MMA™ Design (“MMA”) is changing its name to MMA Space™, a significant milestone in the company’s evolution — this comprehensive rebranding transformation encompasses the firm’s new name, new logo and visual identity.
Retaining “MMA” was important, but the company felt strongly that “Design” did not accurately communicate its broad range of capabilities honed over years and leveraged to deliver fully integrated systems. The new name honors the MMA team’s enduring passion for producing disruptive Moving Mechanical Assemblies for Space, while simultaneously signaling the company’s commitment to delivering turnkey solutions for customers requiring both custom one-offs and high-volume production.
With a multitude of missions successfully on-orbit and 100% mission success rate, MMA solutions are innovative, robust and reliable. Our flight heritage is largely comprised of novel deployable systems — an effective, enabling strategy when delivering high performance for small spacecraft. However, the space industry today pulls for more capability. With greater accessibility to space for all, MMA’s technologies are expanding and evolving to provide more powerful deployable and non-deployable solutions to meet and exceed industry needs.
The commercialization of space is a flourishing sector globally as well as locally. According to the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, Colorado is the second-largest aerospace economy in the United States, and MMA is a vital part of this industry landscape. MMA continues to invest in R+D innovation to mature existing technologies and bring new technology to market. And, to double down on critical engineering and manufacturing capabilities, MMA is moving its operations to a larger facility at the end of this year.
What sets MMA Space apart in a crowded and growing industry is its agile team of dedicated and talented aerospace professionals.
“You might wonder ‘why change our name now?’” said Mitch Wiens, President + CEO of MMA Space. “It’s true we have made a name for ourselves in innovative deployable solutions that continue to revolutionize what small satellite platforms can do for defense and science missions – we have been powering the SmallSat revolution since we founded the company in 2007! But our government and commercial customers are pulling us in new directions, and we have changed too. Reflecting on who we are becoming in this new space arena and the competitive advantages our expertise brings to market made it clear that there’s never been a better time to communicate where we are headed. MMA does more than just design, after all. While this rebranding communicates change and growth at the company to better support our customers’ needs. MMA’s leadership and project delivery teams remain steadfast in our commitment to being creative, responsive, transparent and collaborative. Those are values we hold core to our identity.”