nanosatellites to accomplish precise,...

In the first part of this blog, we discussed our development of the BRIght Target Explorer (BRITE) mission, a constellation of five 7-kg nanosatellites developed by SFL that provide extraordinary insights...

In the Summer of 2014, scientists from around the world cheered the operational deployment of the final two nanosatellites in the BRITE space astronomy mission. Canada’s BRITE-Toronto launched on June...

SFL is designing, assembling, and integrating Clusters 9 and 12 for HawkEye 360 at our facility in Toronto, while HawkEye 360 is integrating Clusters 8, 10, 11, and 13 at its own plant in Virginia under...

Two small satellites for the NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program are under development at the Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) facility in Toronto. SFL won two of the first four contracts awarded under the...

Enhancing situational awareness is the primary goal of two microsatellite missions now under development at SFL for Canada and Norway. We are nearing completion of the three-satellite Gray Jay formation...

In the previous blog discussing why microspace technologies have been key enablers for affordable and timely development of national Earth observation missions, we mentioned that certain capabilities helped...