L2S Educate can be used for:

• Space engineering education and practical training
• University payload development
• Student satellite projects
• Early-stage payload prototyping
• Payload software development
• Payload-to-spacecraft interface development
• Onboard processing and AI development
• Sensor and instrument development
• Mission concept development
• Early technology maturation
• Hardware-in-the-loop development
• Preparation for future CubeSat and small-satellite missions
• Development of technologies that may ultimately progress to flight

The platform can also be used independently as an engineering and education environment where no flight mission is planned.

Physical Payload Housing Unit
A physical interface environment that allows users to develop and integrate their payload or technology against a representative spacecraft interface.

Satellite simulation software
Simulation software provides a virtual spacecraft and mission environment against which the payload can be developed and tested.

Physical-to-simulated integration
The combination of physical hardware and software simulation allows users to work with an actual payload interface while interacting with a simulated satellite.

Payload development
Users can develop hardware and/or software for their payload while testing its interaction with the simulated spacecraft environment.

Interface development
Explore provides an environment for developing and testing the interfaces between a payload and its host spacecraft.

Hardware-in-the-loop development
Where supported by the configuration, the physical payload can participate in a simulated mission environment, providing a step beyond software-only simulation.

Education and training
Explore provides students and early-career engineers with hands-on experience in spacecraft payload development and integration.

Early technology development
Researchers and technology developers can use Explore to develop and refine technologies before committing to a representative environmental test or flight opportunity.

Standalone capability
Explore does not require progression to another Lab2Space product. A customer can use the platform for education, development, prototyping or research without proceeding to flight.

Pathway to flight
Where appropriate, technologies developed using Explore can subsequently progress through the Lab2Space technology maturation pathway toward validation and demonstration.

The standard L2S Educate configuration provides the Payload Housing Unit and associated simulation environment.

Configuration and integration requirements may vary according to the payload, technology and intended application.

Additional engineering support, interface development, simulation configuration or integration work can be provided where required.

L2S Educate is an education and early-stage technology development platform and is a flight system leveraged in other L2S products. It is designed to enable payload and technology development prior to a representative environmental or orbital demonstration.

Flight heritage is therefore not applicable to the Explore product itself, but it is ready should the user decide to move to other testing options or even an orbital payload.

The L2S Educate platform comprises a physical Payload Housing Unit and associated simulation software.

The Payload Housing Unit provides the physical development and interface environment, while the software provides the simulated spacecraft and mission environment.

Manufacturing and assembly details are available as part of the product documentation.

L2S Educate is a development and simulation platform and is a flight-qualified spacecraft payload interface.

The platform is intended for education, prototyping and early-stage technology development.

Testing and development performed using Explore may contribute evidence toward subsequent technology validation and qualification activities.

Export control requirements depend on the technology being developed and the applicable jurisdiction. Customers are responsible for determining and complying with applicable export-control requirements.

Lab2Space currently supplies L2S Educate directly.

L2S Educate is intended for universities, research organisations, space technology developers, start-ups and educational institutions developing payloads and space technologies.