Turion’s DROID.002 satellite build completed in November 2024. Photo: PR Newswire via Veteran Ventures Capital

Turion Space won a $32.6 million fixed-price contract to build three satellites for the Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) with multiple payloads and real-time command and control. 

Under the contract announced Dec. 18, Turion Space will rapidly build three satellites with rendezvous proximity operations high-resolution, satellite-to-satellite imagery collection capabilities. 

The work is expected to be completed by Oct. 31, 2028. The company is awarded $8 million in fiscal year 2025 for research and development. 

Turion Space, based in Irvine, California, is developing autonomous spacecraft to provide in-space services including space domain awareness, deorbiting defunct satellites, and in-orbit inspections and repairs. 

The company launched its first satellite, Droid.001, in June of 2023. It is a 32-kilogram spacecraft to collect space situational awareness data, and this data has been integrated into the U.S. Space Force’s Unified Data Library.