Single or multiple payloads are easily accommodated by the externally accessible modular payload deck. Six and eight sided structure designs with honeycomb panels and aluminum frames are used that can easily be re-sized in height and diameter as needed to accommodate customer mission requirements. Discover the vessels particulars, including capacity, machinery, photos and ownership. Field Programmable Gate Arrays are used extensively to provide re-programmability and to reduce parts count. Vessel LEO STAR is a Oil Products Tanker, Registered in Thailand. The LEOStar-3 architecture utilizes open frame avionics with standard backplane configurations (e.g., cPCI), and externally accessible open payload areas with simple bolt-on structural and open architecture electrical interfaces. It is optimized for LEO missions, but can be configured to support deep-space/interplanetary, MEO, HEO, or GEO applications. The LEOStar-3 is featured in NASA Goddard’s Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) catalog. This modularization and design re-use concept has resulted in shorter schedule times and reduced risk. For each new contract, Orbital selects the flight-proven core-design best matched for the specific mission, then scales, adapts, and optimizes the design for the mission’s needs. Originated to support long-life missions, the standard, modular bus design incorporates improvements and upgrades from Orbital's subsequent bus developments and their highly successful missions.
The LEOStar-3 spacecraft is the most capable of Orbital’s buses. And system testing performed in one of Orbital's two 135,000 square foot satellite manufacturing facilities (Arizona and Virginia)