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Muon Space Deploys First Three Operational FireSat Satellites for Earth Fire Alliance
Spacecraft Platforms

Three variants, one architecture, designed to scale.

Muon’s Condor platforms are optimized around your mission from modular, flight-proven subsystems, pre-integrated with payload, ground, and operations.

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Platform Philosophy

Standardized, Flight-Proven Platforms Designed to Scale

Common avionics, interfaces, and operational patterns across the Condor family reduce integration risk and compress schedules.

Every core component is Muon-engineered and designed to work together from the start: not just the bus, but the payload computer, flight software, network, scheduling, and operations software.

Platform 01

Condor-M

Compact, modular, and flight-proven spacecraft engineered for rapid deployment and designed to scale.

Condor-M offers a high heritage platform that supports national security, civil, and commercial missions including maritime intelligence, wildfire detection, logistics, and agricultural monitoring. Condor-M is on orbit and ready for launch within months of contract award.

Condor-M Specifications:
Payload Mass — Up to 60 kg
Bus Mass — 100 kg
Payload Peak Power — 500 W+
Condor-M
Platform 02

Condor-XL

A higher-capacity platform for missions requiring larger instruments and more power.

Condor-XL supports defense, civil, and commercial missions including high-resolution Earth observation, RF connectivity, missile warning and tracking, and multi-sensor missions. First flight Q1 2027.

Condor-XL Specifications:
Payload Mass — Up to 300 kg
Bus Mass — 250 kg
Payload Peak Power — 4 kW+
Condor-XL
Platform 03

Condor-Ultra

Large, high power spacecraft platform engineered for networked constellations of hundreds to thousands of satellites.

Condor-Ultra is purpose-built for next-generation connectivity missions, active-ISR and compute missions. Our integrated flight, network, and ground stack enables fully autonomous constellation operations from deployment. A fully flat-stacked launch configuration maximizes satellites per launch vehicle, applying the same economic principle that made large-scale broadband constellations viable.

Condor-Ultra Specifications:
Payload Mass — 350 kg+
Bus Mass — 1,500 kg
Payload Peak Power — 20 kW+
Condor-Ultra

Platform Comparison

Full Technical Specifications

Condor-M

Compact and modular

Orbits Inclination ≥ 45°, all beta angles
Altitude 475 – 1,100 km
Payload Mass 60 kg
Payload Peak Power 0.5+ kW
Payload OAP 0.2+ kW
Daily Data Downlink 5 / 100 TB/day
Orbital Mobility 3 km/s
Bus Mass 100 kg
Pointing Knowledge 5 arcsec
Pointing Control 15 arcsec
Payload Interface Data Rate 30 Gbps
Lifetime 5+ years

Condor-XL

High capacity

Orbits Inclination ≥ 45°, all beta angles
Altitude 475 – 1,100 km
Payload Mass 300 kg
Payload Peak Power 4+ kW
Payload OAP 1+ kW
Daily Data Downlink 5 / 100 TB/day
Orbital Mobility 2 km/s
Bus Mass 250 kg
Pointing Knowledge 5 arcsec
Pointing Control 15 arcsec
Payload Interface Data Rate 30 Gbps
Lifetime 5+ years

Condor-Ultra

Next-gen

Orbits Inclination ≥ 45°, all beta angles
Altitude 475 – 1,100 km
Payload Mass 350+ kg
Payload Peak Power 20+ kW
Payload OAP 5+ kW
Daily Data Downlink 5 / 200 TB/day
Orbital Mobility 0.6 km/s
Bus Mass 1,500 kg
Pointing Knowledge 5 arcsec
Pointing Control 100 arcsec
Payload Interface Data Rate 100 Gbps
Lifetime 8+ years

Core Platform Components

Muon Subsystems Designed to Work Together Seamlessly.

PayloadCore

The payload computer for every mission. Modular payload compute and interface module, designed to fly both Muon-developed instruments and customer-furnished payloads.

RadioCore

High-throughput RF platform for spacecraft communications, built around an integrated RF system-on-a-chip with high-speed converters and onboard processing.

Starlight

The first commercially available solid-propellant Hall-effect thruster propulsion system: safe, affordable, and scalable alternative to traditional gaseous electric propulsion.

AvionicsCore

Standardized avionics and flight-software platform providing common services across missions: command and telemetry handling, power management, scheduling, data handling, bus interfacing, and GNC algorithm execution.

Muon GNC Suite

Full-stack attitude determination and control across all Condor platforms, combining in-house developed solutions with carefully selected external hardware. 5 arcsec pointing knowledge.

SecureCore

Supports missions with enhanced security requirements, with hardware and software features designed for government and defense applications.

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Three platforms. One integrated
architecture.

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