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Blackwing Space’s first satellite, Baby Bird, was successfully deployed as part of the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX, manifested by SEOPS. Baby Bird is the inaugural flight of our Sparrow 1U XL nanosatellite platform and is carrying payloads for Manifest Space, Celestis Memorial Spaceflights, and Melagen Labs. The spacecraft is now in orbit, beginning the next phase of commissioning and payload operations. Blackwing Space builds commercial, American-made nanosatellites that make it faster, easier, and more affordable to ship technology to orbit. Our modular platforms accelerate ideas to orbit for commercial, research, and government customers. An incredible milestone for our team, our customers, and what we’re building here in Tennessee. More updates to follow. 🐦⬛🛰️ cc: Paul Anderson, Oliver Muoto, Lara Magallanes, PhD, Valentin Bouchet, Terry Carpenter, Jonathan Hobson #BabyBird #Space30 #CommericalSpace #Nashville #TN

SpaceX is targeting October 1 for launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base for its Transporter-18 rideshare mission. Excited to see Baby Bird's deployment listed on the mission page, manifested by SEOPS Space. Baby Bird is Blackwing Space's first spacecraft - a Sparrow 1U XL built in Nashville, TN, carrying payloads from Manifest Space, Melagen Labs, and Celestis Memorial Spaceflights. We're continuing final preparations ahead of launch and looking forward to seeing Baby Bird in orbit. Grateful to the team and partners who got us here. Full mission details and deployment schedule: https://go2b.ws/sxt18 cc: Paul Anderson, Oliver Muoto, Lara Magallanes, PhD, Terry Carpenter, Valentin Bouchet, Brandon Bruce, Harry Boston, John Bruck, Chad Brinkley #SpaceX #T18 #Blackwing #CommericalSpace #Space30 #BabyBird

🐦⬛ We’re excited to announce a new collaboration between Blackwing Space and Parsimoni supporting an upcoming software rideshare mission that will give startups and technology teams a more affordable path to flight heritage and on-orbit validation for software, AI, autonomy, and edge-compute applications. A growing number of space startups are building software and compute technologies that ultimately need to operate in orbit, but getting those technologies flight-proven remains expensive and complex. Many teams can develop and test their applications extensively on the ground, yet still lack a practical way to demonstrate them on real flight hardware in the space environment. Targeting Q3 2027, the mission will host multiple independent software payloads aboard Blackwing Space’s Sparrow 2U nanosatellite using our CM5 Edge Compute Module, powered by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. By supporting multiple software payloads on a single mission, we can provide startups with a lower-cost way to run their applications in low Earth orbit, validate performance, and establish flight heritage without taking on the cost and complexity of a traditional satellite mission. Parsimoni SpaceOS will serve as the mission’s primary software environment, supporting customer onboarding, software integration, testing, deployment, and application management, while Blackwing Space will provide the spacecraft, compute hardware, launch services, licensing, mission operations, and mission operations API. If you are building space software, AI, autonomy, edge computing, data processing, cybersecurity, or another software-defined capability and need an affordable path to demonstrate it in orbit, we would welcome a conversation. We are now accepting reservations for a limited number of software payload slots. Reserve your spot👉 https://lnkd.in/g3Fidy3G Fly early. Fly often. Fly Blackwing. cc: Paul Anderson, Oliver Muoto, Lara Magallanes, PhD, Terry Carpenter, Valentin Bouchet, Miklos Tomka, Thomas Gazagnaire The CM5 Edge Compute Module was developed for Blackwing Space by Manuel Imboden of Build a CubeSat, based on Pierluigi Colangeli’s open-source CM5 MINIMA REV2 design and adapted for Blackwing Space’s Sparrow payload interface. The design will be released under the CERN Open Hardware License v2. #CommercialSpace #Space30 #OnOrbitCompute #EdgeComputing #Nanosatellites #RaspberryPi

🐦⬛ Blackwing Space is heading to Salt Lake City for the 40th Annual Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat), August 23–26. We’re heading into SmallSat excited and busy. Our first nanosatellite build, Baby Bird, is fully integrated and has completed environmental testing ahead of its October launch, and we’re beginning builds for customer missions in 2027. At Blackwing Space, we’re building commercial, American-made nanosatellite platforms designed to lower the cost and complexity of getting payloads to space. Our goal is simple: make access to orbit faster, more affordable, and more practical for commercial, government, and research teams building what comes next in the Space 3.0 economy. At SmallSat, we’re especially interested in meeting companies planning to fly hardware or software in 2027, validate new technology on orbit, or begin deploying proliferated constellations. If you have next-generation space technology that needs to get to orbit, come find us in Salt Lake City. We’re booking 2027–2028 missions now. Let’s connect on how our dedicated nanosatellite platforms can accommodate your payload and give you flexibility that a hosted payload opportunity cannot. Fly early. Fly often. Fly Blackwing. cc: Paul Anderson, Oliver Muoto, Lara Magallanes, PhD, Terry Carpenter, Valentin Bouchet #SmallSat2026 #BlackwingSpace #SmallSat #Nanosatellites #CommercialSpace

Baby Bird successfully completed vibration testing yesterday at Applied Technical Services, LLC in Marietta, Georgia. 🐦⬛ The integrated spacecraft went through launch-level vibration testing, followed by functional checkouts to confirm the satellite and Manifest Space payload remained healthy and operating as expected. A successful day and another major milestone for the Blackwing Space and Manifest Space teams. Next stop, TVAC. Fly early. Fly often. Fly Blackwing. cc: Paul Anderson, Oliver Muoto, Lara Magallanes, PhD, Terry Carpenter, Valentin Bouchet, Manifest Space #BlackwingSpace #ManifestSpace #BabyBird #VIBE #CommercialSpace #Space30

Under the Federal Communications Commission’s five-year disposal rule, satellites operating in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) must generally be disposed of as soon as practicable, and no later than five years after the end of mission. For many small satellites, meeting that requirement is harder than it sounds. During the FCC application process, our orbital lifetime analysis showed that a standalone 1U nanosatellite in the planned configuration could remain in orbit for approximately nine years. Small does not automatically mean short-lived, and operating below 600 kilometers does not automatically mean compliant. To address this challenge for our Baby Bird nanosatellite, we integrated a compact deorbit device from our partner Apogeo Space into the modular architecture of our standard Sparrow 1U XL platform. Designed specifically for SWaP-constrained nanosatellites, the module adds accelerated deorbit capability with minimal impact on spacecraft volume and integration complexity. Our modular design enabled us to rapidly integrate this device into our platform in under 48 hours without bespoke redesign. The deorbit capability is available now as an option for Blackwing Space nanosatellite builds, and we are also working to make this specialized technology more broadly accessible to other small satellite teams. Feel free to reach out if you are planning a nanosatellite mission and want to learn more about the deorbit device and its capability, integration options, or flying it as part of your Blackwing Space mission. Fly early. Fly often. Fly Blackwing. Deorbit responsibly. cc: Paul Anderson, Oliver Muoto, Lara Magallanes, PhD, Terry Carpenter, Valentin Bouchet, Guido Parissenti, #CommercialSpace #Space30 #CubeSat #Nanosatellites #OrbitalDebris #SpaceSustainability