Manufacturing > Dedicated IOD Mission (1U–16U)
Key highlights
Apogeo Space’s Dedicated IOD Mission gives your new technology its first flight aboard a complete satellite allocated exclusively to your mission. Instead of sharing resources on a hosted slot, you get full access to onboard power, computing, communications and data handling, plus software freedom on the onboard computer to run your own applications and experiments in orbit. Available from a compact 1U for a focused demonstration up to 16U for complex, multi-instrument missions, the platform adapts to your technology. It turns a ground-tested prototype into technology with real flight heritage.
- First flight for your technology – demonstrate it in the real space environment
- A satellite all to yourself – no shared power, computing, communications or data handling
- Software freedom – deploy and run your own applications on the onboard computer
- Full downlink capacity – all available data rates and bandwidth for your demonstration
- From 1U to 16U – sized to your technology and mission complexity
Applications
- First in-orbit demonstration of new technologies
- Startups and companies seeking flight heritage for their products
- Demonstrations requiring more power, volume or data than a hosted payload slot
- Multi-instrument demonstration missions (up to 16U)
- Institutional and research demonstration missions needing a dedicated spacecraft
Key features
IOD mission
- Purpose: first in-orbit demonstration of new technologies
- Dedicated spacecraft: exclusively allocated to your mission
- Software freedom: your own applications running on the onboard computer
- Smaller payload? See Apogeo Space’s Hosted Payload for In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD)
General
- Form factors: 1U to 16U
- Dedicated architecture: exclusive access to all onboard resources, no shared-resource constraints
- Payload mass: 0.5–12 kg
- Payload unit (service volume): 0.3U–10U
Electrical power
- Battery: 40 Wh
- Peak power: 20–40 W
- Average power: 3–20 W
Communications & data handling
- Primary communication: UHF / VHF / S-band
- Modulation: FSK, QPSK, MIL-STD
- Data storage: 128 GB
Attitude sensing
- Integrated sensors: sun sensor, Earth sensor, accelerometer, gyroscopes, magnetometer, star tracker
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Last updated: 2026-10-28
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