Spacebilt Incorporated

Spacebilt Incorporated is a diversified space systems development entity with active hardware (SMART-1 platform) on the International Space Station.  Our expertise and specialties are associated with the flight qualification of complex robotics, avionics, and other hardware software systems on ISS exterior platforms.  Additionally, Spacebilt provides a path beyond the ISS for in flight services on our Orbital Logistics Vehicle, to any orbit (Cislunar, Venus to Mars distance) in the inner solar system.

Primary Services:

As an integration partner with the ISS National Lab Spacebilt’s SMART-1 Platform is capable of being sited on ISS external locations such as the Express Logistics Carrier, the Bartolomeo Platform (Airbus), and the Kibo External Facility (In partnership with the Japanese company SpaceBD.  The platform is currently active on the ISS providing services for Technology Readiness Level (TRL) qualification of a German robotic connector. The services that our platform provides are:

• Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space environment
• Radiation environment monitoring through the ARMAS-ISS sensor
• Webserver based experiment control to provide a standard web based development environment.
• Ku/Ip communications, through the ISS to TDRSS to ground to VPN based proxy server
• Extreme temperatures
• Direct sun, or sun shielded with Multilayer insulation

Standard services that Spacebilt provides include:

• Payload integration/de-integration
• Safety and requirements documentation development and support
• Engineering support during experiment concept and implementation
• Software support for payload command and control development
• Testing (Vibration, thermal vacuum, electromagnetic interference)
• Temperature, voltage, currents, radiation environment
• Solar angle data
• Operational support is optionally provided through our flight operations center

Additional Services:

In addition to the standard services, Spacebilt provides end to end support for the customer

• 200 watts @28 volts (iSEEP platform), 400 watts @28 or 120 volts (ELC or Bartolomeo)
• Ku/Ip connectivity, 24/7 connection (data rate negotiable)
• Radiation environment monitoring (with ARMAS-ISS sensor option)
• Technology Readiness Level qualification (with outside independent support)
• Post flight further operations on other commercial or free flight platforms

ISS-certified hardware/Software:

• SMART1_Platform for in space Technology Readiness 7-8 qualification
• Ku/IP Based Web Server for Secure Access to Experimental Hardware
• Linux Operating System (Yocto), Qualified for ISS Operations
• Up to 8 Terabytes of onboard storage
• Software support for Ubuntu, or VX Works Operating Systems

Research Support Services

• Experiment Formulation Services (Assist Customer Experiment Development)
• Experiment data reduction and validation

Labs,  Shops, and Test Facilities

• Experiment design, test, and manufacture through our network
• Virtual Private Networks for remote software development
• Virtual Private Network to NASA for operational support
• Electromagnetic Interference testing and support
• Vibration testing (through local outside partners)
• Advanced simulation services (thermal, structural, electrical)