Developing COTS solutions for orbital and suborbital platforms.
Overview
| Company | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Ontario |
| Founded | 2020 |
| Founder(s) | John Hartley, Javier Romualdez, Steven Li |
| Ownership | Private |
| Media | ||
|---|---|---|
| Website | WellFound |
Description
StarSpec Technologies is a hardware manufacturing company that spun out of the University of Toronto. It specializes in everything required to plan a satellite project, manufacture, test, and operate it in space. From their headquarters in Cambridge, Ontario, they guide clients through every step of the process.
StarSpec produce three plug-and-play satellite modules: a space telescope, for Earth observation, and for space certification. They also produce a wide range of technologies to improve stratospheric balloons such as a rotator, a tracked parachute data recovery system, a telemetry API system, customized and multi-payload gondolas capable of up to 500 kg loads, and a precision gondola pointing technology. Their power system can be integrated into satellite or balloon craft.
The development of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (a.k.a. COTS) products are widely considered an important step in improving space economics. By building a standardized platform, clients benefit from tried and true technology and economies of scale. In addition to lowering costs, lowering barriers to entry makes balloon- and satellite-based activities available to a wider range of clients. By controlling the entire production chain from planning to operations, improvements made in any area cascade across the entire system.
Recent News & Updates
October 4, 2022
StarSpec moves to a new facility for assembly, manufacturing and testing.
Started by #UTIAS alum, Javier Romualdez, StarSpec Technologies is the satellite and space hardware company that commissioned Canada’s first fully commercial suborbital and space-based assembly, manufacturing, and testing facility. 🙌 https://t.co/Q5Mh91bVyb #spacetech pic.twitter.com/pl07B7SoZt
— U of T Institute for Aerospace Studies (@UTIAS) October 4, 2022
August 8, 2021
StarSpec's list of projects is impressive and includes this one with NASA.
StarSpec was officially contracted to join a NASA-led project aimed to gather data on distant planets and potentially discover whether life is viable beyond the reaches of our solar system. #CDNtech https://t.co/7jKknfIG3d
— BetaKit (@BetaKit) August 8, 2021
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