National Security Space - Satellites & Space Mission Systems

As a systems integrator, we don’t force your challenge into a pre-determined solution. By identifying customers' most important needs first, SNC develops and allocates those requirements across all elements of the system and conducts trades to determine the most cost-effective approach. We use a global system of partnerships to integrate the right combination of capabilities in the space, ground and launch segments to design and achieve your optimum mission.

We have multi-program experience with the industry-standard Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) in both the Standard and Grande configurations and have launched satellites as secondary payloads using a variety of accommodations.

SNC can integrate hosted payloads onto a variety of missions, providing additional cost-share or revenue-enhancing opportunities for our customers. We have a variety of contractual mechanisms that enable implementation of hosted payloads.

We design satellites with a line-replaceable unit (LRU) mentality, with easy access to key components and separation of payload and bus integration efforts into parallel workflows. This greatly reduces the schedule required for system integration and gives payload developers maximum flexibility prior to space vehicle assembly and test. 

Our cost-efficient approach to mission engineering, satellite design, production and launch optimization, including incorporation of up-screened cubesat components where appropriate, supports disaggregated and lower cost approaches that are not only mission effective, but also affordable.