Are you headed to San Luis Obispo for the CubeSat Developer’s Workshop? Don’t miss the MMA Space presentation on day 1 of the conference! Our Chief Engineer, Dr. Alexi Rakow, will be presenting on “Deployable Boom Technologies for CubeSats and SmallSats”, an important, enabling technologies for our innovative solutions for space.
When: Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 3:20 PM
What: Deployable Boom Technologies for CubeSats and SmallSats
Who: Alexi Rakow, PhD, Chief Engineer @MMA Space
Where: CubeSat Developer’s WorkShop @ CalPoly San Luis Obispo
We look forward to this event every year, right in our backyard in the heart of the booming Colorado space industry!
The MMA Space team will be attending and exhibiting at the 40th Space Symposium at the beautiful Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. We will be in Booth 611 of the BAE Systems Exhibit Hall South from April 7-10, 2025. If so, we look forward to connecting with you! Here are some ways to do that:
Are you flying in a little early on Monday? Head towards
Broomfield to tour our new facility and enjoy some food on MMA Space before you head down to Colorado Springs. We are a quick 23 minute drive from DIA, right off the E-470 N Tollroad. We would love to host you and show you around! RSVP at
[email protected]
Are you attending the 40th Space Symposium?
Connect with the MMA team’s Blake Fardulis (Mechanical Design Engineer), Alexi Rakow (Chief Engineer), and Mark Bailey (VP of Business Development) at AIAA SciTech this week, January 6-10, in Orlando, Florida!
Blake will be presenting our recent publication Development of In-Space Assembled Tubular Masts (ATMs) regarding an in-space assembled boom technology developed under a 2024 NASA SBIR Phase I effort. ATMs are a new deployable space structures technology that enables closed cross-section booms and trusses to be assembled on orbit. ATMs present distinct performance advantages over current state-of-the-art deployable booms, while avoiding existing fabrication, furling, and deployment problems associated with permanently bonded closed cross-section high-strain composite solutions such as Collapsible Tubular Masts (CTMs).
Blake is presenting today Monday January 6, 2025 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern Time, in room Florida Ballroom A in Session: SCS-02/STR-06, In-Space Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) I
Paper Title: Development of In-Space Assembled Tubular Masts
Presentation Time: 1:40 PM to 2:00 PM
It’s almost time for the 38th Annual Small Satellite Conference! Are you headed to Logan, Utah too? Come see us at the Fieldhouse in Booth 235 and schedule time to meet with the team.
We have so much exciting new technology to share! And a few surprises too.
T-minus 3 days until we get to see everyone again at the 39th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs! Exhibiting at Space Symposium is a highlight of our year, and we always look forward to attending this premier space industry event.
We are very excited to be launching our next-generation dragNET De-orbit and Solar Sail System this year! Our flight heritage deorbit was effective in deorbiting spacecraft in just over 2 years, but this newly retooled dragNET is going to make Space Sustainability accessible to all missions with <50% fewer parts and 1/2 the cost of the original. Come by Booth 628 to see it in person and talk to the team to learn how you can simply, affordably and reliably ensure your mission complies with the FCC <5 year rule for deorbiting spacecraft, launch vehicles or other space assets in LEO.
Don’t see a time that works for you? No problem — we will make time!
Email us at [email protected] to set something up.
We look forward to seeing everyone!
In support of a deployable LIDAR membrane optic systems previously developed as part of a Phase III SBIR, MMA was awarded a NASA Phase I SBIR that will further advance the state of closed cross-section deployable booms required to scale or otherwise maximize deployed tension in the optic system in development. The proposed Assembled Tubular Masts (ATMs) provide closed-cross section performance while eliminating problems associated with permanently bonding shell halves to form closed cross-section booms. MMA’s work during this phase will aim to achieve at least twice the tension on the deployed optic membrane MMA’s Lidar system all within the same stowed volume by changing booms from an open section slit tube to a closed, ATM cross-section. Beyond LIDAR instruments, the fundamental ATM technology developed in this Phase I effort is also directly applicable to any deployable space structure that seeks to maximize deployed system stiffness, while minimizing stowed volume and mass. The ATM technology may be applied to future NASA missions requiring deployed solar arrays, deployable antenna systems, or other space deployable structures both in Earth orbit, interplanetary, or for lunar or Mars surface operations.
Learn More about NASA’s recent technology investments: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-small-business-research-teams-for-tech-development
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