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Stop Satellite Solutions Signs Dnepr Launch Agreement
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Stop Satellite Solutions, Inc. (OSSS), Ogden, Utah, has signed a
memorandum of understanding with International Space Company (ISC)
Kosmotras, Moscow, and Thiokol Propulsion, Brigham City, Utah.
Under this memorandum of understanding, ISC Kosmotras will provide
relatively inexpensive launch opportunities using the Dnepr Launch
Vehicle. OSSS will provide management and integration of small
satellites into a single payload module
utilizing the OSSS multi-payload adapted. Thiokol will provide
organizational and legal support for the joint program as a
marketing agent of ISC Kosmotras.
 The
first launch under this agreement is scheduled for March 2001,
with payloads that include a satellite to demonstrate the low-cost
space technologies developed by OSSS. The agreement also calls for
ISC Kosmotras to allocate one Dnepr launch per year to OSSS from
2001 through 2007.
 OSSS
is a four-year old company that has commercialized technology
developed at the Center for Aerospace Technology (CAST) at Weber
State University. OSSS' mission is to provide customers with low
cost, high-quality small satellites for more effective access to
space. OSSS and CAST have successfully designed, engineered and
manufactured eight low earth orbit (LEO) satellites in the 100 to
500 pound class. OSSS demonstrated its satellite design and
manufacturing capability with the successful launch of a multi-use
group of satellites aboard a Minotaur in January of this year.
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