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Join our agile group of highly creative aerospace professionals who are leading the smallsat revolution with unique, deployable and antenna payload technologies.

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Looking forward to seeing everyone at the 38th Space Symposium!

We are looking forward to seeing you at the 38th Space Symposium on April 17th through the 20th at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs! Come by Booth 628 at the Northrop Grumman Exhibit Center South Hall to see what’s new at MMA. It’s been a busy year and we are excited to tell you about our new capabilities and technology advancements.

Set up some time on our calendars to meet with us while you are at the conference!

Meet the team who will be attending, including folks from our engineering, manufacturing, people and BD teams. And get yourself a pair of Limited Edition Explorer Socks!

MMA wins NG Supplier Excellence Award!

MMA is thrilled and honored to have been awarded an inaugural Northrop Grumman Supplier Excellence Award for Strategic Excellence on March 2, 2023! This distinction was awarded to MMA — one in 60 companies out of over 10,000 NG suppliers! — for performing at the highest level. This new award celebrates our work supporting Northrup Grumman in achieving the highest standards of ethics, integrity and performance when providing products and solutions for their customers. Our President + CEO, Mitch Wiens, along with our VP of Programs, Pietro DiLeonardo, were in Rockville, Maryland to accept the award. We are so grateful to NG for their trust and confidence in our team and for their continued partnership.

Northrop Grumman leadership gather for a special awards conference at the Bethesda North Marriott on March 2, 2023.

Learn more about the award: https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/releases/sixty-partners-honored-with-northrop-grumman-supplier-excellence-awards

DSO releases first radar imagery from NeuSAR mission using MMA’s next-gen DaHGR Antenna

Singapore’s DSO National Laboratories has released the first radar imagery from the NeuSAR mission using MMA’s next-gen Deployable High Gain Reflectarray (DaHGR) antenna. The fully polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been successfully providing all-weather imaging starting 8 days after its launch last summer.

Singapore Downtown, 8 Aug 2022 – Full polarimetric Spot image offering enhanced visual details. Photo: DSO National Laboratories

Eastern Singapore, 25 July 2022 – Full polarimetric Strip image demonstrating high quality imaging for both land and maritime applications over a wide area. Photo: DSO National Laboratories

Phuket, Thailand, 16 July 2022 – Single polarimetric image obtained during day-and-night, all-weather with ‘see through cloud’ conditions. Photo: DSO National Laboratories

Learn more from Singapore’s Economic Development Board here: https://bit.ly/3f6HTbN

MMA team ships Deployable Subsystem for AFRL Arachne flight experiment

It’s a big day at MMA! After several years in collaboration with Northrop Grumman and AFRL, we are ready to ship our Deployable Subsystem which is the structural backbone of AFRL’s Arachne flight experiment. This exciting program will convert solar to RF energy, and has a planned launch in 2025.

Arachne Deployable Subsystem during final deployment testing at MMA facility.

Artist’s rendering of the Air Force Laboratory’s Arachne flight experiment on orbit. Credit: Partise

Learn more: https://afresearchlab.com/technology/arachne/

Four MMA Design HaWK Solar Array Missions Hitch Ride on Artemis I

When the Space Launch System (SLS), NASA’s most powerful rocket to date, launched on November 15, 2022, four of MMA Design’s HaWK Solar Arrays await their turn to finally spread their wings to study the Earth, the Moon and beyond! Accompanying the important Artemis I payload of mannequins – in preparation for its ultimate human cargo when the US returns to the moon – 10 cubesats are hitching a ride as secondary payloads. Four of those missions will be powered by MMA HaWK Solar Arrays.

Image credits: NASA

BioSentinel, a collaboration with NASA Ames Research Laboratories, will demonstrate a biosensor to detect, measure, and correlate the impact of space radiation to living organisms over long durations beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO). MMA’s BioSentinel HaWKs are a combination of two standard MMA HaWK configurations, one of which is actuated by our Solar Array Drive Assembly (SADA), for a combined 84 W of peak power.

The EQUULEUS mission HaWK configuration includes wings that are gimbaled on a common single axis of rotation using MMA’s SADA which spans the 1U x 2U face of the cubesat. The array provides 56 W of peak power. EQUULEUS, a University of Tokyo/JAXA mission that MMA was honored to work on, will measure the distribution of plasma surrounding the Earth’s plasmasphere to help scientists understand the radiation environment in that region.

In partnership with the team at Arizona State University, MMA delivered enhanced HaWK (eHaWK) Solar Arrays with 112 W of peak power in support of their LunaH-Map mission. Both wings are positioned using MMA’s SADA which spans the 1U width of the spacecraft. This mission, from ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, searches for hydrogen deposits on the Moon’s south pole by creating higher-fidelity maps of near-surface hydrogen in craters and other permanently shadowed regions with neutron spectrometers.

And, working with JPL and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, NEAScout is a robotic reconnaissance mission headed beyond the moon. NEAScout will deploy a solar sail to fly by, and return data from, an asteroid representative of other near-earth asteroids (NEAs) that may one day be human destinations. MMA’s HaWK array will contribute 42 W of peak power for the NEAScout mission.

The greatly anticipated launch of SLS and Artemis I lead the way for future human exploration of the moon and, importantly, flight test four more MMA HaWK Solar Array configurations. MMA’s HaWK Solar Arrays lead the industry in high-performance space power solutions by delivering more watts per kilogram and more kilowatts per cubic meter for CubeSats as well as larger platforms.

MMA Lunar Flashlight HaWK Solar Arrays ready to launch

Another pair of MMA’s High Watts per Kilogram “HaWK” solar arrays are poised to launch for the moon. Anticipated to launch this November on a SpaceX Falcon9 from Cape Canaveral, Lunar Flashlight will be the first mission to use a four-laser reflectometer to look for water ice on the Moon.

“This is an exciting time for lunar exploration. The launch of Lunar Flashlight, along with the many small satellite missions aboard Artemis I (on which MMA HaWK solar arrays are powering 4 other missions!), may form the foundations for science discoveries as well as support future missions to the Moon’s surface,” said Roger Hunter, Small Spacecraft Technology program manager at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.

Learn more at NASA.gov.

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Another MMA dragNET De-orbit Systems Launches with GAzelle Satellite

On October 7, 2022, another MMA dragNET De-orbit System launched on a RocketLab Electron as part of its only payload — the General Atomics GAzelle Satellite hosting a Radmon and an Argos-4 payload. Argos-4 will become part of the Argos constellation supported by the NOAA Cooperative Data and Rescue Services Program.

De-orbiting space debris recently became a hot topic of discussion again as the FCC unanimously approved a rule that requires satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) to be disposed of in no more than 5 years post mission, significantly shortening the decades-old 25-year recommendation set forth by NASA in the 90s.

MMA’s dragNET De-orbit System has proven its effectiveness with the Minotaur I ORS Mission in 2013, which successfully de-orbited the upper stage of that launch vehicle within 2 years, besting the new FCC requirements.

#MMAgivesMORE at a Habitat for Humanity Build Day

The MMA team recently had a great day on an 8-home build in Longmont, Colorado for Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain. A group of 25 MMA team members spent the day working to complete construction on a townhome which needed roofing, new soffits and siding, windows installed and many other finishing touches. We had a blast measuring twice, cutting once, and working as a team for this worthy cause.

Check out photos from the day here.

Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain is dedicated to providing decent, affordable housing for low-income families in the St. Vrain Valley School District and Estes Park.

Let’s Connect in Logan @SmallSat #Conference2022!

Are you also headed to SmallSat in Logan Utah next month, August 8-11? It’s been way too long since we’ve been able to gather in person for this great conference, and we are looking forward to connecting with you! You can sign up for a time to meet with the team by finding an open slot on our Sign Up Genius, or just walk over to TSC Booth 20!

On Tuesday, August 9 at 9:30 am during the technical session, our very own Mark Bailey is going to be presenting a paper on our GLOWS concept which packages a 6-meter aperture on a rideshare satellite. If you are interested in large RF apertures on small satellites, you won’t want to miss that.

All week, you can sign up for a chance to win one of a dozen awesome 18 oz Yeti Chug Jugs! Drop a business card or scan your badge for a chance to win.