Aegis Aerospace, Inc. (Houston, TX) is a pioneer of commercial Space Testing as a Service (STaaS). The company owns and operates the MISSE platform installed on the ISS for external orbital testing of a wide range of technologies including powered electronics, solar cells, and materials. With a roughly six-month cadence of launches and experiment returns, customers can rapidly advance the readiness level of their active or passive technology in low Earth orbit at an affordable price. Alpha Space was founded in 2015 and is a minority woman owned business and has AS9100 & ISO9001 certification.