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Space Micro’s cumulative space flight heritage has now exceeded 750,000 failure-free hours in various orbits: LEO, GEO, and lunar. This data has been calculated by tracking the number of operational hours in space of 29 units of our satellite electronics for 13 programs and missions. Among these p...

The NASA InSight spacecraft landed on Mars on November 26, 2018 with two Exxelia film capacitors onboard. [...]...

Launched in May 2018, the InSight lander (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) has performed a perfect landing on Mars on November 26th. [...]...

Space Micro has been awarded a new Phase I SBIR contract by NASA.  This research and development will design a miniaturized dual-head star tracker in CubeSat form factor that can survive in harsh space radiation environments. [...]...

On October 20th, BepiColombo, the joint mission of the Japanese and the European space agencies (JAXA and ESA), has been successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana. [...]...

Space Micro delivered multiple space cameras to an undisclosed customer for a LEO spacecraft programSpace Micro’s 5MP camera is a state-of-the-art optical system leveraging an advanced visible imager chip. Following the development and delivery of [...]...

Space Micro has recently invested in and installed additional capital equipment to expand our manufacturing capacity.This new environmental test equipment enables support of higher volume satellite constellation [...]...

Space Micro’s S-Band radio, µSTDN, has now surpassed four years of operation in space on NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) program. Launched on June 28, 2013 from Vandenberg Air Force Base on an Orbital Pegasus XL Rocket, this radio was initially supplied for a two-year missio...