Ecuadorian Space Agency

EXA is an aerospace research and development institution that designs and builds extreme hardware for CubeSats, with more than 3 years of record-setting flight heritage in extreme conditions; products include 1U to 3U deployable solar arrays, powerful slim batteries, titanium structures and mechanical components on demand, magnetorquers, deployable antennas, active artificial muscles and their unique NEMEA MLI anti-radiation, thermal control shields.

EXA’s technology is singular, original, simple, solid and dependable and allows CubeSat developers to use COTS components in order to break the limitations of budget and power typical of the 1U form factor, their deployable hardware is based over EXA’s unique Active Artificial Muscle technology for a dependable, proven and anti-whiplash deploy of challenging mechanical elements. Flight heritage from NEE-01 PEGASUS and NEE-02 KRYSAOR backs their technology which is currently in use in the challenging U.S. market.