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The Payload Accelerator for CubeSat Endeavors initiative (PACE) is a portfolio of projects. PACE initiative is designed to aggressively shorten conventional technology testing timelines. The effort links two NASA programs Flight Opportunities and Small Spacecraft Technology efficiently connecting payloads to both suborbital and orbital flight tests that increase the likelihood of a technology being selected for a space exploration mission.
PACE-1 is the first demonstration of PACE Avionics and payload hosting capabilities.
The PACE initiative supports flight demonstrations, facilitating suborbital and orbital launches for technology payloads. The initiative reduces the cost, risk, complexity, and/or time required to mature technology, lowering the barriers to development. Getting more technology payloads tested in flight more frequently helps researchers iterate their designs faster. PACE uses a flexible approach to accommodate a wide range of projects to fly as many new technologies as possible, particularly early-stage, higher-risk innovations. A variety of flight platforms independent, commercial, or NASA's Advanced Development Projects, or ADP, avionics system platform can host payloads on PACE flights.
The PACE-1 demonstration proves out the avionics back-end for the PACE-series.
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