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: An AI-native systems engineering platform
The Ivy software integrates systems engineering, project management, scheduling, and quality in an automated single source of truth. Ivy automatically checks project documentation against requirements, so that 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.
Gravity Surfer Autopilot: Onboard trajectory design software
The Gravity Surfer Autopilot automates mission design, target acquisition, and pathfinding, onboard the satellite. Trajectory work that normally takes an analyst weeks becomes 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.
PCM: Satellite Deployment Control
The Power Control Module (PCM) is a self-contained satellite deployment control unit: an autonomous, payload-side power switching and sequencing system. Satellite release events and telemetry are controlled independently of launch vehicle systems, enabling flexible, rideshare, and covert satellite deployments.
The PCM is based on ALS’s Auxiliary Payload Support Unit (APSU) avionics suite, which has flight heritage from the Landsat-9 EELV Flight System mission. PCM adds embedded power, switching, harnesses, and inhibits, for long duration missions and late satellite swaps.
A-Deck: ESPA Interior Payload Adapter
A-Deck is the ALS structure that puts available payload mass and volume to work. A-Deck mounts on the inside of payload adapters like the ESPA ring, for hosting mission-critical components and space vehicles. This structure is designed, analyzed, and integrated in-house to adapt to any payload manifest.
A-Deck has been integrated into multiple flight systems, and was the deck flown on the Blue Ring Pathfinder mission on the New Glenn maiden flight.
MSSIL: Mobile SCIF Cleanroom
Current satellite processing facilities available at American launch ranges cannot handle the rapid influx of space vehicles awaiting integration. The Mobile Secure Satellite Integration Lab (MSSIL) is a mobile, self-sufficient, SCIF, ISO-7 clean room inside a 14-foot-wide modular high cube container. It meets stringent Range Safety, personnel safety, security, and communication protocols.
MSSIL is the perfect size to integrate multiple CubeSats, two ESPA Grande-class satellites, or an Electron fairing.
MSSIC: Parallel Satellite Integration Center
The Multi-Mission Secure Satellite Integration Center (MSSIC) answers the need of the modern launch range to integrate dozens of independent satellites or a constellation of satellites at the same time, to be launched together in a single mission, all in SCIF clean rooms.
MSSIL and MSSIC form a complete portfolio of launch operations facilities for any mission.
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