SabreSat: Redwire’s vehicle to dart through very low Earth orbit

Published on May 9, 2024



Kissimmee, Fla. – SabreSat, Redwire Space’s satellite for very low Earth orbit, looks more like a dart than a traditional spacecraft.

“As you think about aerodynamics, you want the dart to be skinny and long, not stubby and fat,” Spence Wise, Redwire senior vice president for missions and platforms, told SpaceNews.

Redwire is designing SabreSat for government intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

“You wouldn’t want to bring one of those multimillion dollar payloads into VLEO just to have it deorbit,” Wise said. “So we’re building a persistent platform capable of delivering on the customer’s needs for exquisite payloads.”

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