Company:EnduroSat

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EnduroSat AD
TypePrivate
IndustryAerospace engineering
FoundedTemplate:Start year and age
FounderRaycho Raychev
Headquarters
Sofia, Bulgaria
ServicesSatellite construction and operation
Number of employees
325 (January 2026)
Websiteendurosat.com

EnduroSat AD is a Bulgarian aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Sofia.[1][2][3][4][5] It was founded in 2015 by Raycho Raychev. The company designs, builds, and operates CubeSats and Nanosatellites for commercial and scientific missions and is developing inter-satellite linking and data applications. EnduroSat was nominated as one of the top 5 small satellite start-ups.[6] EnduroSat is a member of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF)[7][8] and International Telecommunication Union (ITU).[9]

Missions

Date launched Mission name Description Notes
2018-05-21 EnduroSat One First Bulgarian CubeSat mission. The CubeSat was developed within the Space Challenges 2018 program and aimed at raising awareness on the topic of satellite communications and popularizing amateur radio activities. It was embarked on the cargo resupply mission Cygnus CRS-9 to the ISS. It was launched from Wallops Island and was deployed on 13 July 2018 via the ISS' JEM airlock. [10][11][12]
2021 SPARTAN The first Shared Sat mission, it consisted in a 6U CubeSat carrying a total of seven payloads. It was launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket as part of SpaceX Transporter-2 rideshare mission. [13][14]
2022 Platform 1
(SharedSat 2141)		 Second 6U Shared Sat mission that included an electric propulsion demonstration for Hypernova Space Technologies and the Edge computing payload from IBM. It was launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket as part of SpaceX Transporter-5 mission. [15][16][17]
2023 Platform 2
(SharedSat 2211)		 Tt included a space weather payload from Mission Space and two space propulsion demonstrations, one from Magdrive and one from Hypernova Space Technologies. It was launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket as part of SpaceX Transporter-6 mission. [18][19][20][21]
2023 TAIFA-1 Built on behalf of the Kenyan Space Agency and SayariLabs, it is a 3U cubesat equipped with a hyperspectral Earth observation camera intended to provide disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities. It was launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket as part of SpaceX Transporter-7 mission. [22][23]
2023 Platform 5 Shared Sat mission. No details have been released so far about the payloads hosted on this cubesats. It was launched as part of SpaceX Transporter-9 rideshare mission. [24]
2023 OSW Cazorla 3U CubeSats built for Odyssey SpaceWorks, a company specialized in operating satellites that house miniaturized R&D labs. This first satellite hosted two labs: one contained a bioreactor to grow multiple independent cultures of animal muscle tissue built by the Kaplan Lab at Tufts University, and one contained sensors made by Physical Synthesis tested in high stress environments. It was launched as part of SpaceX Transporter-9 rideshare mission. [24][25]
2023 Barry (B1B2) 12U demonstrator for Rogue Space Systems' constellation of orbital robots for close-up inspection and assistance. This first satellite validates a variety of hardware and software technologies, including Rogue’s Scalable Compute Platform (SCP). It was launched as part of SpaceX Transporter-9 rideshare mission. [24][26]
2023 PEARL-1C, 1H Two 6U CubeSats for Foxconn. They serve as demonstrators for their planned LEO broadband communications satellites and their beyond 5G (B5G) capabilities. They were launched on as part of SpaceX Transporter-9 rideshare mission. [24][27][28]
21 December 2026 CTC 0 8U cubesat built for Space Telecommunications Inc. to test direct-to-device connectivity outside of the United States. It was launched as part SpaceX Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission [29]
14 January 2025 Balkan Constellation Earth-observation satellites aiming to contribute to the European Copernicus programme. [30][31][32][33][34]
15 March 2025 BOTSAT-1 3U cubesat built for the Botswana International University of Science and Technology. The satellite hosts an hyperspectral sensor to gather ground composition data to support mining and agriculture businesses in the country. It was launched as part of the SpaceX Transporter-13 mission. [35]
23 June 2025 Hubble 6, 7 16U cubesats built for Hubble Network nicknamed Lilo and Stitch. They were launched on 23 June 2025 as paer of the SpaceX Transporter-14 mission and joined an already existing constellation of Hubble cubesats based on the Lemur-2 platform. They are meant to provide connectivity to any Bluetooth-enabled device on the ground, even those without cellular reception. [36]
3 May 2026 ICARUS 2.0 Five CubeSats for a German initiative tracking animal migrations from space [37][38]
2026 (planned) Platform 6 6U technology demonstration CubeSat to be launched on Isar Aerospace's second flight of the Spectrum rocket in 2026 [39][40][41]

See also

  • Satellites of Bulgaria

References

  1. ↑ Rainbow, Jason (2025-05-27). "EnduroSat raises $49 million to mass produce larger satellites" (in en-US). SpaceNews. https://spacenews.com/endurosat-raises-49-million-to-mass-produce-larger-satellites/. 
  2. ↑ Rainbow, Jason (2024-11-25). "EnduroSat orders 100 Enpulsion propulsion systems" (in en-US). SpaceNews. https://spacenews.com/endurosat-orders-100-enpulsion-propulsion-systems/. 
  3. ↑ "EnduroSat: Empowering space access" (in en). https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/ESA_Young_Professionals_Satellites/EnduroSat_Empowering_space_access. 
  4. ↑ "Exclusif. Le Bulgare EnduroSat s'installe à Toulouse avec ses satellites partagés" (in fr). 2022-07-05. https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises/business/2022-07-05/exclusif-le-bulgare-endurosat-s-installe-a-toulouse-avec-ses-satellites-partages-924465.html?id=2015476154876415. 
  5. ↑ "EnduroSat secures $104M to expand production of advanced small satellites" (in en-GB). 2025-10-31. https://tech.eu/2025/10/31/endurosat-secures-104m-to-expand-production-of-advanced-small-satellites/. 
  6. ↑ "5 Top Emerging Small Satellite Startups Research" (in en-US). 2020-08-20. https://www.startus-insights.com/innovators-guide/5-top-emerging-small-satellite-startups/. 
  7. ↑ "ReOrbit and EnduroSat sign contract to demonstrate on-orbit capabilities - Reorbit". https://www.reorbit.space/resources/press-releases/reorbit-and-endurosat-sign-contract-to-demonstrate-on-orbit-capabilities. 
  8. ↑ "Bulgaria: EIB invests €10 million in new space scaleup EnduroSat" (in en). https://www.eib.org/en/press/all/2021-291-eib-invests-eur10-million-in-new-space-scaleup-endurosat. 
  9. ↑ EnduroSat (2022-04-05). "Proud member of ITU" (in en-US). https://www.endurosat.com/news/proud-member-of-itu/. 
  10. ↑ "EnduroSat One" (in en). https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/endurosat-a.htm. 
  11. ↑ Kolev, A.; Ivanov, I.; Nedelev, I.; Danchev, V. (2019-02-26). "EnduroSat one - The first Bulgarian CubeSat mission". AIP Conference Proceedings 2075 (1): 160010. doi:10.1063/1.5091337. ISSN 0094-243X. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5091337. 
  12. ↑ "EnduroSat One". EnduroSat. https://one.endurosat.com/. 
  13. ↑ "Space operations redefined – Our Shared Satellite Service is ON". EnduroSat (Press release). 10 July 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  14. ↑ "Commercial space services redefined". EnduroSat. 1 July 2021. https://www.endurosat.com/news/commercial-space-services-redefined/. 
  15. ↑ "Next gen small satellite propulsion flying on our Shared Sat service". EnduroSat (Press release). 17 November 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  16. ↑ "Edge Computing in Space by IBM". EnduroSat (Press release). 15 December 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  17. ↑ "Platform-1 in Space". EnduroSat (Press release). 26 May 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  18. ↑ "EnduroSat & Mission Space redefine space weather data infrastructure". EnduroSat (Press release). 20 January 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  19. ↑ "Magdrive to unleash their next-gen spacecraft propulsion via EnduroSat's Space Service". EnduroSat (Press release). 21 November 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  20. ↑ "Hypernova to test cutting-edge propulsion via EnduroSat's Space Service". EnduroSat (Press release). 8 December 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  21. ↑ "Platform-2 is in orbit". EnduroSpace (Press release). 4 January 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  22. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named transporter-7
  23. ↑ "TAIFA-1 – First Kenyan software-defined NanoSat". EnduroSat. 25 January 2023. https://www.endurosat.com/news/taifa-1-kenyan-nanosat/. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 Lentz, Danny (11 November 2023). "SpaceX Transporter 9 rideshare features new OTV from Tom Mueller’s Impulse Space". NASASpaceFlight. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/11/transporter-9/. 
  25. ↑ "OSW Cazorla". Nanosats Database. https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/platform-5. 
  26. ↑ "Barry (B1B2, Laura Orbot, Orbital Robot)". Nanosats Database. https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/rogue-space. 
  27. ↑ "An Introduction to PEARL CubeSat Mission". https://www.tasa.org.tw/activity/iCASE/2021/download/FULL-icase2021_FINAL_Name_Change/SPC-02-iCASE2021-FULL-AB109-3YA4A48st2.PDF. 
  28. ↑ "Electronics giant, Foxconn, awards Exolaunch with contract to deploy the group's first satellites". Foxconn (Press release). 6 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  29. ↑ Krebs, Gunter. "CTC 0". Gunter's Space Page. https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ctc-0.htm. 
  30. ↑ "The Balkan Constellation" (in en-US). https://www.endurosat.com/projects/the-balkan-constellation/. 
  31. ↑ "Track BALKAN-1 (NORAD ID: 62611) live with Satcat" (in en). https://www.satcat.com/sats/62611. 
  32. ↑ "CIRA - Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali" (in en-US). https://www.cira.it/. 
  33. ↑ "Balkan-1 to bring AI-powered technologies to Copernicus – Rapid Response Desk". https://www.rapidresponse.copernicus.eu/balkan-1-to-bring-ai-powered-technologies-to-copernicus/. 
  34. ↑ "The first of 120: What the Bulgarian Balkan-1 nanosatellite looks like and what it can do" (in en-US). 2025-01-15. https://h512.com/digest/endurosat-balkan-constellation-nanosatellite-dc06/. 
  35. ↑ "BOTSAT-1 To Become Botswana's First Software-Defined Satellite". EnduroSat (Press release). 3 July 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
  36. ↑ Krebs, Gunther. "Hubble 6,7". Gunter's Space Page. https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/hubble-6.htm. 
  37. ↑ Müller, Saskia (2026-01-16). "Talos and Endurosat are driving Icarus 2.0 forward" (in en-US). https://www.munich-startup.de/en/116111/talos-is-developing-the-internet-of-animals-with-endurosat/. 
  38. ↑ "CAS500-2 Mission" (in en). https://www.spacex.com/launches/cas500-2. 
  39. ↑ Kulu, Erik. "Platform-6" (in en). https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/platform-6.html. 
  40. ↑ "Isar Aerospace" (in en). https://isaraerospace.com/mission-2. 
  41. ↑ "Isar Aerospace Onward and Upward Spectrum Rocket Launch" (in en-us). 2026-01-21. https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/spectrum-onward-and-upward/. 



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