Satellite Operations

SpacePlex^®

Through our SpacePlex®, a state-of-the-art space and communications services facility in Las Cruces, N.M., we provide customers a way to minimize their capital investment for unique satellite support infrastructure and avoid direct labor costs by using SpacePlex dedicated resources. The SpacePlex performance record includes satellite engineering, command/control, satellite monitoring and back-up services, teleport services, network management, data management and operational maintenance.

Satellite Operations

Our teams of engineers, operations professionals and program managers ensure our steady, continual growth through competence, customer focus and program performance. Our customers select us, and then continue to request us by name, time and again.

Spacecraft systems and subsystems engineering, mission planning, ground systems engineering and management, communications and network services are our core competencies. NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy and commercial customers around the world rely on our people.

Our award-winning team has been with NASA’s TDRSS since 1976, managing all nine spacecraft, the ground systems, software requirements, simulations, a major site upgrade, installations in Australia and Guam, and multi-contractor work teams. We supported highly demanding NASA customers while exceeding 99.98% overall service availability. At Goddard Space Flight Center, we continually have senior and staff-level engineers placed in launch and mission engineering activities on a variety of NASA missions.

We are further involved in NASA SMEX missions and ISS network management via our SpacePlex. Our legacy — a nearly 30-year record of flawlessly managing the government’s most critical space assets.

Our spacecraft engineering team at NAVSOC has supported the U.S. Navy for well over a decade, through three procurements, on FLTSAT, UFO, GFO and Polar EHF. Our mission teams at Kirtland provided life-cycle support to prototype and test spacecraft missions, including ARGOS, MightySat, TSX-5, RADCAL, REX and TEX. At Schriever (CERES), our team provided research and analyses on a variety of technologies as well as spacecraft engineering and operations support for numerous satellites flown from Schriever.