Spaceflight payload development services

Turnkey spaceflight equipment development
 
  •  Our team works with principal investigators early in the experiment development cycle
  •  Requirements review and agreement
  •  Engineering analysis and simulations
  •  Prototype hardware for ground-based testing in the investigator's laboratory
  •  Space-qualified hardware design and fabrication
  •  Flight hardware verification testing
  •  Systems safety engineering -- key to flight certification
  •  Mission/experiment planning, integration and management 

 

Flight integration services

  •  Ground-trainer mockup development
  •  Crew scientific familiarization and hardware training
  •  Payload integration and mission operations
  •  Launch site assistance in payload processing.
  •  Experiment loading and handover for integration into the vehicle
  •  Payload monitoring while on orbit using our data downlink and command uplink capabilities
  •  Payload collection and return during post-landing recovery operations
  •  Bonded storage of flight hardware, parts and materials
  •  Traceability of parts and materials (esp. safety critical)