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MONTREAL, Oct. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

-- Safety and Sustainability for the New Space Economy

NorthStar Earth & Space (NorthStar), a Canadian company with a first-in-space

mission to deliver safe and sustainable operations for the rapidly accelerating

New Space Economy, has contracted Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to build the first

three satellites of its debut "Skylark" constellation for Space Situational

Awareness (SSA) services, with Seattle, WA's LeoStella overseeing the final assembly.

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With commercial space en route to a forecast $2.7 trillion industry, new

satellites and planned mega-constellations are launching into an environment

dangerously congested with traffic and space debris. NorthStar's Skylark

constellation services are designed to revolutionize the safety of spaceflight.

NorthStar is the first commercial service to monitor space, from space, via a

constellation of satellites with dedicated optical sensors.  With a secure

data-driven 3D catalogue of the entire space environment powered by advanced

SSA analytics, NorthStar will deliver timely and precise Space Traffic Data,

Collision Avoidance and Navigation Services to the global satellite community.

"The New Space Economy depends on the safety and sustainability of space.

NorthStar, the first commercial SSA system based in space, will deliver

essential information to space operators, enabling safe navigation and

supporting global space traffic management. We are here to make space safe for

doing business, now and into the future."

– Stewart Bain, CEO and co-founder, NorthStar Earth & Space

"The Space Alliance is proud to contribute to NorthStar success. Thales Alenia

Space will bring its world class expertise in optical instruments associated to

Leostella multimission platforms to support this important mission. Skylark

materializes a first step in providing evergreen information to the satellite operators."

– Herve Derrey, CEO, Thales Alenia Space

About NorthStar Earth & Space

Founding Partners

NorthStar's investors comprise a global coalition of strategic partners,

including Telesystem Space (a co-enterprise of the Sirois family office,

Telesystem and the Roger’s Family Trust of Canada), the Space Alliance (Thales

Alenia Space and Telespazio) of Europe, KinetX (USA), the Government of Quebec

and the Government of Canada.

Skylark Mission

Starting in 2022, NorthStar will begin operation of Skylark to enable the

delivery of near real-time high fidelity tracking services, elevating

traditional SSA to the level of Space Information & Intelligence (SI(2)).

With a comprehensive view of the all near-earth orbits, Skylark's space-based

sensors will deliver precise observations of more space objects than any

current system with higher revisit frequency per object. The result is

unprecedented coverage, custody and enhanced predictive capabilities.

Earth & Space Dual Mission Constellation

Starting in 2024, NorthStar plans to augment the Skylark mission with dual

mission satellites performing both SSA and Earth observation. Dual mission

satellites will be equipped with Hyperspectral, Infrared and Optical sensors,

which will operate continuously from space, imaging, digitizing, and analyzing

the details of Earth's ecosystems and surrounding orbits daily.

The NorthStar Platform used for Skylark will expand to include Earth data to

deliver contextualized information solutions directly to end users in the

private and public sectors, providing critical knowledge about Earth and its

orbital environment.

Website: https://northstar-data.com/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NSEarthandSpace 

Information: media@northstar-data.com

SOURCE: NorthStar Earth & Space Inc.