Standardizing Payload Integration for Microgravity.
Narravity is developing HEX System, a standardized modular payload integration system designed to simplify how experiments are integrated and flown on suborbital rockets.
We connect researchers, launch providers, and spaceports through a repeatable approach to payload integration and mission preparation.
The experiment may be unique. The integration process doesn’t have to be.
Launching an experiment shouldn’t mean reinventing the integration process.
Suborbital rockets offer opportunities to investigate scientific and commercial questions in microgravity. But every experiment must still meet the requirements of its flight platform, including physical interfaces, safety documentation, configuration, qualification, and mission readiness.
Narravity is developing HEX System to help standardize that work, making payload accommodation more repeatable for launch providers and the path to flight clearer for experiment customers.
Prepare
Define experiment objectives, payload requirements, operating constraints, and the information needed to evaluate a potential mission.
Integrate
Use a standardized modular payload integration approach, with interfaces and acceptance requirements evaluated for each mission.
Fly & Deliver
Coordinate mission readiness, payload handoffs, flight activities, applicable recovery, and post-flight closeout.
A standardized modular system for unique experiments.
HEX System is being developed to accommodate different research and commercial experiments through a repeatable payload integration architecture. Rather than creating an entirely new approach for each experiment, HEX aims to establish common physical integration practices, documented requirements, and a consistent mission process.
Modular
Designed to accommodate different experiment configurations within a common integration architecture.
Standardized
Defined requirements, interfaces, and documentation support more consistent payload preparation.
Repeatable
A common integration approach is intended to reduce unnecessary custom work from one payload to the next.
Expandable
Initial development focuses on suborbital missions, with future configurations and applications envisioned over time.
The initial development approach focuses on passive experiments, with approximately 2U–4U payload volume configurations. Active experiments may also be considered, subject to technical and mission-specific review.
One system. Three essential partners.
Narravity’s approach brings together the organizations developing experiments, the providers flying them, and the spaceports supporting mission operations.
Researchers & R&D Teams
A clearer process for assessing, preparing, and integrating experiments for potential microgravity missions.
Launch Providers
A standardized payload integration approach designed to help accommodate experiment customers and support repeatable mission preparation.
Spaceports
Opportunities to develop more consistent payload processing, qualification, and future certification practices as the system matures.
A defined process from experiment to flight.
Narravity is developing repeatable processes for experiment assessment, payload requirements, qualification, HEX integration, mission readiness, flight coordination, and closeout. Specific responsibilities and acceptance requirements depend on the mission and launch provider.
1 — Assess
Understand the experiment, objectives, hardware status, and potential mission requirements.
2 — Qualify
Review technical characteristics, interfaces, documentation, safety, and acceptance requirements.
3 — Integrate
Configure the payload for HEX and coordinate applicable flight-provider interfaces.
4 — Fly & Close
Support mission readiness, flight coordination, applicable recovery, and delivery of mission records.
Could your experiment be a fit for HEX?
You don’t need a flight-ready payload to start a conversation. Tell us what you want to learn, what hardware you have developed, your approximate experiment size and operating needs, and when you would ideally like to fly. We can help identify the information needed to evaluate a potential mission.
Payload suitability, including batteries, liquids, biological materials, pressure, heating, and moving parts, requires mission-specific technical assessment.
Let’s make microgravity integration more repeatable.
Whether you’re developing an experiment, operating a launch platform, or exploring payload processing at a spaceport, we’d welcome a conversation.