FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE WEBINAR
TechLeap Universal Payload Interface Challenge: Spotlight on Winning Solutions
Wednesday, March 4
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT
Speakers
- Eric Jordan, Project Manager, Aegis Aerospace, Inc.
- Solange Massa, M.D. Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Ecoatoms, Inc.
- Ethan Tsai, Project Manager, UCLA Electron Losses and Fields Investigation CubeSat Project
- Joe Zimo, Space Technology Analyst, NASA Headquarters
Abstract
Join us to hear about solutions developed by winners of the NASA TechLeap Prize Universal Payload Interface Challenge. With the goal of changing the pace of space, NASA’s Flight Opportunities program issued this challenge to help move technologies into flight testing and between different flight environments as quickly as possible. This challenge invited businesses, academic institutions, entrepreneurs, and other innovators to devise a flight-ready solution to enable easy integration of diverse technology payloads onto various commercial vehicles.
During this session, the three teams selected in June 2024 will share their progress in developing their solutions:
- EPIIC (Easy-to-Use Payload Interoperable Integration Carrier) from Aegis Aerospace is a modular experiment and payload adapter designed around a CubeSat construct, enabling simple, rapid, and interchangeable integration onto a variety of spaceflight vehicles. Aegis Aerospace’s design optimizes mass and volume, and it leverages spaceflight-proven hardware.
- ANIMA (Apparatus for Nominal Integration with Minimal Adaptations), developed by Ecoatoms, consists of an interchangeable adapter, a universal power and data connector, and an on-board computer that is designed to integrate payloads onto a range of flight vehicles with minimal adaptations.
- SDPI (Software-Defined Payload Interface) is a compact yet flexible CubeSat-compatible system that allows the payload developer to define multiple digital and power interfaces via software. Developed by the ELFIN (Electron Losses and Fields Investigation) student team at the SPACE Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles, the low-cost SDPI leverages the team’s prior successful flight engineering experience.
Join the session to understand how each team leveraged prize awards to bring their proposed solution to life. Hear lessons learned and gain insight into how these solutions can help researchers rapidly develop adaptable payloads for a wide range of flight vehicles.
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