SAN FRANCISCO – Samara Aerospace’s patented satellite-pointing technology will soon be tested in orbit on an Impulse Space Mira orbital transfer vehicle launching on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare.

In ground-based testing, Samara has shown that all elements of the company’s Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC) technology can survive launch forces and work well in orbit.

Flying the Cicada payload on a Mira vehicle offers “the first all-up test, where MSAC will experience launch, vacuum, temperature cycles and show that it produces the same forces and torques in space that we have shown in the lab,” Samara Aerospace co-founder and chief technology officer Vedant told SpaceNews .

“That is the final step for convincing our customers that this new technology is just as

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