Fly Faster

Modular Aerospace is on a mission to decrease time constant of aerospace. This means your aerospace systems flying in less time, producing them at a higher pace, and operating them at higher performance levels. In order to do this, modularity is key. Modular Aerospace’s technologies and Modular Avionics products solve this by utilizing a robust, affordable, and scalable architecture.

Domains: Aviation, Space, Lunar, Ground, Hypersonics

Systems: Avionics, Payloads, HUMS, Instrumentation

This site presents a snapshot of the Modular Aerospace’s Avionics products. Contact us to evaluate your mission and system needs. Our products are ready to support your team in production, system qualification, and testing. Our team and partners are ready to support your mission and provide optimized solutions and support where needed.

TM

  • Standard interfaces to enable modularity. Mechanical, Electrical, and Software interfaces facilitating rapid integration of systems. The standards utilize proven components and scalable protocols in order to simplify integration. Learn more about Modular Aerospace Avionics Interface Standard (MAAIS)

  • Commercial-Off-The-Shelf products providing many of the needed component level technologies for aerospace systems. Learn more about Modular Aerospace Products

  • Supporting your mission with application specific engineering design, system production, and testing. Contact Modular Aerospace to evaluate which integration partner may be a good fit.

  • Not every mission should be developed with modularity. We work with customers to develop optimized solutions leveraging the existing design portfolio and interface standards. See Custom

Why Modular?

Domains

Select a domain for avionics design and knowledge base:

To be clear

  • Customer Mission: Provide the value their system offers, often for a market opportunity that already exists.

  • Modular Aerospace Mission: Have the latest avionics technologies available enabling customers to rapidly develop, produce, and evolve; ultimately serving their market sooner.

  • Partners (Vendors, Integrators): Bring their capabilities and technologies into the ecosystem to be leveraged by customers.

Our success is enabling customers to focus on their specific values, their customers, and missions. The COTS technologies, custom avionics, and integration services should not be something customers have to worry about. They should just work.

 TEchnology

Modular Aerospace’s patented IP enables very compact robust avionics which are highly configurable. The Low Power Interface (LPI) allows for very tight integration

The basics:

  • The architecture is network-based power and data distribution.

  • The standard interfaces are used to enable rapid integration of various capabilities.

  • Patented interface allows for high SWaP, LRU style integration, and is rugged at a module level.

  • COTS products allow rapid procurement and integration of popular features, accounting for ~80% of a system design.

  • Optimized and custom services are available to resolve specific capabilities of a requirement.

Patent: US 2024/0195094 A1

Going Modular

1. Mission Requirements

To evaluate the fit of any avionics for your mission, have clear mission requirements of what features and performance are required. What does it need to do, what operating modes should it support, what may change, and what reliability is required?

Consider your system’s regulation, certification requirements, and your plan for qualification in the requirements development.

2. Avionics Plan

Evaluate if the network-based architecture can support your mission. Our team and partners can help you with this if needed. If it does, logically groups features and functions into zones in preparation for selecting a solution. This of what it will do, how it will be powered, and how it may communicate at any time in the mission

If the network based architecture is not suitable, the underlying technologies may be reconfigured and optimized to fit your mission’s needs. Reach out, and let’s evaluate.

3. Selection

Proposed solutions should be evaluated for safety, performance, size, mass, cost, and availability. Fit can be verified with virtual models of the proposed configuration. Thermal, mass, network and power budgets can confirm the performance of all operating modes.

Failure modes should be considered in combination with component ratings and system design to assess meeting reliability requirements.

4. Procure

With a selection, the parallel effort starts!

  • Avionics, sensors, actuators, 3rd party equipment procurement

  • Custom Cables and fixture manufacturing

  • Mission software development and device configuration

  • Custom Avionics development and production

  • Assembly and avionics testing

5. Integration

Integrate avionics onto the mission platform. Verify all performance specifications are met and validate system capabilities are suitable for the mission.

6. Operation

Operate the system! Though too many unknowns to tell you how to operate your system here, but good rules of thumb include ensuring a positive power budget is maintained, adequate data recording memory is available, system times are in sync, and all systems are in good health for safe and predictable operation!

7. Disposal

Modular Avionics modules are design to last! Consider reuse of the products on your next mission! If you need to dispose of the hardware, please return to Modular Aerospace for safe disposal which will include clearing all user data followed by an internal disposal process.