Manufacturing > Dedicated IOV Mission (1U–16U)
Key highlights
Apogeo Space’s Dedicated IOV Mission lets you validate components, subsystems or complete products in orbit aboard a satellite allocated exclusively to your mission. With full access to onboard power, computing, communications and data handling, you can operate and characterise your hardware in real space conditions over the mission lifetime. Full downlink capacity returns your validation data, while an integrated sensor suite (sun and Earth sensors, accelerometer, gyroscopes, magnetometer and star tracker) provides reference data. Available from 1U to 16U, it delivers the in-orbit evidence customers and mission primes require.
- Validate in real conditions – operate and characterise your hardware in orbit
- A satellite all to yourself – exclusive access to all onboard resources
- Full downlink capacity – all available data rates and bandwidth for your validation data
- Rich sensor suite – reference attitude and environment data from integrated sensors
- From 1U to 16U – sized to the hardware you need to validate
Applications
- In-orbit validation of components, subsystems and complete products
- Validation of products before commercialization or adoption in larger missions
- Companies building in-orbit evidence for their product catalogue
- Validation campaigns requiring more power, volume or data than a hosted payload slot
- Institutional and scientific missions requiring validated hardware
Key features
IOV mission
- Purpose: in-orbit validation of components, subsystems and products
- Dedicated spacecraft: exclusively allocated to your mission
- Validation data: full downlink capacity and integrated reference sensors
- Smaller payload? See Apogeo Space’s Hosted Payload for In-Orbit Validation (IOV)
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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