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Dawn Aerospace
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Space transportation and propulsion company with offices in New Zealand and the Netherlands. EO-Atlas relevance is ancillary: non-toxic in-space propulsion, refuellable spacecraft infrastructure, and reusable suborbital spaceplane flights that may support payload testing and spaceflight technology demonstration rather than direct Earth-observation data products.
Dawn Aerospace is a space transportation and spacecraft propulsion company founded in 2017, with operations across New Zealand, the Netherlands, France and the United States.[1] The company develops non-toxic, nitrous-oxide and propylene chemical propulsion systems for satellites and reusable suborbital launch vehicles.
The SatDrive is a turn-key propulsion system for satellites in the roughly 30 kg to 500+ kg class, integrating thrusters, tanks, valves and control electronics.[2] The CubeDrive is a 0.8U integrated unit for CubeSat-class spacecraft.[3] B-series thrusters span the 1 N, 5 N, 20 N and 200 N thrust classes.[4] As of May 2026, Dawn Heritage page records 207 thrusters operating on 51 satellites in orbit, including 22 SatDrive and 12 CubeDrive systems.[5] Customers include Pixxel, Sidus Space, Blue Canyon Technologies and BRIN, among others, and its propulsion systems are used on Earth-observation satellites alongside other space applications.[3]
The Aurora spaceplane is a remotely piloted, reusable rocket-powered aircraft for suborbital payload campaigns. Dawn describes a top speed of Mach 3.7, a maximum altitude of 100 km, a 15 kg payload capacity and a four-hour turnaround time on the dedicated Spaceplane page;[6] the Dawn homepage quotes 10 kg payload capacity.[7] Aurora has carried the Arizona State University LEO-TIMS thermal-infrared camera on an Earth-imaging flight[8] and the Scout Space Morning Sparrow space-domain-awareness payload on a surveillance test flight.[9]
Dawn Aerospace's relevance to Earth observation is ancillary: its propulsion systems enable satellite orbital manoeuvring and deorbit for EO spacecraft operators, while Aurora provides a suborbital platform for payload testing and sensor demonstration.
Launch services
- [1]About - Dawn Aerospaceoperator marketing-2026-06-10
- [2]DA18 SatDrive Brochure 20240304operator datasheet2024-03-042026-06-10
- [3]In-Space Propulsion - Dawn Aerospaceoperator marketing-2026-06-10
- [4]In-Space Propulsion - Thrusters - Dawn Aerospaceoperator marketing-2026-06-10
- [5]In-Space Propulsion Heritage - Dawn Aerospaceoperator marketing2026-05-042026-06-10
- [6]Aurora Spaceplane - Dawn Aerospaceoperator marketing-2026-06-10
- [7]Dawn Aerospace official websiteoperator marketing-2026-06-10
- [8]Arizona State University LEO-TIMS Camera Flight on Aurora Spaceplaneoperator press2026-02-192026-06-10
- [9]Scout Space and Dawn Aerospace Complete First Suborbital Spaceplane Surveillance Test Flightoperator press2025-08-062026-06-10
- [10]Legal - Dawn Aerospaceoperator marketing2026-02-012026-06-10
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Dawn Aerospace. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/companies/dawn-aerospace (CC BY 4.0)
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@misc{eoatlas:companies:dawn-aerospace,
title = {Dawn Aerospace},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/companies/dawn-aerospace}
}