H5 on ISS at night in orbit Space Test Program Hardware by Aegis Aerospace
H5 on ISS at night in orbit Space Test Program Hardware by Aegis Aerospace

Innovate | Explore | Protect

Innovate | Explore | Protect

Innovate | Explore | Protect

Space & Defense

Our space and defense programs enable the warfighter to protect our nation and the explorer to extend our reach. The Aegis Aerospace team provides innovative, practical solutions that satisfy our government customers and suppliers.

Commercial Space

We serve commercial, civil, and DoD customers by providing end-to-end, turn-key R&D testing services in space. Our space testing as a service (STaaS™) platforms enable our customers and partners to focus entirely on developing their experiment or technology, and we do the rest.

Product Development

We develop payloads, experiments, small satellites, and other spaceflight products and  systems to be flown aboard the International Space Station, to any Earth orbit, or to the surface of the moon.

MISSE inside ISS

Our Range of Space and Defense Services & Capabilities

Aegis Aerospace provides the space and defense industries with a unique range of capabilities and turn-key commercial space services, technology and engineering services, and product development.

Space Testing as a Service (STaaS™)

Our STaaS™ platforms are the industry’s fastest, easiest way to increase Technology Readiness Levels (TRL), demonstrate, evaluate, and flight-qualify new products and technologies for space applications, and conduct  R&D experiments in the external space environment.

Lunar Systems

Our two lunar surface testing platforms — Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) and Space Science Test and Evaluation Facility (SSTEF) — enable customers to test their technologies on the Moon or conduct lunar science.

Systems Engineering
& Integration (SE&I)

Merging technical expertise and discipline to solve complex problems, whether as a service or an integral element of our projects.

Flight and Ground System Development and Operations

We design, build and operate satellites, payloads, ground stations, and other spaceflight and ground equipment for a wide range of government and commercial customers and applications.

Modeling, Simulation, Analysis

We help our customers reduce risk and make informed decisions by implementing accurate, low-cost system models, simulations, and analyses

Information Warfare
Solutions – Cyber/IT

We provide cutting-edge, secure solutions to outpace adversaries.

Acquisition Strategy
& Management

We connect warfighters with affordable, survivable, war-winning systems.

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Recent and Upcoming Missions

RAC

Q4 2024

MISSE-20

Sept 2024

STP-H10

Dec 2024

SSTEF

2025

Careers

For Engineering and Technology Professionals

For nearly thirty years, Aegis Aerospace has employed a team that helps the Department of Defense (DoD), Air Force, NASA, and Space Force achieve their missions, defend our country’s security in space, reach for new heights, and discover the unknown for the benefit of humanity.

Come see what working at Aegis Aerospace is all about as we Innovate, Explore, and Protect!

Nationally Recognized

Fast 100 HBJ
Aggie 100
Great Minds in STEM
Most Valuable Employer Military. CivilianJobs.com
Hispanic Business 500
WIA
SN Space News
Silver Snoopy Award
RNASA
Houston Chronicle Top Work Places. HoustonChronicle.com
American Heart Association. My Heart. My Life. Fit-Friendly Worksite. GOLD Achievement
Inc. 5000

Customers and Teammates

Nasa
Boeing
Lockheed Martin
Northrop Grumman
Air Forde LCMC
space & missile systems center
Texas A&M
Georgia Institute of Technology
Purdue University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Air Force Research Laboratory
Aerospace
Aexa
AFRL. The Air Force Research Laboratory. Lead | Discover | Develop | Deliver
Alta Devices a Hanergy Company Empowering Autonomy
ARS Applied Research Solutions
Axient
Axiom Space
AZ Technology
Carbice
DSoft Technology, Engineering & Analysis
Deep Space Ecology
Discovery Semiconductors, Inc. We chip the future
Executive Services Directorate Washington Headquarters Services
Harris
ISS U.S. National Laboratory
Jacobs
KBR
Leidos
Leviathan Space Industries
Made in Space
missile defense agency department of defense
Optisys
Ozic Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc
SAIC
san jacinto college
surrey nanosystems
Texas Microelectronics Corporation
Tomato sphere
The University of Adelaide
Control Vision
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
L3 Harris
The University of Manchester Est 1824
The University of Memphis
Moog Space and Defense Group
Nanohmics
The Space Collective
Space Micro
Stony Brook University

Nationally Recognized

Fast 100 HBJ
Aggie 100
Great Minds in STEM
Most Valuable Employer Military. CivilianJobs.com
Hispanic Business 500
WIA
SN Space News
Silver Snoopy Award
RNASA
Houston Chronicle Top Work Places. HoustonChronicle.com
American Heart Association. My Heart. My Life. Fit-Friendly Worksite. GOLD Achievement
Inc. 5000

Customers and Teammates

Nasa
Boeing
Lockheed Martin
Northrop Grumman
Air Forde LCMC
space & missile systems center
Texas A&M
Georgia Institute of Technology
Purdue University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Air Force Research Laboratory
Aerospace
Aexa
AFRL. The Air Force Research Laboratory. Lead | Discover | Develop | Deliver
Alta Devices a Hanergy Company Empowering Autonomy
ARS Applied Research Solutions
Axient
Axiom Space
AZ Technology
Carbice
DSoft Technology, Engineering & Analysis
Deep Space Ecology
Discovery Semiconductors, Inc. We chip the future
Executive Services Directorate Washington Headquarters Services
Harris
ISS U.S. National Laboratory
Jacobs
KBR
Leidos
Leviathan Space Industries
Made in Space
missile defense agency department of defense
Optisys
Ozic Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc
SAIC
san jacinto college
surrey nanosystems
Texas Microelectronics Corporation
Tomato sphere
The University of Adelaide
Control Vision
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
L3 Harris
The University of Manchester Est 1824
The University of Memphis
Moog Space and Defense Group
Nanohmics
The Space Collective
Space Micro
Stony Brook University

Newsroom

Update Supporting SPIRRAL

November 26, 2024|

Exciting times for the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) as SPIRRAL launched this month! We are proud to have supported this in two ways—through our work with the DOD Space Test Program as well as [...]

Aegis Aerospace is an
Innovator in Space Technologies

Aegis Aerospace (pronounced ējis) is a leading, woman-owned, commercial space and lunar exploration company and an experienced, well-respected DoD and NASA contractor. Since 1992, Aegis Aerospace has helped the Department of Defense and NASA achieve their missions to defend our country’s security, reach for new heights, and discover the unknown for the benefit of humanity. Since 2015, Aegis Aerospace has been at the forefront of the commercial space services industry and, since 2019, developing lunar systems that help advance human understanding of the lunar surface and how to operate there. Formed in 2021 through the merger of Alpha Space and MEI Technologies, Aegis Aerospace offers innovative yet practical solutions in the areas of commercial space services, flight and ground system development and operations, systems engineering, and integration (SE&I), and related spaceflight products and defense support services.