Mission

Space Lab Technologies, LLC (Space Lab®) is a Colorado based small disadvantaged business (SDB) that provides advanced technology development, research, and engineering support services for human spaceflight. Space Lab® engineers enable sustainable human space exploration by creating the tools and resources needed for people to live and work in space, now and into the future.   

Since we started...

Number of Contracts Won

13

Amount of Funding Awarded
​2017-2020

$3,384,124

Funding Sources

NASA SBIR/STTR
NASA Flight Opportunities
​TRISH

Space Lab Technologies, LLC Timeline

Capabilities

Space Lab® offers full life cycle engineering services including project management, fundamental research, feasibility and trade studies, model based systems engineering, requirements management, electrical and mechanical design, process engineering, human-centered design, reliability engineering, advanced simulation (CFD, thermal, structural, and electromagnetic), fabrication and integration support, test system development, verification and validation, operations support, and flight data analysis.

Space Lab at the 2017 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference.

Space Lab’s core competencies include habitation systems (space agriculture, thermal control, air revitalization, water recovery, environmental monitoring, spacesuit components, crew accommodations, crew interfaces, human factors design, and space architecture) as well as space systems (high rate telemetry, RF systems & antennas, structures & deployment, vacuum systems, attitude determination, power systems, command & data handling, ground data systems, test support systems, and rad hard electrometers).  Space Lab® also conducts cutting edge research in space sciences including space plasmas, radiation, microgravity fluid physics, and plant life sciences. Space Lab provides custom solutions for mission specific applications. 

For advance simulations, Space Lab® utilizes an HP Z8 36-Core workstation (72 Virtual Processors and 800 GB RAM) with MATLAB®, COMSOL® Multiphysics, & SolidWorks® (CAD Premium, Simulation Premium, & Flow Simulation).  Space Lab has advanced 3D-printing capabilities for rapid prototyping which support numerous low & high temp filaments, resins for SiO2 ceramics, aerospace grade materials, and FDA approved bio-compatible materials (elastic and rigid). 

​Space Lab® engineers have extensive industry experience industry experience in developing highly reliable and 100% successful flight and ground systems for small satellites, high altitude balloons, sub-orbital rockets, and space habitats. In the last four years, the company has been awarded over $3 million in contracts and grants for innovative research & development, from NASA SBIR/STTR, NASA STMD Flight Opportunities, and the Translational Research Institute for Space Health.  

Capabilities Statement

Technology Portfolio

Meet the Team

Click on a team member's picture to learn more about them!

Adam Escobar

President & CEO

Christine Escobar

Vice President & CBO

Values

Quality  ◊  Experience  ◊  Innovation
FOR SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION

The Space Lab® team believes that ingenuity, creativity, and passion combined with domain experience and engineering integrity are the ingredients for successful innovation.  To advance state of the art technology for human spaceflight, the company leverages its multidisciplinary engineering expertise (mechanical, electrical, software, environmental, and astronautical), rapid prototyping & advanced simulation capabilities, and an unwavering commitment to industry best practices for safety and quality. Space Lab® considers sustainability to be critical for deep space exploration, requiring reliability, safety, and resource efficiency.  These are the cornerstones of Space Lab’s design philosophy.    ​​

Vice President Christine Escobar and Duckweed (Wolffia arrhiza)

The Space Lab® team shares a common passion for exploring our universe.  It is the same insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge that has driven all explorers throughout human history.  But human spaceflight is never a one and done journey. We are always going to want to go further, stay longer, and learn more, because our thirst for knowledge is unquenchable.  Space Lab® brings bold ideas to new destinations and sustainable solutions for humanity’s greatest journey.

​“At Space Lab, we share a common passion for exploring our
universe.  It is the same insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge that has driven all explorers throughout human history.  Space Lab brings bold ideas to new destinations and sustainable solutions for humanity’s greatest journey.”

- CHRISTINE ESCOBAR, Space Lab Co-founder & Vice President

For a Space Lab® solution to meet your needs, please contact us for a custom assessment via the Request a Quote page.