Nextage

Nextage LLC is a Columbia, Maryland aerospace engineering services company and spacecraft hardware manufacturer founded in 2014, with a European office in Delft, Netherlands.^[1][2] Iain Miller is listed as the principal contact.^[1][2]

On the hardware side, Nextage manufactures COTS spacecraft electronics and test equipment. The NMC (Nextage Modular Computer) is a radiation-tolerant on-board computer in a 1U CubeSat form factor (96x96x28 mm, less than 90 g) built around the Microchip RT PolarFire FPGA SoC, with 461 KLUTs, 1 Gbit DDR4 with ECC, 500 Mb SSD, dual 1 Gbit Ethernet, and PCIe Gen2.^[3] The NTU (Nextage Test Unit) is a 2Ux19-inch rack FlatSat and EGSE with six modular interface card slots, 48 digital GPIO, 8-channel DAC/ADC, and RS422/485 interfaces, designed to simulate NMC-based spacecraft.^[3] The NextMAG is a Raspberry Pi-based 3-axis magnetometer system with GPS and IMU, available commercially for educational and research use.^[4] The Compact Instrument Purge System provides portable real-time gas flow control and 12-channel remote monitoring for spacecraft integration and transport.^[3]

On the services side, Nextage provides automated electrical test equipment development, spacecraft and payload simulator design, harness analysis and design (IPC/WHMA-A-620 and NASA-STD-8739.4 certified), electrical circuit design, electrical systems engineering, environmental test, and ground systems and mission operations support.^[5]

Programme heritage includes JPSS, Landsat 9, TRACERS, Mars Sample Return, TIRS-2, Europa Clipper, DART, GPM, RBSP, and SWFO-L1.^[6]