A Boston company turned liquid salt into satellite propulsion. Now the business once called Accion Systems is taking its small-engine ambitions into larger space systems and a $19.98 million Air Force development contract.
Hedron bet that the most valuable part of a satellite image might be the minutes saved getting it to Earth. Its proposed relay network made a sharp promise: let orbiting sensors keep their radios, then give their data a faster way home.
The Virginia spacecraft supplier spent 13 years turning radiation-tolerant power, batteries and computers into configurable products. Its March 2026 sale to Trident shows what happens when a small engineering shop makes the least glamorous parts of a satellite easier to buy.