{"id":9113,"date":"2022-10-19T01:08:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/beyond-gravity-to-supply-power-control-and-distribution-unit-pcdu-for-loft-orbitals-satellites\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T01:08:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T17:08:56","slug":"beyond-gravity-to-supply-power-control-and-distribution-unit-pcdu-for-loft-orbitals-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/beyond-gravity-to-supply-power-control-and-distribution-unit-pcdu-for-loft-orbitals-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Gravity to Supply Power Control and Distribution Unit (PCDU) for Loft Orbital\u2019s satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/BG_Cover_638016891032459980.jpg\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Beyond Gravity to Supply Power Control and Distribution Unit (PCDU) for Loft Orbital\u2019s satellites\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/BG_Cover_638016891032459980.jpg\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/BG_Cover_638016891032459980.jpg\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>Beyond Gravity, one of the leading space systems companies has been selected to supply equipment for Loft Orbital\u2019s Longbow spacecraft based on the Airbus Arrow platform. The physical equipment is referred to as the Power Control &amp; Distribution Unit (PCDU).<\/p>\n<p>The PCDU provides mission-critical power supply capabilities and in-orbit configurability for \u201cThe Hub\u201d which carries all payloads of a Loft Orbital\u2019s satellite and provides an independent electrical, computing, and communication environment. Beyond Gravity will deliver PCDU flight units for over 15 Loft Orbital satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The project is conducted in close cooperation between Beyond Gravity\u2019s team based in Tampere (Finland), and Loft Orbital\u2019s teams in Toulouse (France) and San Francisco and Golden (USA).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cShorter lead times and high cost-efficiency\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur partnership with Loft Orbital and this order is underlining Beyond Gravity\u2019s strong standing in the global commercial New Space market. The PCDU enables Loft Orbital to be fully product-based, leading to standardization, shorter lead times, and high cost-efficiency\u201d, said Anders Linder, head of the Satellites Division at Beyond Gravity. \u201cI am grateful to our partners at Loft Orbital for selecting Beyond Gravity and excited to be working with them to support their future missions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>High degree of customization<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen looking for partners to fulfill our technical, quality, and price-performance needs, Beyond Gravity allowed us to put in a high degree of customization, meeting our stringent system-level requirements, whilst still leveraging their existing experience and translating that to a balanced New Space solution. Of equal importance is the right way to communicate and collaborate, which has been another positive experience for both teams\u201d, said Pieter van Duijn, Loft Orbital\u2019s CTO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>European ecosystem of space systems suppliers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur collaboration with Beyond Gravity demonstrates Loft Orbital\u2019s strategy to rely on the strong and competitive European ecosystem of space systems suppliers\u201d, said Emmanuelle Meric, General Manager France of Loft Orbital. \u201cWe look forward to strengthening our partnerships with leading space companies such as Beyond Gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Gravity, one of the leading space systems companies has been selected to supply equipment for Loft Orbital\u2019s Longbow spacecraft based on the Airbus Arrow platform. The physical equipment is referred to as the Power Control &amp; Distribution Unit (PCDU). The PCDU provides mission-critical power supply capabilities and in-orbit configurability for \u201cThe Hub\u201d which carries [&hellip;]<\/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":[72,27,20],"class_list":["post-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-global","tag-power-systems","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113"}],"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=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}