BIFROST Danish-Swedish Surveillance Spacecraft Achieves Key Milestone: Successfully Passes Flight Acceptance Review

Aalborg, April 30, 2025 – A great milestone has been achieved. Space Inventor is proud to announce that the joined Danish-Swedish BIFROST mission has made significant progress and successfully passed the pivotal Flight Acceptance Review (FAR). BIFROST, a collaborative effort between Danish and Swedish companies, funded by DALO under the Danish Ministry of Defense and FMV under the Swedish Ministry of Defense, aims to demonstrate the feasibility of an AI-based surveillance satellite.

Scheduled for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in June 2025, BIFROST represents a pioneering fusion of artificial intelligence, advanced sensing, inter-satellite communication, and versatile spacecraft design. Key objectives of the mission include demonstrating technologies related to space-based surveillance, target recognition, and real-time reporting from any orbital location.

Designed for the Danish and Swedish Ministries of Defense, the BIFROST satellite will conduct essential tests on AI-based target detection from space, along with real-time communication capabilities via relay satellites - showcasing tactical Earth observation capabilities.

BIFROST will demonstrate key technologies that may enhance Denmark and Sweden’s ability to gain real-time, AI-powered situational awareness. This advanced satellite surveillance will provide critical insights into regional activity, improving response capabilities and fostering international cooperation in space-based monitoring and data sharing.

"This successful Flight Acceptance Review highlights the strength of our Nordic collaboration — uniting the space industry, academia, and defense in pursuit of next-generation space capabilities. BIFROST is built on our new microsatellite platform and serves as a cost-efficient, modular, and technologically versatile demonstrator— designed for substantial payload capacity, rapid adaptation and a wide range of mission profiles. We believe it will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of satellite surveillance, not least in the Arctic and across the Nordic region. The mission will showcase responsive, real-time situational awareness from orbit." stated Karl Kaas, CEO and founder of Space Inventor.
 

For further details, please contact:
Jan Smolders
Chief Commercial Officer, Space Inventor
jan.smolders@space-inventor.com