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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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