Polish manufacturer of optical systems Scanway Space continues international expansion, having received a contract from the American company Intuitive Machines. As part of the agreement, Scanway will supply a multispectral telescope for mapping the surface of the Moon. The launch of the device is scheduled for 2026 year, and it will allow the search for lunar minerals, in particular, ilmenite is a titanium compound, iron and oxygen, which could be useful for building colonies on the moon.
Earlier this year, Scanway signed a contract with the European Space Agency (THIS) on the development of a multispectral data processing system, which will work with lunar pictures, obtained using the Intuitive Machines optical device.
The enterprise is actively increasing production volumes: for the first half of the year 2025 year, its revenue was 11,6 million zlotys ($3,2 million), what on 119% more, than for the same period of the previous year.
Among the company's new international contracts:
- development of telescopes to detect methane from orbit for the South Korean company Nara Space;
- contract for $9 million — the largest in Scanway's history — for a high-resolution Earth observation telescope system for a customer in Southeast Asia;
- an agreement with the Danish satellite manufacturer Space Inventor to create a telescope for asteroseismological observations;
- supply of cameras for inspection systems, in particular for docking satellites, for customers in Lithuania;
- telescope development for the German startup Marble Imaging, who plans to create a group with 200 satellites.
On the domestic market, Scanway participates in the implementation of the European CAMILA project (Country Awareness Mission in Land Analysis) worth 59 million euros, which is funded by ESA and performed under the direction of Creotech Instruments. The company also supplies telescopes for the first Polish military satellite group PIAST, which is being developed for the Ministry of National Defense of Poland.
In September, Scanway presented its development strategy for 2026-2028, which involves consolidating the company's position as one of the largest integrators of optical payloads in Europe.
Source: https://spacenews.com