The SSL 1300 is the world’s most popular spacecraft platform, designed to accommodate evolutionary technology advances. It was one of the first spacecraft platforms to provide solar electric propulsion (SEP) and has been used to demonstrate next-generation technologies including Q/V-band, photonics and a payload orbital delivery system (PODS) that brings small free-flying spacecraft to GEO.
SSL's 1300 platform features a lightweight and high-strength structure, fuel-efficient attitude and station-keeping subsystems, high-efficiency and reliable solar arrays and batteries, and advanced command and control subsystems.
| 1 = Solar Array 2 = Propulsion Tank 3 = OSR (Optical Solar Reflector 4 = Tower Structure 5 = Stationary Plasma Thruster 6 = Antenna Reflector 7 = Antenna Subreflector 8 = Communications Panel Electronics |
9 = SCE (Spacecraft Control Electronics) 10 = Thruster 11 = Antenna Feed 12 = Earth Sensor 13 = Thermal Blanket 14 = TWTA 15 = Batteries 16 = TT&C Antenna |
SSL is ISO 9001 and AS9100 certified