Microcosm Inc is an aerospace company specializing in the reduction of space mission costs. The firm's experience covers commercial, military, and scientific missions from small, low-cost programs to multi-billion dollar, multi-satellite constellations and a family of launch vehicles. The launch vehicle division of Microcosm is developing, alongside the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the Scorpius family of ultra-low-cost launch vehicles, with projected recurring launch costs of: 800 lbs to LEO for $3.0 million (Sprite) and 13,000 lbs to LEO for for $9.0 million (Exodus). The firm is developing technology applicable to low-cost rockets and extendible from light lift to heavy lift launch to orbit, including new low-cost propulsion, avionics, and structures. A primary focus of Microcosm's Space Systems Division (SSD) is space mission architecting, mission and systems engineering, and related orbit and attitude analysis services. Microcosm has worked with most small-spacecraft prime contractors and has performed mission and systems engineering for many large commercial and government programs, including Iridium, GPS, Teledesic, and Discover II, while addressing a variety of system engineering areas including spacecraft, navigation, attitude, orbit control systems design, orbit control performance analyses, on-board autonomy, constellation design, coverage analysis, mission utility assessment, and cost estimation.
