Company:SpaceQuest

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SpaceQuest, Ltd.
TypePrivate
Industryspacecraft, engineering, computer hardware, consulting ground systems
Founded1994
HeadquartersFairfax, Virginia, United States
Key people
Dr. Dino Lorenzini, Chairman & CEO
Productsspacecraft and spacecraft components
Number of employees
10 (2019)
Websitewww.spacequest.com

SpaceQuest, Ltd. (also known as AAC SpaceQuest) is a spacecraft components and engineering company located in Fairfax, Virginia, which focuses on the operations of small satellites.

The company designs, develops, constructs, launches and operates microsatellites and spacecraft components. SpaceQuest qualifies its components for use in space by flying them on its own satellites. They also operate a fleet of low earth orbiting satellites, which are used for remote monitoring as well as tracking the location and status of large vessels at sea.[1][needs update][third-party source needed]

SpaceQuest's customers include US and foreign universities, NASA, the US Air Force, the Canadian Space Agency, commercial aerospace companies, and foreign developers of microsatellites.[1][2][third-party source needed] Some of their projects include:

On October 15, 2020, AAC Clyde Space announced that an agreement had been reached to acquire all shares in SpaceQuest Ltd. The acquisition was completed in December 2020. [5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Success Stories". SpaceQuest.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20070622164342/http://www.spacequest.com/success_stories.php. Retrieved 2007-07-03. 
  2. "SpaceQuest to Develop Bus for US Air Force Academy's Falconsat-3 and FalconSat-5 Missions" (PDF) (Press release). SpaceQuest.com. 2003-08-15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
  3. "AprizeSat". http://www.astronautix.com/a/aprizesat.html. 
  4. "January 2019" (in en-US). http://www.spacequest.com/news/2016/1/12/spacequest-newsletter-january-2016. 
  5. "AAC Clyde Space completes acquisition of U.S SpaceQuest" (in en-US). 2020-12-30. https://investor.aac-clyde.space/en/press-releases/aac-clyde-space-completes-acquisition-of-u-s-spacequest-82766. 

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