Redwire awarded contract by SpaceTech to provide avionics technology

Redwire (RDW) announced that it has been awarded a contract by SpaceTech to provide avionics technology for the European Space Agency’s Next Generation Gravity Mission satellites. The NGGM satellites are ESA’s contribution to a planned NASA and ESA Earth observation satellite constellation known as Mass Change and Geophysics International Constellation. MAGIC will combine four satellites, two NGGM satellites developed through ESA and two GRACE satellites developed through NASA and the German Aerospace Center, to measure fluctuations in Earth’s gravitational field. The planned constellation will provide unprecedented data for water management applications, including monitoring droughts, floods, ice melts, and sea level rise. Redwire’s wholly owned subsidiary, Redwire Space NV, will design and build the engineering qualification model of the spacecraft’s Instrument Control Unit. The ICU will serve as the central system for managing and controlling NGGM’s primary scientific instrument, handling data collection and processing and communication between the instrument and the satellite’s other onboard systems. The ICU will play a pivotal role in the mission’s ability to observe small variations in Earth’s gravitational field.