Alén Space

Alén Space designs, builds and operates small satellites. It also provides services for end-to-end space missions. It has worked on communication and asset tracking missions since 2008.

The company says it has worked with over 60 companies, space agencies and organisations, and has a presence in more than 25 countries. It states a 100 percent success rate in the missions it has taken part in. Its working method follows the standards of the European Space Agency and the European Cooperation for Space Standardization.

Alén Space offers turnkey services for space projects. It covers mission design, which includes system architecture, planning of the mission phases, on-board software set-up and satellite design. It also covers the assembly, integration and verification phase, and support for operations. It guides clients from the first idea to the launch and the monitoring of a satellite or constellation.

Its products include 3U, 6U and 12U satellite platforms. It also sells a multi-app payload, an S-band transceiver, an AIS payload and an ADS-B payload. Other products are the Dara on-board computer, the TREVO and TOTEM software defined radios and the GS-KIT ground station for S-band. Clients can choose pre-set products or custom solutions.

The company lists four main application areas. These are the Internet of Things and communications, space-based aircraft tracking with ADS-B, maritime communications with AIS and VDES, and university and science missions.

Recent missions include CubeISL with the German space agency DLR and Celeste with the European Space Agency. In the Draconis mission for Sateliot, five satellites built by Alén Space launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, California. The mission aims to provide 5G NTN IoT services.

Services

• Small satellite design
• Satellite manufacturing
• Satellite operations
• Mission design
• Satellite platforms
• Satellite payloads
• On-board computers
• Software defined radios
• Ground segment
• Assembly, integration and verification