EnduroSat
Bulgarian aerospace manufacturer
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EnduroSat AD is a Bulgarian aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Sofia.[1][2][3][4][5] It was founded in 2015 by Raycho Raychev. The company designs, builds, and operates CubeSats and Nanosatellites for commercial and scientific missions and is developing inter-satellite linking and data applications. EnduroSat was nominated as one of the top 5 small satellite start-ups.[6] EnduroSat is a member of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)[7][8] and International Telecommunication Union (ITU).[9]
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace engineering |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Founder | Raycho Raychev |
| Headquarters | |
| Services | Satellite construction and operation |
Number of employees | 325 (January 2026) |
| Website | endurosat |
Missions
| Date launched (scheduled) | Mission name | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2018 | EnduroSat One | First Bulgarian CubeSat mission. The CubeSat was developed within the Space Challenges 2018 program and aimed at raising awareness on the topic of satellite communications and popularizing amateur radio activities. It was embarked on the cargo resupply mission Cygnus CRS-9 to the ISS. It was launched from Wallops Island and was deployed on 13 July 2018 via the ISS' JEM airlock. | [10][11][12] |
| June 30, 2021 | SPARTAN | The first Shared Sat mission, it consisted in a 6U CubeSat carrying a total of seven payloads. It was launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket as part of SpaceX Transporter-2 rideshare mission. | [13][14] |
| May 25, 2022 | Platform 1 (SharedSat 2141) | Second 6U Shared Sat mission that included an electric propulsion demonstration for Hypernova Space Technologies and the Edge computing payload from IBM. It was launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket as part of SpaceX Transporter-5 mission. | [15][16][17] |
| January 3, 2023 | Platform 2 (SharedSat 2211) | Tt included a space weather payload from Mission Space and two space propulsion demonstrations, one from Magdrive and one from Hypernova Space Technologies. It was launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket as part of SpaceX Transporter-6 mission. | [18][19][20][21] |
| April 15, 2023 | Platform 3 (Sateliot_0 Groundbreaker, 2B5GSAT) | 6U demonstrator of Sateliot's announced constellation for 5G IoT connectivity in Low Earth orbit. It was launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket as part of SpaceX Transporter-7 mission. | [22][23][24] |
| April 15, 2023 | TAIFA-1 | Built on behalf of the Kenyan Space Agency and SayariLabs, it is a 3U cubesat equipped with a hyperspectral Earth observation camera intended to provide disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities. It was launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket as part of SpaceX Transporter-7 mission. | [24][25] |
| November 11, 2023 | Platform 5 | Shared Sat mission. No details have been released so far about the payloads hosted on this cubesats. It was launched as part of SpaceX Transporter-9 rideshare mission. | [26] |
| November 11, 2023 | OSW Cazorla | 3U CubeSats built for Odyssey SpaceWorks, a company specialized in operating satellites that house miniaturized R&D labs. This first satellite hosted two labs: one contained a bioreactor to grow multiple independent cultures of animal muscle tissue built by the Kaplan Lab at Tufts University, and one contained sensors made by Physical Synthesis tested in high stress environments. It was launched as part of SpaceX Transporter-9 rideshare mission. | [26][27] |
| November 11, 2023 | Barry (B1B2) | 12U demonstrator for Rogue Space Systems' constellation of orbital robots for close-up inspection and assistance. This first satellite validates a variety of hardware and software technologies, including Rogue’s Scalable Compute Platform (SCP). It was launched as part of SpaceX Transporter-9 rideshare mission. | [26][28] |
| November 11, 2023 | PEARL-1C, 1H | Two 6U CubeSats for Foxconn. They serve as demonstrators for their planned LEO broadband communications satellites and their beyond 5G (B5G) capabilities. They were launched on as part of SpaceX Transporter-9 rideshare mission. | [26][29][30] |
| 2026 | Platform 6 | 6U technology demonstration CubeSat to be launched on Isar Aerospace's second flight of the Spectrum rocket in 2026. | [31][32][33] |
| 2026 | ICARUS 2.0 | Five CubeSats for a German initiative tracking animal migrations from space; first launch expected in 2026. | [34] |
