Air Force recognizes MMA’s recent SBA Award

The U.S. Air Force recently recognized MMA Design for its Tibbetts Award win. MMA is grateful for the support from the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Program, and honored to receive recognition for the positive impact our innovative products are having in the space industry.

To see the full press release from the 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs office, click here.

MMA is a 2016 Tibbetts Award Winner!

We are thrilled and honored to announce that MMA Design LLC has won a 2016 Tibbetts Award!

The Tibbetts Award is in recognition of our unique and outstanding work on AFRL and NASA programs that have contributed to the overall success of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. Companies are evaluated on the basis of technical innovation, business impact, and broader social and economic benefit.

Our President & COO, Mitch Wiens, was in Washington D.C. in January to accept the award in person.

Read more about the Tibbetts Awards and see a complete list of this year’s winners in the U.S. Small Business Administration’s press release, or check out the MMA Design company write-up in the official awards ceremony program on page 39.

You can also see photographs from the event in Washington D.C. here, where you will see MMA’s photos on pages 68 and 69.

MMA completes range test of DaHGR antenna

The MMA antenna team achieved a significant milestone in the DaHGR development by successfully completing a RF range test of a DaHGR antenna. The DaHGR antenna performed as designed and measured RF loss as the result of folding was within allocated budget.

Arizona State University awards LunaH-Map solar array contract.

MMA will design and deliver our 90 W eHaWK-2PLUS tracking solar array to support the LunaH-Map mission.

Colorado OEDIT awards Early Stage Capital and Retention Grant

The Office of Economic Development & International Trade awarded MMA a grant to support its workforce and technology development.

Colorado OEDIT Awards Commercialization Grant

The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) awarded a grant to MMA for the commercialization of our antenna technologies. Thank you Colorado!

MMA’s dragNET successfully deorbits Minotaur Upper Stage

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently reported that MMA’s dragNET De-Orbit System successfully deorbited the Minotaur upper stage in January 2016, 2.1 years after launch on the ORS-3 Mission in November 2013. This is MMA’s first successful flight heritage product. We want to thank our supporting customers at AFRL, STP, and SMC and congratulate the MMA dragNET team!

MMA’s dragNET proving successful for de-orbiting Minotaur Upper Stage orbital debris

In a recent interview with MMA regarding the dragNET De-orbit System, “The DoD Space Test Program (STP) is very pleased how the dragNET De-orbit System is working; even with an offset in the placement, we have at least a 50% reduction in the time to deorbit the upper stage. STP can plan spacecraft missions in the future knowing that we can leverage dragNET to meet the National Space Policy 25 year deorbit requirement”, Theodore Marrujo, Chief Engineer of DoD Space Test Program, Advanced Systems and Development Directorate, said by email.

MMA’s dragNET was recently recognized in Space News and Aerospace America, links to articles below:

NASA’s Interest in Removal of Debris Limited to Tech Demos

Cleaning Up Space

MMA Delivers MarCO Solar Arrays to JPL!

After successfully completing an acceptance test program, MMA delivered two flight solar arrays to JPL for integration into the MarCO 6U CubeSats that will launch in March 2016. Mars here we come!

JPL Issues Press Release on MarCO CubeSat Mission

Learn more about the MarCO CubeSat Mission here. MMA will be delivering HaWK solar arrays at the end of June for spacecraft integration.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-200&rn=news.xml&rst=4622