August 2006

Octant participated in the AIAA, Space  2006 Conference & Exposition, in San Jose, CA. The conference was held from 19-21 September, 2006.

This was an opportunity for the company to promote and demo several of it's innovative products while visitors and exhibitors had the chance to meet and chat with out engineers.

Octant plans on continually participating in future industry related events. Please keep visiting our website for details.

More information about the AIAA conference can be found at:

May 2006
Octant Technologies' Orion/MMS^® Product will soon fully support the CompactPCI (cPCI) Platform in addition to the VME (VME64x) Platform.

Octant views cPCI support to be in-line with current embedded-systems applications and customer needs.

Support for cPCI also allows Octant to provide its customers with latest state-of-the-art PowerPC Processors available in the market to satisfy processor-intensive applications while providing speed, efficiency and reliability.

Also coming soon is support for National Instruments' industry popular LabVIEW® Platform. For more details, please contact our Sales Team.

April 2005

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) XSS-11 experimental satellite system is now in Orbit!

In 2001 AFRL awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems (LM) a contract to design, build, and flight demonstrate the Experimental Satellite System (XSS-11) micro-satellite for autonomous on-orbit operations. 

As part of Lockheed's team, Octant Technologies has been responsible for the design & development of the onboard guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C), flight software development, flight software integration and test, ground support software, and mission simulator for this experimental satellite.

After completion of the the development phase of the satellite, AFRL successfully launched the XSS-11 satellite in April 2005.

Draper Laboratory, Science Application International Corporation (SAIC), and Broad Reach Engineering are other LM team members on this project.