{"id":242190,"date":"2026-08-04T09:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/kreios-space-to-fly-vleo-demonstration-in-nanoavionics-bus"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:05:25","slug":"kreios-space-to-fly-vleo-demonstration-in-nanoavionics-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/kreios-space-to-fly-vleo-demonstration-in-nanoavionics-bus","title":{"rendered":"Kreios Space to fly VLEO demonstration in NanoAvionics bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kreios-space-to-fly-vleo-demonstration-in-nanoavionics-bus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Spanish startup Kreios Space announced plans Aug. 4 to conduct the first very low Earth orbit (VLEO) demonstration of its air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) in a Kongsberg NanoAvionics microsatellite bus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartnering with NanoAvionics in our first in-orbit flight provides us with a satellite bus and market-leading experience necessary to allow us to test our new technology in confidence,\u201d Kreios CEO Adri\u00e1n Senar said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Senar declined to comment on the timing of the flight. Kreios\u2019 website says the \u201cthe first-ever ABEP-based VLEO mission,\u201d will occur in 2027 with a second flight in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Spanish startup Kreios Space announced plans Aug. 4 to conduct the first very low Earth orbit (VLEO) demonstration of its air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) in a Kongsberg NanoAvionics microsatellite bus. \u201cPartnering with NanoAvionics in our first in-orbit flight provides us with a satellite bus and market-leading experience necessary to allow us to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}