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November 17, 2025. Exhibiting the GALAXY Space Link Extension (SLE)The Hammers Company’s GALAXY® spacecraft command and ...
12/02/2025

November 17, 2025. Exhibiting the GALAXY Space Link Extension (SLE)
The Hammers Company’s GALAXY® spacecraft command and control MOC software is used for real-time operations of 9 spacecraft for UC Berkeley at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL). The Berkeley spacecraft operations includes THEMIS (5 spacecraft, 2 orbiting the moon and 3 in elliptical earth orbits), NuSTAR, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (CGO), and ESCAPADE Blue & Gold (2 spacecraft heading toward L2). Communications compatibility with numerous ground stations around the world is a critical capability supported by Galaxy. Galaxy’s Space Link Extension (SLE) also enables communications through NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN).
(Courtesy of UC Berkeley) “…image captured from the "DSN Now" website last night. By chance, 5 of the (now) 9 spacecraft we operate were downlinking simultaneously through the DSN. THEMIS C at the moon, ESCAPADE Blue and Gold heading toward L2, and Carruthers (CGO) getting close to L1. All are controlled with Galaxy of course, and all of them are interfaced to the DSN with your SLE module. Things have gone well so far, but nearly continuous coverage of two spacecraft [ESCAPADE blue & gold] simultaneously through DSN keeps us busy…”

CONGRATULATIONS on the successful launch of the NASA Escapade spacecraft!November 13, 2025. “NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and...
11/26/2025

CONGRATULATIONS on the successful launch of the NASA Escapade spacecraft!
November 13, 2025. “NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) twin spacecraft have deployed from the Blue Origin New Glenn second stage. The spacecraft will go into a kidney bean-shaped Earth-proximity phase lasting roughly a year, before initiating a trans-Mars Injection engine burn sometime in November 2026….The ESCAPADE mission is the first coordinated multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to the Red Planet. Its twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around Mars. The observations will reveal the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time…”
ESCAPADE is led by the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, which is responsible for mission management, systems engineering, science leadership, navigation, operations, the electron & ion electrostatic analyzers, and science data processing and archiving.
(Credit NASA, UC Berkeley: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/escapade/2025/11/13/nasas-twin-escapade-spacecraft-have-deployed/ ; https://escapade.ssl.berkeley.edu/ )
The Hammers Company’s GALAXY® spacecraft command and control system is used for real-time operations of the Escapade spacecraft alongside Carruthers, THEMIS and NuSTAR at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), all spacecraft are operated using GALAXY®.

CONGRATULATIONS on the successful launch of the NASA Carruthers spacecraft!September 24, 2025. “NASA’s Carruthers Geocor...
11/18/2025

CONGRATULATIONS on the successful launch of the NASA Carruthers spacecraft!
September 24, 2025. “NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On – L1 (SWFO-L1) launched together on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on their way to Lagramersmnge point 1, an orbit approximately 1 million miles from Earth toward the Sun.” Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a collaboration with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with Dr. Lara Waldrop serving as the mission’s principal investigator; the University of California, Berkeley; and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. (Credit NASA, BAE, UC Berkeley; https://science.nasa.gov/mission/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/ )
The Hammers Company’s GALAXY® spacecraft command and control MOC software is used for real-time operations of the Carruthers spacecraft alongside THEMIS and NuSTAR at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), all spacecraft operated using GALAXY. The GALAXY command encryptor is running in a stand-alone system in the control center. The stand-alone encryption system used in Colorado during AI&T is now back at the SSL as a warm spare.
SUCCESS using Galaxy’s command encryption!
… from Bryce Roberts, Ground Systems Engineer at the SSL, UC Berkeley
“we launched Carruthers earlier this morning and it looks very healthy. Just wanted to send you a note because we've now gotten a number of commands in through your block encryptor, including one to switch from the master key to our first yearly traffic encryption key.”

The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, or Carruthers mission will study Earth’s exosphere, the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere. It will be the first

June 21, 2025 – the Hammers Company will provide software modifications to our mission operations software encryption pr...
10/31/2025

June 21, 2025 – the Hammers Company will provide software modifications to our mission operations software encryption product, SECRYT®, provide support for technical meetings and provide remote training to support real-time command uplink encryption for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor, NEO Surveyor, mission to be launched no earlier than September 2027 (https://science.nasa.gov/mission/neo-surveyor/). The Hammers Company will provide three SECRYT software licenses to BAE for spacecraft and instrument development and integration shared with NEO developers at JPL and LASP in Colorado. “Neo Surveyor is the first space telescope specifically designed to detect asteroids and comets that may be potential hazards to Earth.” (credit NASA/JPL)
SECRYT is a standalone application, “encryptor,” that performs CLTU encryption using AES-256. SECRYT mimics the action of the Ground Encryption Decryption Unit (GEDU) using our SpacePacketSecurity component which is also a GALAXY component. Actual GEDUs are used by Landsat 8 & 9, so we know them well (Hammers’ GALAXY is the mission operations C&T system for the Landsat 8 & 9 spacecraft).

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