K2 SPACE CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: X224-OCSO1

Description

K2 Space is building high performance satellite platforms to leverage the capabilities of the next generation of heavy and super heavy space launch vehicles like SpaceX’s Starship.  The K2 Space platform utilizes proven technologies applied at an unprecedented scale to deliver far more payload mass, power, and propulsive capabilities than current spacecraft while reducing the cost by an order of magnitude, and greatly decreasing production and payload integration times. Our platform is not dependent on unproven or underdeveloped technologies. Instead, it builds on existing state-of-the art methods and materials from aerospace and related industries, integrating them in an innovative way - trading mass for cost - in order to build a satellite platform that provides unprecedented budgets for mass, volume, power, shielding, and propulsion, allowing engineers to rethink the design of every system to maximize for performance and cost.  The resulting standardized, modular architecture meets or exceeds any expected requirements, while reducing the cost by an order of magnitude (approximately 10x) and decreasing payload integration times by a factor of 8.