From signature to data, in four phases

Every phase has a reviewable deliverable and a closed list of what we need from your team. Durations are set against the reserved launch window.

What your team defines

Operating profile

When your component powers up, for how long, at what duty cycle and which voltage and temperature sweeps it goes through. Written with you at kick-off and adjusted in orbit if the data calls for it.

What is measured and how often

Your payload's channels and their sampling rate, always alongside synchronised platform telemetry: voltage, current, temperatures, attitude, position and time.

What counts as success

The data volume and test-profile coverage that mark the mission as completed are set in the contract before flight, not after.

What gets published, and when

Nothing goes out without your written approval: not your name, not your component, not a single result. You choose what to show, to whom and when.

What happens, what we deliver and what we need from you

Illustration Sine sweep in the environmental campaign: the DUT response is traced as the frequency rises, with its resonances.

Kick-off and integration

Joint ICD review: mechanical envelope, connector, power budget, data protocol and in-orbit test profile. We receive your engineering model, validate the interface, integrate the flight model and run the system-level environmental campaign.

Deliverable: Signed ICD + environmental test report
From you: Component EM and FM, test plan
Duration: [PENDING]

Illustration Separation from the rideshare dispenser: the spring pushes the satellite out, it drifts away and deploys its panels.

Licensing and launch

We handle the operator authorisation, frequency coordination and space object registration, and review the component's export control. We book the rideshare slot, hand the satellite over to the launch provider and support the campaign.

Deliverable: Licences in force + manifest confirmation
From you: Technical and export classification documentation
Duration: [PENDING]

Illustration The satellite links to the relay network whenever the Earth is not in the way; there is no ground station of our own.

In-orbit operations

LEOP and platform commissioning, followed by your payload's test campaign to the agreed profile: power-ups, temperature and voltage sweeps, event logging. Continuous monitoring with data arriving through relay satellites, without waiting to pass over a ground station, plus regular status reports.

Deliverable: Operations reports + preliminary telemetry
From you: Success criteria and test profile
Duration: [PENDING]

Illustration DUT channels, in orange, and platform channels on the same time base: every event arrives with its context.

Data delivery and flight certificate

We deliver the raw and processed dataset with synchronised platform telemetry —voltages, currents, temperatures, attitude, position and time— so every measurement can be interpreted. The certificate documents dates, orbit, accumulated environment and observed behaviour.

Deliverable: Data + performance report + flight certificate
From you: Review and acceptance of the report
Duration: [PENDING]

A satellite wrapped in multi-layer insulation, surrounded by scaffolding inside a large thermal vacuum chamber. — **Phase 1 · environmental campaign** Thermal vacuum: vacuum and thermal cycling on the ground before the flight model is integrated. Image: NASA/Michael Guinto · public domain · illustrative

The glowing trail of a night launch curving over the water. — **Phase 2 · launch** The rideshare slot sets the window, and with it the schedule. Image: NASA · public domain · illustrative

The layers of the atmosphere at the terminator, from orange to deep blue, with the crescent Moon above, photographed from the International Space Station. — **Phase 3 · operations** Thermal and power cycling, orbit after orbit. Image: NASA/Ron Garan · Expedition 28, ISS · public domain

Dataset, report and flight certificate

Three deliverables, cross-referenced to each other.

DatasetRaw and processed, with platform TM on the same time base as your channels. Format: [PENDING].
Performance reportExecuted profile, environmental conditions, events and anomalies, with the analysis method.
Flight certificateOne page with dates, orbit, accumulated environment and observed behaviour.

This is how the certificate is laid out. It is a specimen: the fields are filled with the measured data of each mission and the final template is [PENDING].

Flight certificateIn-orbit demonstration · Apollo Orbitals

No. [PENDING]

Customer: customer's legal name
Component: part number and serial number of the flown unit
Mission and format: identifier · 1U or 3U
Launch: date, launcher and deployer
Orbit: altitude, inclination and β angle
Test campaign: dates, days in orbit and operating hours
Accumulated environment: sun-shadow cycles, temperature range at the interface and estimated ionising dose, with its model
Observed behaviour: summary of operation, single events and anomalies recorded, cross-referenced to the report

Issued in Barcelona signature and date of issue