Access to Flight
You have hardware to prove. We're building the path to flight test.
How do you test a new sensor in the real environment? Validate a propulsion component under flight loads? Raise a payload's TRL with data a program office will accept? MKII Aerospace is being built to answer those questions, with the vehicle, the payload integration, and the mission engineering to get your experiment to altitude and the data back.
The Goddard Sounding Rocket System is designed for repeatable, recoverable suborbital flight, so flight can be treated like a test cycle, not a one-off.
Two ways to work with us
Fly with us, or get the engineering support to fly on your own.
Research Launch Services
A full-service flight: mission planning, payload integration, launch operations, recovery, and flight-data support. You bring the experiment, we run the mission.
Learn more →Engineering Support Services
Standalone mission engineering for teams flying on their own or another provider: payload integration, flight certification support, design reviews, launch-readiness reviews, and safety documentation.
Learn more →Access to Flight, Accelerated
Suborbital flight testing engineered to validate technology, advance research, and bridge the gap between concept and space qualification. Stated as design intent for GT-01 and the flights that follow.
Responsive Flight Access
The system is designed around recovery and reuse so flights can be scheduled on research timelines. The intent is to shorten the loop from concept to TRL advancement and flight data.
Flexible Payload Integration
Customizable suborbital architecture built to house scientific instruments, advanced sensors, propulsion technologies, CubeSats, and experimental materials.
Full Lifecycle Engineering Support
End-to-end mission partnership spanning payload reviews, flight certification, mission planning, launch execution, recovery operations, and post-flight data analysis.
Turnkey & In-House Rocket Systems
Access to the Goddard Sounding Rocket platform, available both as an all-inclusive launch service and as an in-house system for dedicated organizational flight capabilities.
Multi-Sector Interoperability
Purpose-built to support university space systems programs, commercial tech startups, and government defense testing within a single operational framework.
Affordable Flight Validation
A suborbital flight is intended as a lower-cost way to gather real environment data and build confidence in hardware before committing to an expensive orbital mission.
Built for the people who check the claims
Program offices and university PIs evaluate this carefully. Each entry point below speaks to how a flight fits your process.
University
Flight opportunities for PIs, labs, and student programs, sized for research budgets, with an interface teams can design to in a semester.
Learn more →Government
A flight-test path for TRL advancement, SBIR/STTR work, and defense technology testing, with the range-safety and readiness documentation programs expect.
Learn more →Commercial
De-risk hardware and gather real flight data before an orbital commitment. Evidence for your customers, partners, and investors.
Learn more →What we're building to be good at
These are the differentiators the MKII approach is designed around. Each is a design intent for GT-01 and the flights that follow, stated as capability, not flight heritage.
Responsive Scheduling
The Goddard system is designed around recovery and reuse so flights can be planned on research timelines, not multi-year manifests. The intent is to treat a flight like a test on the bench: schedule it, fly it, learn, iterate.
Flexible Payload Integration
A documented, standardized payload interface is a first-class part of the architecture. The goal is to reduce integration friction for sensors, propulsion test articles, CubeSats, and materials experiments, and to make the interface something a team can design to early.
Full Mission-Lifecycle Engineering Support
Payload reviews, flight certification support, mission planning, launch-readiness reviews, safety documentation, recovery, and post-flight data, available as one partnership or as standalone engineering support if you fly another way.
Documentation
Reference material for teams evaluating a flight with MKII. Published as each document is finalized. Ask us directly in the meantime.
Capability Statement
In preparationOne-page overview of MKII Aerospace: company profile, the Goddard Sounding Rocket System, service lines, and points of contact. Formatted for program-office and procurement review.
Payload Integration Guide
In preparationThe payload interface MKII is designing to: envelope and mass allocations, mechanical and electrical interfaces, environments, and the documentation an experiment team provides for integration.
Mission Planning Guide
In preparationHow a research flight comes together, from first inquiry through mission planning, launch-readiness review, flight, recovery, and flight-data delivery. Includes indicative timelines and the reviews at each gate.
Our Founders
Built by engineers and innovators with a shared vision for the future of aerospace.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does MKII Aerospace do?
MKII Aerospace is a flight-testing partner. 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 sounding rocket system, designed around recoverable, reusable suborbital 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.
Join the Talent Network
We're staying deliberately lean while we build. If you're a hands-on builder who wants real ownership, we'd like to meet you. We bring people in through project-based work and advisory collaborations, and convert to full-time as programs and funding mature.
Remote/on-site depends on role. Project-based + future full-time opportunities.