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XTERRA has designed and/or manufactured hardware that has successfully deployed over 350 satellites, developed over 20 unique designs, and has been building hardware for over 30 consecutive 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 several 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 large flat satellites 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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