The company kicks off its second mission leveraging its Jackal Autonomous Orbital Vehicle (AOV) and Mosaic Software PlatformCENTENNIAL, Colo., Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- True Anomaly Inc ., the defense technology company developing advanced space superiority systems, announced the successful launch and command and control of its Jackal spacecraft. Nine months after its first flight test, the company's Jackal AOV was successfully deployed into orbit as part of SpaceX's Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA. Mission X-2 (MX-2) will spend the coming months conducting functional testing of Jackal in low Earth orbit while utilizing Mosaic, True Anomaly's autonomy and mission command and control software platform."The Mission X campaign proves the efficacy of Jackal and Mosaic platforms, and MX-2 is our biggest milestone yet," said Even Rogers, CEO and co-founder of True Anomaly. "Our team has worked tirelessly to execute on, and implement, system-wide hardware and software improvements over the last nine months, taking every possible learning from our first mission. The successes of MX-2 to date are a showcase of platform maturity and mission readiness."True Anomaly is designing and actively testing asymmetric defense technologies during a time of increasing competition between the US and its adversaries

WASHINGTON - Space technology firm True Anomaly has selected Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket to launch its autonomous Jackal orbital vehicle for a U.S. Space Force rapid-response demonstration mission, the companies announced Oct. 17.

True Anomaly opens spacecraft manufacturing facility in Colorado The 35,000-square-foot facility will use assembly lines to produce a fully tested, mission-ready satellite every five days.