Tiger-7 Satellites - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft	Tiger-7
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	6U
Entity name	OQ Technology
Institution	Company
Entity	Commercial
Headquarters	Luxembourg
Manufacturer	AIVT by NanoAvionics
Launch brokerer	SEOPS
Costs	$2.4 million
Oneliner	Provide 5G coverage for IoT devices based on NB-IoT
Description	Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has received an order for three further satellites from 5G telecoms operator OQ Technology. They will be added to OQ Technology’s existing constellation, turning the company into the largest 5G NB-IoT (narrowband Internet of things) satellite operator in the world. It is NanoAvionics’s fourth contract with OQ Technology, having previously supplied Tiger-2, Tiger-3, and MACSAT missions. Through the collaboration with NanoAvionics, OQ was able to launch the world’s first commercial nanosatellite, Tiger-2 in 2021, that provided 5G coverage for IoT devices based on NB-IoT and a first expansion of their services with Tiger-3 in 2022. OQ Technology will provide the 5G payload which is based on standard 3GPP Rel. 17 technology, the OQ in-house developed cell tower stack and will take care of launch, satellite operations, spectrum licensing, service and market access. With the recent traction of direct-to-device cellular communication through satellite, OQ Technology is a pioneer in direct cellular IoT to satellite connectivity. The three 6U nanosatellites, Tiger-4, Tiger-7 and Tiger-8, will be built at NanoAvionics’s new MAIT (manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing) facility in Vilnius, Lithuania. The facility was setup to meet the demands for serial satellite production for constellations and larger satellites by commercial, civil, and governmental organisations.
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COTS subsystems	PLATFORM - NanoAvionics

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Tiger-4 (Layan-23)	Operational (News about completing commissioning and handover on 2023-08-03 as of 2023-10-31)	Falcon 9, (Transporter-8)	2023-06-12	520 km, 97.5 deg
Tiger-5	Operational (News on 2023-11-14)	Falcon 9, (Transporter-9)	2023-11-11	520 km, 97.5 deg
Tiger-6	Operational (News on 2023-11-14)	Falcon 9, (Transporter-9)	2023-11-11	520 km, 97.5 deg
Tiger-7	Operational (Contact established as per news from 2024-03-15)	Falcon 9, (Transporter-10)	2024-03-04	510 km, 97.5 deg
Tiger-8	Operational (Contact established as per news from 2024-03-15)	Falcon 9, (Transporter-10)	2024-03-04	510 km, 97.5 deg

Last modified: 2024-05-29