Summary
The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is enabling a new avenue to high-fidelity and long-duration satellite testing at the edge-of-Space, and with it, rapid and reliable satellite missions to Low-Earth-Orbit and beyond. More than 35% of satellites fail at the component, or system level, after their deployment into orbit. Available testing platforms do not meet the industry's needs for rapid and low-cost technology risk reduction, therefore slowing the progress of the race to space. Satellite testing at mesospheric altitudes will increa
