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Payload integration services and launch campaign operations

ALS takes a payload from early requirements through separation on orbit: the systems engineering, the mechanical and electrical accommodation, the analysis that proves it survives the ride, and the campaign that flies it. More than 10 missions, a 100% mission success rate, and a 100% on-time rate.

Payload Integration Services

A consistent history of successful, on-time systems engineering, design, and analysis.

ALS performs every service needed to make your payload ready for launch. Systems engineering, analysis, mechanical adapters, electrical harnesses, flight computers and more are within our scope. ALS responsive engineering has proven to retire risks early, making for smooth, controlled satellite integration efforts.

ALS has a 100% mission success rate, and a 100% on-time rate, over more than 10 space missions.

  • Mechanical and electrical payload accommodations
  • Early requirements capture, flowdown, and verification
  • Coupled loads, thermal, and separation analysis

Launch & Integration Operations

On-time integration, mission after mission, even under pressure.

ALS runs the launch campaign from end to end. We receive payloads, get them onto the stack, close out the fairing, and support all operations until (and after) launch. We ensure that failures happen early, leading to mission success.

That work supports more than 10 successful space missions, including one mission going from Authorization To Proceed to launch in less than 3 months.

  • More than 10 successful missions
  • ATP to launch in less than 3 months
  • Payload receiving through post-launch support
Three technicians in cleanroom garments working around a payload adapter barrel, its circular payload interface plates exposed.
Three ALS staff in cleanroom garments standing in front of an assembled payload adapter structure.
Technicians in full cleanroom suits kneeling beside a payload adapter during integration, a gold-covered component mounted on its face.
An ALS team gathered around an adapter deck on a handling table beneath a lifting hoist, the ALS logo on the wall behind them.
A combined customer and ALS team photographed in the cleanroom alongside an integrated payload stack.
An integrated payload stack under an EMI-static shield being lifted by overhead crane onto its transport pallet.
A contamination inspection under ultraviolet light, a technician surveying the payload adapter in a darkened high bay.
Credit: NASA
The payload stack positioned beside a launch vehicle fairing half ahead of mating to the payload attach fitting.
A satellite mounted on its adapter during fairing encapsulation, the fairing half closing around it.
The encapsulated Landsat 9 payload being lifted into the launch vehicle integration tower at night.
The full integration team assembled in the cleanroom around a completed payload stack before transport.

Tell us about your payload, your vehicle, and your schedule. We'll get you flying in no time.

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