Separation
Systems

Advanced, lightweight hardware
with 100% mission success

Planetary Systems Corp (PSC) has delivered hundreds of satellite separation systems with 100% mission success for over 20 years.

Since 1998, PSC’s Lightband 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.

PSC’s 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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The PSC 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

The Canisterized Satellite Dispenser (CSD) is a reliable and cost-effective deployment mechanism for small secondary or tertiary payloads.

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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

PSC & Rocket Lab have designed, built, and delivered separation systems for the following missions. PSC products have a 100% success rate - no product has ever failed to operate in flight.

Launch Vehicle
Launch Date
Mission
System Size (in, U)
System Type
Organizations
Electron
2-Apr-22
"Without Mission a Beat"
11.732
MLB Mk II
BlackSky Global Z1, BlackSky Global Z2
Falcon 9
1-Apr-22
Transporter-4
8
MLB Mk II
UTIAS - Hawkeye 4A, 4B, 4C
Falcon 9
1-Apr-22
Transporter-4
24
MLB Mk II
D-Orbit
Falcon 9
1-Apr-22
Transporter-4
8
ALB
PlanetIQ - GNOMES-3
Falcon 9
1-Apr-22
Transporter-4
15
MLB Mk II
Lynk Tower 01
Atlas 5
21-Jan-22
USSF-8
23.25
MLB Mk II
NGC Tenacious3, Space Force
Antares
19-Feb-22
Cygnus NG-17
11.732
MLB Mk II
NGC, NASA
Falcon 9
13-Jan-22
Transporter-3
11.732
MLB Mk II
Capella
Falcon 9
13-Jan-22
Transporter-3
13
MLB Mk II
ISIS/L
Falcon 9
13-Jan-22
Transporter-3
15
MLB Mk II
Umbra

*Launch vehicle failed. PSC counts this event as a unit built but not a mission success.