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Dawn Aerospace<\/strong> has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indian satellite company OrbitAID<\/strong> Aerospace Private at the Bremen Space Tech Expo, underscoring the growing interest in on-orbit refueling and green propulsion. This signing comes just one week after the DFT-Passive port (Docking and Fluid Transfer) completed environmental qualification.<\/p>\n OrbitAID is developing propellant tanker satellites equipped with advanced systems to enable on-orbit refueling. At the core of this capability is their Standard Interface for Docking and Refueling Port (S.I.D.R.P.), a TRL 7-rated docking and refueling technology. Under this MOU, OrbitAID has expressed strong interest in leveraging Dawn\u2019s propulsion and capabilities due to strong synergies with OrbitAID\u2019s propellant tanker satellites for LEO<\/strong>, GEO<\/strong>, cis-Lunar, and interplanetary missions.<\/p>\n \u201cRefueling in orbit is a game-changer for satellite operations,<\/em>\u201d said <\/strong>Nikhil<\/strong>, COO of OrbitAID.<\/strong> \u201cBy collaborating with Dawn Aerospace, we\u2019re accelerating our mission to deliver innovative, sustainable solutions that expand operational possibilities for spacecrafts. Through this partnership, OrbitAID is promoting inter-operability of refueling systems to promote and establish a thriving on-orbit refueling ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n The MOU was signed at the Space Tech Expo Europe by <\/strong>Jeroen Wink<\/strong>, Chief Revenue Officer of Dawn Aerospace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis partnership is a testament to the growing industry demand for in-orbit refueling,<\/em>\u201d said Jeroen Wink, CRO of Dawn Aerospace.<\/strong> \u201cOrbitAID\u2019s vision for propellant tanker spacecraft operations aligns perfectly with our DFT-Passive Port capabilities integral to enabling any Dawn satellite propulsion system to leverage future refueling on-orbit operations from providers such as OrbitAID.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dawn Aerospace has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indian satellite company OrbitAID Aerospace Private at the Bremen Space Tech Expo, underscoring the growing interest in on-orbit refueling and green propulsion. This signing comes just one week after the DFT-Passive port (Docking and Fluid Transfer) completed environmental qualification. OrbitAID is developing propellant tanker satellites equipped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,38,20],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-leo","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}