Sherbrooke, Quebec developer of guidance, navigation and control software and artificial-vision systems for autonomous spacecraft, aircraft and ground vehicles, with flight heritage on European Space Agency missions.
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Sherbrooke, Quebec developer of guidance, navigation and control software and artificial-vision systems for autonomous spacecraft, aircraft and ground vehicles, with flight heritage on European Space Agency missions.
States its technology was first used in the lunar environment aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, which landed on the Moon on 2 March 2025. ngcaerospace.com
Its attitude and orbit control technology flew on the European Space Agency's Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B Earth observation satellites. ngcaerospace.com
Autonomous onboard software flew on ESA's PROBA-1, PROBA-2 and PROBA-Vegetation satellites, and the company marked the launch of the Proba-3 pair. ngcaerospace.com
Partnered with Canadensys Aerospace to design Canada's next lunar rover mission. ngcaerospace.com
Runs Aerial Systems as one of three named domains, supplying an autopilot for aircraft "from multicopters to fixed-wing" covering takeoff, climb, cruise, transition, approach and landing. ngcaerospace.com
Builds Detect and Avoid that detects, tracks and avoids obstacles around the aircraft to enable beyond-visual-line-of-sight missions, plus landing-zone assessment. ngcaerospace.com
Its crater-based absolute navigation flew on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 in 2025, providing position measurements accurate to 100 m or better from altitudes between 50 km and 20 km. ngcaerospace.com
Founder Jean de Lafontaine is still President and CEO. No parent company is named anywhere on its site and no acquisition was found. ngcaerospace.com
Products NGC Aerospace publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Flight control
Autopilot capable of operating on aircraft from multicopter to fixed-wing, offering levels of automation from pilot-assist manoeuvres to fully automatic missions across takeoff, cruise, transition and landing.
Learn moreFlight safety
Detects, tracks and avoids potential collisions with obstacles, intended to enable beyond-visual-line-of-sight operation. No airworthiness certification is claimed.
Learn moreFlight safety
Provides real-time information about hazards and safe areas in a prospective landing zone.
Learn moreSpacecraft software
Autonomy-enabling satellite flight software with onboard intelligence intended to minimise ground intervention, with matching on-ground simulators for design and validation.
Learn moreExploration GNC
Guidance, navigation and control software for planetary exploration covering cruise, de-orbiting, descent and touchdown, including terrain-relative optical navigation and hazard detection and avoidance.
Learn moreHow NGC Aerospace says its technology can be deployed and delivered.
Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.
Class Grant and Contribution Program for Space Science and Technology, Canadian Space Agency (lidar, camera and IMU hazard detection for commercial lunar landers) - contribution
Class Grant and Contribution Program, Canadian Space Agency (lightweight camera-navigation and lidar lunar landing system) - contribution
Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.
Jean de Lafontaine
Founder
Terms the company uses about its own work.
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