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XTERRA has designed and/or manufactured hardware that has successfully deployed over 400 satellites, developed over 20 unique designs, and has been building hardware for over 30 years. We design and manufacture cutting edge, electro-mechanical devices that change what you can do in space. Space rated mechanisms, satellite separation systems, CubeSat dispensers, and more.
Quad-M performed detail design, manufacturing and testing for sophisticated DoD custom orbital deployment systems. Hundreds of in-house microgravity tests were undertaken to ensure reliable deploy characteristics.
Customer: DoD
Quad-M performed detail design and developed custom chaff dispenser technology for Navy aircraft under SBIR contracts. Successfully completed Phase I, Phase II and Phase II options.
Customer: DoD
Quad-M Inc Founded
Founded by aerospace engineer Victor Dube in 1989
First unit flown - 2014
E-NRCSD
Quad-M designed, manufactured, tested and supplied ten External Nanoracks Cubesat Deployers. ENRCSDs were launched on the exterior of the Northrop-Grumman Cygnus ISS resupply vehicles, and deployed satellites after Cygnus had departed ISS.
Customer: Nanoracks
Unit flown - 2017
The first commercially operated 6U "doublewide" dispenser designed to deploy payloads from the ISS.
Customer: Nanoracks
2019 - First unit flown
Quad-M performed detail design, manufacturing, and testing under contract to SEOPS for the Equalizer cubesat deployer system, used to deploy CubeSats on SpaceX Transporter missions.
Customer: SEOPS
First stack flown - 2023
Units delivered - 2024
Primary Payload Separation System
XTERRA designed, manufactured and provided testing support for a custom 38” deployment system for Firefly Aerospace to deploy a primary payload from the Alpha Rocket.
Customer: Firefly
First unit flown - 2024
1989
Quad-M designed, manufactured, tested and supplied the Nanoracks Cubesat Deployers. Since 2014, NRCSDs have deployed over 300 CubeSats from the International Space Station. First commercially operated deployer used on the ISS.
Customer: Nanoracks
2016 - First unit flown
Quad-M designed, built, tested and supplied the Nanoracks Separation System used in 2017 to deploy the NovaWurks SIMPL satellite from ISS using the Nanoracks Kaber microsat deployer
Customer: Nanoracks
2017 - First unit flown
Quad-M performed detail design, manufacturing, and testing under contract to SEOPS for the Slingshot cubesat deployer system, used to deploy CubeSats from the Northrop-Grumman Cygnus ISS resupply vehicles after Cygnus had departed ISS.
Customer: SEOPS
First unit flown - 2022
Quad-M performed detail design, manufacturing, and testing under contract to Lynk for the a wholly custom solution, used to deploy multiple stacked smallsats with a flat form factor in series from a single mounting location on SpaceX Rideshare missions. Deployments performed on Transporter 6 & 10.
Customer: Lynk
2019-2023
XTERRA designed and built hybrid Cubesat dispensers planned to fly on Fireflys Elytra OTV.
Customer: Firefly
Units delivered - 2024
XTERRA designed and built the XCD-16U Cubesat dispenser system, used to deploy a cubesat on SpaceX Bandwagon-2 mission in late 2024. First 16U Dispenser.
Customer: Arrow
2024
2017
2018
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