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Breaking the TRL Bottleneck: Space Phoenix Systems Debuts Cost-Effective Space Test-and-Return Service

June 10, 2026

Baltimore, MD — June 10, 2026 — Space Phoenix Systems (SPS), a leader in space logistics, today announced its newest service offering, TR LEAP™ (Technology Readiness Level Acceleration Program), introducing a fundamentally different model for space qualification and technology maturation.

TR LEAP offers a returnable spacecraft platform specifically designed to accelerate technology readiness through repeatable flight opportunities alongside post-mission payload recovery and return.

SPS aims to solve the single most challenging problem facing aerospace organizations today: the lack of affordable, repeatable opportunities to demonstrate performance in space. TR LEAP provides a practical and cost-effective pathway for technologies to progress through critical TRL milestones with significantly greater speed and efficiency. By removing the bottleneck between early-stage validation and full operational deployment, TR LEAP alleviates a key barrier slowing innovation across the orbital economy.

TR LEAP missions provide organizations with high-cadence access to real-world orbital conditions without the enormous capital expenditures and long wait times traditionally associated with space qualification programs. By integrating payload pick-up, spacecraft payload integration, launch access, operational monitoring and testing, payload recovery, and iterative mission cycles into a single platform, SPS streamlines the path to orbit.

For developers of emerging orbital technologies, SPS offers a uniquely valuable capability: the ability to economically test, recover, analyze, improve, and rapidly fly again. This iterative development loop is the key to accelerating TRL advancement and drastically reducing the time required to bring next-generation space technologies to market.

“TR LEAP represents a paradigm shift in how space technologies are matured,” said Andrew Parlock, Co-founder & CEO of Space Phoenix Systems. “By enabling rapid iteration in real mission environments, we are fundamentally changing the speed and economics of reaching operational readiness.”

With the launch of TR LEAP, Space Phoenix Systems continues to build the critical infrastructure needed to unlock a scalable, high-frequency orbital economy—where access, testing, and return are no longer constraints, but active enablers of innovation.

About Space Phoenix Systems Inc.

Space Phoenix Systems (SPS) is a space logistics company dedicated to providing easy, affordable, and timely access to space for the emerging in-space manufacturing industry. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, with product development facilities at the University of New Hampshire’s John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center, SPS is enabling The Art of the Achievable — empowering customers to realize the vast, proven potential of manufacturing in space. For more information, visit spacephoenixsystems.com.

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