Ecliptic: Systems for Accessing and Experiencing Space and Other Extreme Environments

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Ecliptic is a space-technology firm operating commercial, civil and defense markets, with core competencies in:

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  • Avionics systems
  • Sensors and instrumentation
  • Embedded software
  • Test and ground-control equipment
  • Mission and systems architecting and engineering

Ecliptic designs, builds and tests hardware that gets launched, flown or used in the field. We're often involved with headline-making and award-winning projects, applying our extensive experience in the design, analysis, assembly, test and operations of aerospace systems and subsystems. Our staff's combined experience includes many dozens of space missions and aerospace projects. From the Big Picture to the details, we know our business.

Our family of compact, rugged avionics control units allow aerospace system designers to delegate nearly all control and monitoring of a given subsystem to one of these avionics units, simplifying subsystem interfaces — and everyone's lives.

We are the world's leading supplier of rugged video systems for use on rockets and spacecraft — our popular RocketCam™ product family — and enjoy a top-drawer client base in the commercial, civil and defense arenas. We also provide one of the most cost-effective systems for getting small payloads into space: RocketPod™.

We serve three growing and related markets:

  • "Classic" aerospace, civil, scientific and R&D projects
  • "Small, micro and nano" space efforts demanding affordable and responsive systems
  • "Entrepreneurial" aerospace enterprises (NewSpace) demanding cost-effective avionics solutions and onboard imaging capabilities providing unique space-themed imagery addressing space adventure/tourism, media, edutainment and advertising objectives

From past and current associations, we have an extensive network of world-class professionals from engineering, science, media, entrepreneurial and academic arenas who know how to get things done. As we face new challenges, we are proud to count them as reliable colleagues and collaborators.

Where is your vision focused? Earth orbit? Air, land or sea? Moon, Mars or near-Earth asteroids? Ecliptic's creative, nimble and proactive team is a resource that can help you take advantage of the opportunities presented by these rapidly growing and evolving markets.

Strategic Partners

Strategic Partner with NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA
Ames is one of NASA's field centers and leads the agency's efforts in very small (micro- and nano-) spacecraft and small robotic lunar landers. Since 2007 Ecliptic and Ames have had a Memorandum of Understanding in place to collaborate in five areas: projects involving imaging and sensor technology for use on-board rockets, space vehicles and space systems; projects involving small secondary space payloads and related carrier systems; projects involving techniques, methods and technologies for transporting, archiving, assessing and displaying imagery and data derived from the aforementioned imaging, sensor and secondary payload systems; development and demonstration of new and/or novel commercial-government relationships and partnerships for enabling and supporting all of the above.
Solution Provider for Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) Malvern, PA
AGI provides the leading brand of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products to the aerospace industry: The Satellite Tool Kit (STK) software suite. As an AGI Solution Provider, Ecliptic integrates and applies STK to the emerging space market segment of commercial and entrepreneurial deep-space missions and related space-technology and infrastructure development activities worldwide.
Solution Provider for Space Adventures, Ltd. Arlington, VA
Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company and the only company to have successfully launched private space explorers to the International Space Station, offers a variety of programs such as Zero-Gravity and MiG flights, cosmonaut training, spaceflight qualification programs and reservations on future suborbital spacecraft. In early 2005 Space Adventures announced an agreement with Ecliptic to utilize Ecliptic's RocketCam systems as a flight option for orbital and suborbital spaceflight clients.
Business Development Partnership with Thermoteknix Systems, Ltd. Cambridge, England
Thermoteknix is well established as a leading supplier of OEM electronics and software to many of the world's major manufacturers of infrared cameras, and also develops infrared image and signal processing solutions for the industrial and scientific sectors.
Corporate Member of Entretech Pasadena, CA
Entretec works with entrepreneurial businesses in the Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley area, providing connections and independent leads on potential partners, technology, management and financing, as well as networking and mentoring events for early-stage companies.
Website host for Interplanetary Internet Special Interest Group (IPNSIG)
The objective of the Interplanetary Internet project is to define the architecture and protocols necessary to permit interoperation of the Internet resident on Earth with other remotely located internets resident on other planets or spacecraft in transit. The IPNSIG defines and manages this pioneering effort.

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