SpaceQuest, Ltd.

SpaceQuest, Ltd.

SpaceQuest Logo
Type	Private
Industry	spacecraft, engineering, computer hardware, consulting ground systems
Founded	1994
Headquarters	Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Key people	Dr. Dino Lorenzini, Chairman & CEO Mark Kanawati, Vice President
Products	spacecraft and spacecraft components
Number of employees	10 (2014)
Slogan	"We're Bringing the Cost of Low-Earth Orbit Satellites Down To Earth"
Website	http://www.spacequest.com/

SpaceQuest, Ltd. is a spacecraft components and engineering company located in Fairfax, Virginia, which focuses on the operations of small satellites.

The company designs, develops, constructs, launches and operates microsatellites and spacecraft components. SpaceQuest qualifies its components for use in space by flying them on its own satellites. They also operate a fleet of low earth orbiting satellites, which are used for remote monitoring as well as tracking the location and status of large vessels at sea.

SpaceQuest's customers include US and foreign universities, NASA, the US Air Force, the Canadian Space Agency, commercial aerospace companies, and foreign developers of microsatellites. Some of their projects include:

• FalconSAT 3 & 5, satellites developed by cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
• AprizeSat 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 commercial communications satellites for SpaceQuest .
• ExactView 6,7
• AO-51, amateur radio satellite.
• Genesis I and Genesis II, inflatable space habitats Bigelow Aerospace.

External links

• SpaceQuest website