Company - Alpha Space (Aegis Aerospace)
Product/Service - MISSE
- Classification
- Miscellaneous
- Category
- ISS Utilization Service
- Fields
- Automated Microgravity Laboratory
On-Orbit Experimental Facilty
- Status
- Active
- First launch
- 2018
Owns and operates MISSE, the only commercial external test facility in space.
Angstrom and Aegis will be offering solar cell testing on the MISSE platform on the ISS.
- Aegis Aerospace’s commercial space testing as a service (STaaS™) now includes solar cell testing and calibration capability.
- Timeline: • Aug 2024: Send your cells mounted on provided holders • Feb 2025: Launch to ISS • April 2025: 1st of 6 monthly data deliveries • Jan 2026: Receive your cells back.
MISSE Update and New Capabilities, 2024-07-31.
- New MISSE Pallet Carrier enables larger, more complex experiments.
- New Orbital Electronics Laboratory available for solar cell characterization.
- Future BioMISSE will enable complex life science experiments in the full spectrum of low dose, high energy radiation.
Aegis Aerospace lands a Texas Space Commission space grant, 2025-04-01.
- Aegis Aerospace Inc. has secured a Space Exploration and Aeronautics Research Fund (SEARF) grant through the Texas Space Commission (TSC) to deliver an in-space manufacturing platform for advanced materials.
- The TSC board of directors voted to approve grant applications that total $26 million for five proposed projects. Aegis Aerospace is to receive up to $10 million.
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