Separation
Systems

Advanced, lightweight hardware
with 100% mission success

ADVANCED,LIGHTWEIGHT SEPARATION MECHANISMS

Our separation systems have enabled customers to lower their mission costs and streamline payload integration time from days to just minutes.

Our Advanced Lightband is the next generation in space vehicle separation systems. Increasing performance and decreasing lead time.

Our fully-encapsulated Canisterized Satellite Dispensers (CSD) that provides a reliable and cost-effective housing for CubeSat payloads, that minimizes damage risk and eliminates the necessity for heavy or complicated interface structures between satellite and launch vehicle.

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Our Engineering Philosophy

“We build the best separation systems because we don’t compromise on proving reliability. Ours is a history of innovation followed by intense and rewarding engineering to prove reliability. By this method, we contribute our best work.”

Advanced Lightband

The Advanced Lightband is an innovative, lightweight, and compact mechanical separation system used to separate spacecrafts from launch vehicles on orbit. The Advanced Lightband has never failed to separate on orbit for any mission.

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Motorized Lightband

The Mark II Motorized Lightband (MLB) is the original in motorized vehicle separation systems. It boasts a heritage of perfect flight under every condition imaginable.

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Satellite Dispensers

Rocket Lab's Satellite Dispensers are a reliable, flexible, and cost-effective deployment mechanisms, easily adaptable to a mission's needs.

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Sub Assemblies & Accessories

Designed by PSC, accessories provide valuable mission and integration functionality, supporting a wide array of in-flight and ground-test applications. Accessories are a valuable tool whenever signal transfer is required across low-force interfaces. All Accessories are NASA Technology Readiness Level 9 (TRL-9).

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Flight Heritage

20+ years of flight heritage

Launch Vehicle
Launch Date
Mission
System Size (in, U)
System Type
Organizations
Electron
18-Feb-25
Fasten Your Space Belts
24
ALB
Blacksky (Gen-3 satellite)
Falcon 9
4-Feb-25
Maxar 3
24
MLB
WorldView (Legion-6)
Falcon 9
4-Feb-25
Maxar 3
24
MLB
WorldView (Legion-5)
Falcon 9
14-Jan-25
Transporter-12
24
MLB
D-Orbit (ION OTV Amazing Antonius)
Falcon 9
14-Jan-25
Transporter-12
24
ALB
D-Orbit (ION OTV Eminent Emmanuel)
Falcon 9
14-Jan-25
Transporter-12
11
ALB
LEO Express-2 (Mira OTV)
Falcon 9
14-Jan-25
Transporter-12
8
MLB
UTIAS (JAY-C)
Falcon 9
14-Jan-25
Transporter-12
8
MLB
UTIAS (JAY-D1)
Falcon 9
14-Jan-25
Transporter-12
8
MLB
UTIAS (JAY-D2)
Falcon 9
14-Jan-25
Transporter-12
8
MLB
UTIAS (NORSAT-4)

*Launch vehicle failed. We count this event as a unit built but not a mission success.