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Designing & Building Cameras
Delivering optical systems for harsh space environments.
Space Cameras
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MSSS designs innovative, space-qualified cameras and instruments that deliver high performance within strict mass, volume, power, cost, and schedule constraints. Customers can choose custom-built systems or the modular ECAM platform for faster, lower-cost missions.

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Operating Cameras in Space
Managing daily camera commands and data downlink.
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MSSS brings decades of spaceflight operations expertise, maximizing mission data return through advanced computing, data storage, and custom ground systems. MSSS has acquired and processed hundreds of thousands of images and delivers validated NASA data to PDS.

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Science & Analysis
Interpreting images for scientific discovery.
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MSSS camera designs are guided by decades of scientific expertise. Its scientists have served on more than a dozen NASA missions, studying Mars, Venus, the Moon, asteroids, and other worlds while advancing our understanding of planetary history.

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Camera Systems and Services for Space Missions

At Malin Space Science Systems, we design, build, and operate advanced imaging systems and scientific instruments for space exploration missions. Since our founding in 1990, we have supported NASA and other partners on missions to Mars, the Moon, Jupiter, asteroids, and beyond. Our cameras have returned vast collections of images that help scientists better understand planetary surfaces, climates, and histories. We combine engineering expertise with active scientific research to ensure our instruments not only capture data, but also enable discovery. Through this work, we help expand humanity’s understanding of the Solar System.