Aerospace Corporation

We operate the only federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) committed exclusively to the space enterprise. Our technical experts span every discipline of space-related science and engineering.

• Prairie, the platform combines Aerospace’s unrivaled technical and historical space operation data with the most innovative gaming engines available in the commercial market, and is presented to the user with stunning visual graphics. Prairie will give users the ability to train for space engagement by fusing architecture, technology and space operations together in a unique, open-source package.
• DiskSat, a flat, compact spacecraft that resembles a giant CD-ROM.
  • Nominally, it has some protruding components; it will stack with a center-to-center distance of 55 mm in the dispenser.
  • And in a low-mass satellite that gives a very high power-to-mass ratio, which is suitable for electric propulsion missions requiring a large Delta-v. So, we will be flying with about 100 [to] 120 watts of solar cells on this mission.
  • We’re expecting to come in at about 12 kg [26.5 lb] per satellite, and we have electric propulsion on board that should be good for several hundred meters per second in Delta-v.
  • If you look at Cubesats, CubeSats are volume-limited, but the DiskSat is intended to be a mass-limited satellite.
  • If you think, for example, what we’re building right now is two and a half centimeters thickness and 12 kg, 1-meter diameter. If you stack 20 of those, then you’re up to 250 kg [551.2 lb], which now starts to exceed the mass capacity of small launch vehicles. But, yet the volume will still fit in the [launch vehicle] volume.

• MEMS 1A (Pico 21, PICOSAT-1, OPAL PICOSATS)
• MEMS 1B (Pico 23, Picosat 1, OPAL PICOSATS)
• MEMS 2A (Pico 20, PICOSAT 7, OPAL, MIGHTYSAT II.1 PICOSATS)
• MEMS 2B (Pico 22, PICOSAT 8, OPAL, MIGHTYSAT II.1 PICOSATS)
• MEPSI 1A (MEMS-based PicoSat Inspector)
• MEPSI 1B (MEMS-based PicoSat Inspector)
• MEPSI 2A (MEMS-based PicoSat Inspector)
• MEPSI 2B (MEMS-based PicoSat Inspector)
• Moonlighter

• AeroCube-1
• AeroCube-2
• PSSC (PSSCT, PSSCT-1, Pico Satellite Solar Cell Testbed)
• AeroCube-3
• PSSC-2 (Pico Satellite Solar Cell Testbed-2, PSSC Testbed-2, PSSCT-2, PSSC2)
• AeroCube-4A (AeroCube 4.5A)
• AeroCube-4B (AeroCube 4.5B)
• AeroCube-4C
• AeroCube-5A (AeroCube 5A)
• AeroCube-5B
• AeroCube-6A (AC6-A)
• AeroCube-6B (AC-6B)
• AeroCube-8A (IMPACT)
• AeroCube-8B (IMPACT)
• AeroCube-5C
• Aerocube-7A (OCSD, Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration, IOCPS-A, Integrated Optical Communications and Proximity Sensors)
• AeroCube-8C (IMPACT)
• AeroCube-8D (IMPACT)
• Aerocube-7B (OCSD-B, Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration, IOCPS-B, Integrated Optical Communications and Proximity Sensors)
• Aerocube-7C (OCSD-C, Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration, IOCPS-B, Integrated Optical Communications and Proximity Sensors)
• AeroCube-12 A (AC12-A, AeroCube 12A)
• AeroCube-12 B (AC12-B, AeroCube 12B)
• AeroCube-11A (AC11, TOMSat Eagle Scout , Rapid + Responsive + Reimagined, Testbed for Optical Missions Satellite, AEROCUBE 11-EAGLESCOUT)
• AeroCube-11B (AC11, TOMSat R3, Rapid + Responsive + Reimagined, Testbed for Optical Missions Satellite, AEROCUBE 11-R3)
• AeroCube-10A (JimSat)
• AeroCube-10B (DougSat)
• AeroCube-14A (IMPACT)
• AeroCube-14B (IMPACT)
• AeroCube-15A (Rogue Alpha)
• AeroCube-15B (Rogue Beta)
• DAILI (Daily Atmospheric Ionospheric Limb Imager Mission)
• Slingshot-1 (SLINGSHOT1)
• LLITED A (Low-Latitude Ionosphere/Thermosphere Enhancement in Density)
• LLITED B (Low-Latitude Ionosphere/Thermosphere Enhancement in Density)
• Moonlighter
• AeroCube-16A
• AeroCube-16B
• AeroCube-18 A (AC18)
• AeroCube-18 B (AC18)

• Edge Node A
• Edge Node B

• AeroCube-9 (LMPC CubeSat)