About

MissionSpace Corporation provides advanced, cost-effective and dependable solutions to the aerospace, defense, and telecommunications industries. Our experienced staff is committed to providing superior technical, training, and customer service support.

We work closely with our clients and are proud to deliver solutions that meet, and often exceed, their expectations. By incorporating innovative approaches early in the design lifecycle, MissionSpace can significantly reduce a project's cost, deployment schedule, and technical risk.

Under contract to NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), MissionSpace provided complete downlink support for SRTM. This highly successful mission was performed by the Shuttle Endeavour (STS-99), which blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on February 11, 2000 on an eleven-day mission to collect multi-band radar data of the earth's surface. This data was then processed to generate highly accurate 3-D images of nearly 80% of the earth's surface.

Since contract award in April 2003, MissionSpace has been providing support to JPL's MRO project. For the ground test phase, MissionSpace deployed the AME to test the spacecraft and its instrument data. For the operations phase, MissionSpace deployed an AME-based data accountability/tracking system to provide operators with automated anomaly identification capabilities. The AME quickly identifies and isolates problems, sends alerts to key operations and personnel, and automatically requests retransmission of missing frames/packets.

In addition to providing mission data verification/validation support in March 2005, MissionSpace deployed AME at JPL for the CloudSat project to provide backup downlink capabilities. A small team of engineers was able to design, develop, and deploy a duplicate downlink system in less than three months.

To achieve this rapid turnaround, MissionSpace reused modules from previous AME deployments, quickly developed several new modules, and established over a dozen separate test configurations in order to provide operators with both EU converted and binary data products.