misse

A MATERIALS RESEARCH 
FACILITY IN SPACE

​ABOUT MISSE

We are the only company in Mexico with access to this investigation module on board of the International Space Station.

MISSE Low Earth Orbit external on ISS

MISSE is a highly flexible, commercial facility owned and operated by Aegis Aerospace that is permanently installed on the external ISS truss near the solar arrays. It provides exposure to all four directional faces: forward-facing (“Ram”, or direction of flight), aft-facing (“Wake”, the opposite of Ram), Earth-facing (“Nadir”, or downward), and upward facing (“Zenith” or space facing). Each provides a unique micro-environment for our customers’ experiments, tests, and demonstrations.

​MISSE provides power, data, and commanding capabilities for customer experiments, tests, and demonstrations. We collect and provide environmental data and monthly photos of deck-mounted items. MISSE is controlled by Aegis Aerospace payload operators from the control center in Houston, Texas

R&D and technology demonstrations flown on MISSE include RF transmitters, Earth-sensing instruments, electronics, solar cells, and passive material samples. Customers include large and small companies, federal agencies, non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and private individuals.

misse benefits

• Get to orbit, tested, and returned quickly
• Regular mission cadence
• Perform a detailed, post-mission analysis of the effects of the space environment
• Reduce risk and understand system performance in the space environment
• Quickly increase TRL to 7 or 8
• Highly competitive pricing

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MISSE Process Includes

• Missions every six months (6- or 12-month duration)
• 3-7 MISSE science carriers launched and returned every mission
• Average of >160 experiments/demonstrations per mission
• Experiments manifested as close as 5 months before launch
• Face any orbital direction (ram, wake, zenith, nadir)
• Highly competitive pricing
  • Passive material exposure for as little as $5,000
  • Dedicated carrier for about $500,000
• Services/utilities include
  • Test article volume of 5 cm³ to 26,700 cm³ per carrier
  • Up to 10kg of test article mass per carrier
  • Up to 50W of 28 VDC power per carrier
  • Near real-time data downlink using ethernet, RS422, or CAN
  • Data storage in the carrier
  • Orbital commanding
  • HD photos monthly (exposure decks)
  • Temperature, contamination, radiation, UV intensity, and atomic oxygen environmental data
  • Software reconfigurable during the mission
  • Experiment protection from ISS contamination events
• Marketing campaigns and memorabilia items for resale are possible.