Xplore is an American commercial space company headquartered in the Seattle area, established in 2017 to provide what it calls Space As A Service, offering hosted payloads, communication relay services and data products to customers through a fleet of networked multi mission spacecraft. The company mission is to extend robotic exploration beyond Earth through commercial missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, Lagrange points and near Earth asteroids, built around its ESPA class Xcraft spacecraft platform and its more maneuverable LightCraft platform for deep space missions. Xplore opened a satellite manufacturing facility in Redmond, Washington in May 2021 to advance its production capacity.
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1. Xplore Plans Redmond, Washington, Satellite Manufacturing Center
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Xplore Inc., a commercial space company providing Space as a Service
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Angela Birney, Mayor of the City of Redmond, added, “We are delighted that Xplore is establishing its headquarters in Redmond and employing Washington space professionals to grow the space economy.” She continued, “Redmond is a magnet for vision, technology, and talent.
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