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Payload adapters, deployment systems, and launch software

ALS builds the flight hardware that carries satellites to orbit, and the software that gets the mission designed, verified, and flown. Everything below has either flown or is built to the same qualification standard as the hardware that has.

Ivy Systems Engineering — Requirements and systems engineering software

Ships Q4 2026

An AI-native systems engineering platform.

Ivy integrates systems engineering, project management, scheduling, and quality in an automated single source of truth. With Ivy, systems engineers can focus their energy on protecting the mission from delays, cost overrun, and failure.

Spend 70% less time on the manual grind, increase quality and consistency, and make everyone a shareholder of mission success.

  • Requirements, documents, and engineering planning in one place
  • An automated checker for all project documentation
  • Made by engineers, for engineers
Mission riskRequirementsThreshold high low Risk ReviewFEAVibrationThermalFindings Mission timeline PassFail

Gravity Surfer Autopilot — Onboard trajectory design software

In development

A new kind of orbital trajectory calculation.

The Gravity Surfer Autopilot automates mission design, target acquisition, and pathfinding, turning trajectory work that normally takes an analyst weeks into something a spacecraft can reason about itself.

Because the calculation runs onboard rather than on the ground, it supports stealth and autonomy at the edge like never before.

  • Automated mission design and pathfinding
  • Onboard target acquisition
  • Built for autonomy at the edge

PCM — Satellite deployment sequencer

Flight-tested

Power Control Module

Autonomous, payload-side power and sequencing, independent of the launch vehicle.

The PCM is a self-contained satellite deployment control unit: an autonomous, payload-side power and sequencing system that controls satellite release events independently of launch vehicle power, telemetry, and command systems, enabling flexible, multi-manifest, and covert satellite deployments.

The PCM is based on ALS’s earlier Auxiliary Payload Support Unit (APSU) avionics suite, which has flight heritage from the Landsat-9 EELV Flight System mission. The PCM adapts that proven concept into a more autonomous system with its own embedded power source, power-switching module, sequencer, harnesses, inhibits, and command interfaces.

  • Release multiple satellites from a single launch
  • Control release timing and sequence independently
  • Separate long-duration power and operations from the launch vehicle
  • Conceal satellite separation timing and actions when required
  • Enable late satellite swaps or launch vehicle swaps
  • Support both commercial multi-manifest and classified government missions

A-Deck — ESPA-class payload adapter

TRL 9

Aquila Flight System Decks and Adapters

Payload storage solutions inside cylindrical adapters.

A-Decks and Adapters support multiple 1 to 1,000 kg small satellites across CubeSat and ESPA-class missions.

The platform achieved TRL 9 on Blue Origin’s New Glenn maiden flight as part of the Blue Ring Pathfinder, and was the DarkSky-1 mission system avionics deck.

  • Monolithic and composite Aluminum, and carbon composite face sheet options
  • Accommodates dispenser, bolted, and clamp band interfaces
  • Manufactured under an ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system

MSSIL — Mobile SCIF cleanroom

Build-ready

Mobile Secure Satellite Integration Laboratory

A containerized ISO-7 clean room and secure facility, all in one.

Current clean room facilities available at American launch ranges cannot handle the rapid influx of space vehicles awaiting integration. Add in increased security, and the situation is dire. MSSIL solves both problems with a mobile, self-sufficient, SCIF ISO-7 clean room inside an expandable 14-foot-wide modular container. ALS has collaborated with range safety officials to make this compliant with range needs.

MSSIL is the perfect size to integrate a couple ESPA-class satellites, an Electron fairing, or several CubeSats. Combine multiple to integrate even larger payloads.

  • Containerized, transportable clean room
  • Integration at the launch site or customer facility
  • ISO-7, SCIF, expandable, mobile, self-sufficient

MSSIC — Multi-mission satellite integration facility

Build-ready

Multi-Mission Secure Satellite Integration Center

Integrate multiple independent missions simultaneously.

MSSIC answers the need of the modern launch range at scale, as a facility that can integrate dozens of independent satellites at the same time, on multiple independent missions, all in SCIF clean rooms. ALS has collaborated with range safety officials to make this compliant with range needs.

MSSIL and MSSIC form a complete portfolio of launch operations facilities for any mission.

  • Full-manifest integration and checkout
  • Payload receiving through launch-ready
  • Scales alongside MSSIL for surge campaigns

Tell us about your payload, your vehicle, and your schedule. We'll get you flying in no time.

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