Access to flight
You have hardware to prove. We’re building the infrastructure and the path to make it happen.
The vehicle, the payload integration, the mission engineering, to get your experiment to altitude and the data back.
01 / What we do
Fly with us, or fly on your own.
Two ways to work with MKII: a full-service flight, or the engineering support to fly another way.
- 01Research Launch ServicesA full-service flight: mission planning, payload integration, launch operations, recovery and flight-data support. You bring the experiment; we run the mission.
- 02Engineering Support ServicesStandalone mission engineering for teams flying on their own or another provider: payload integration, flight certification support, design and launch-readiness reviews, and safety documentation.
02 / The vehicle
Goddard.
A fully reusable, two-stage sounding rocket. It flies research payloads and brings every stage home to fly again, so each flight is a step in a test program, not a one-off.
03 / Why MKII
Built to be good at the hard parts.
What the MKII approach is designed around. Each is design intent for GT-01 and the flights that follow, stated as capability, not flight heritage.
- Responsive
Flight as a test cycle
Built around recovery and reuse, so flights can be planned on research timelines rather than multi-year manifests: schedule it, fly it, learn, iterate.
- Integration
A payload interface you can design to
A documented, standardized interface for instruments, sensors, propulsion test articles, CubeSats and materials experiments, so teams can design to it early.
- Lifecycle
Engineering from review to recovery
Payload reviews, flight certification support, mission planning, launch-readiness reviews, safety documentation, recovery and post-flight data, as one partnership or standalone.
- Flexible
A service or a system
Fly on Goddard as an all-inclusive launch service, or bring the system in-house for dedicated organizational flight capability.
- Validation
Real flight data before orbit
A suborbital flight is meant as a lower-cost way to collect real-environment data and build confidence in hardware before committing to an orbital mission.
04 / Who we serve
Built for the people who check the claims.
Program offices and university PIs evaluate this carefully. Each path below speaks to how a flight fits your process.
- 01UniversityFlight opportunities for PIs, labs and student programs, sized for research budgets, with an interface teams can design to in a semester.Learn more →
- 02GovernmentA flight-test path for TRL advancement, SBIR/STTR work and defense technology testing, with the range-safety and readiness documentation programs expect.Learn more →
- 03CommercialDe-risk hardware and gather real flight data before an orbital commitment: evidence for your customers, partners and investors.Learn more →
05 / Where we’re going
Launch is the entry point.
We are building the networks that everyone else relies upon: communication, data, power and mobility; for science and research enablement.
The founders
Who’s building it.
Engineers and operators with a shared vision for the future of aerospace.
Questions
FAQ
What does MKII Aerospace do?
MKII Aerospace is a flight-testing partner and space infrastructure company. We are building the vehicle, payload integration, and mission engineering that let universities, government programs, and commercial teams get an experiment to suborbital altitude and recover its data, to validate technology, raise Technology Readiness Level (TRL), and collect flight data.
What is the Goddard Sounding Rocket System?
Goddard is MKII Aerospace’s fully reusable, two-stage sounding rocket, designed around recoverable flight so a launch can be treated like a repeatable test cycle. It is the platform behind MKII’s launch services and is also offered as a complete system for organizations that want launch capability in-house.
How can an organization work with MKII Aerospace?
Two ways: Research Launch Services (a full-service flight covering mission planning, payload integration, launch operations, recovery, and flight-data support), or Engineering Support Services (standalone mission engineering such as design reviews, flight certification support, and safety documentation).
Has the Goddard rocket flown yet?
The first Goddard test flight, GT-01, has not yet flown. Everything MKII Aerospace publishes about the system is stated as capability and design intent rather than demonstrated flight performance, and is updated as flight testing progresses.
Get started
Tell us what you’re trying to fly.
We’ll tell you where it fits, and work with you from integration through recovery.