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

NASA Ames Awards BioSentinel Contract

MMA will deliver its HaWK-2 gimbaled solar array for the NASA Ames BioSentinel Mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2018. The objective of the BioSentinel Mission is to study the impact of space radiation on living organisms, specifically yeast cells, thriving outside of Low Earth Orbit.

For more information, visit the NASA Ames BioSentinel website: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/engineering/projects/biosentinel.html.

MMA awarded a JPL contract for ASTERIA Deployable Solar Arrays

JPL has awarded a contract to MMA to deliver deployable solar arrays for the ASTERIA Mission based on our E-HaWK Solar Array architecture and design.

MMA Delivers Solar Array Engineering Unit for MarCO Mission

MMA delivered the first solar array engineering hardware to JPL in support of the MarCO Mission, set to launch in 2016. JPL will integrate the solar array onto the MarCO bus to perform system engineering tests and spacecraft level risk reduction.

For information regarding the MarCO Mission, visit: https://marscubesatworkshop.jpl.nasa.gov/static/files/presentation/Asmar-Matousek/07-MarsCubeWorkshop-MarCO-update.pdf

MMA’s HaWK Solar Array Powers on to Mars!

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) selected MMA’s HaWK Solar Array to power the MarCO Mission scheduled for launch in 2016. MarCO is the first interplanetary 6U CubeSat communication spacecraft that will relay real time data on the InSight Lander Mission. We thank JPL for their support of our high performance solar arrays and are proud to be on the MarCO team charting the future of interplanetary smallsat missions.