Kelly Space & Technology

Kelly Space & Technology is a San Bernardino, California-based independent environmental testing laboratory providing qualification and acceptance testing services for space hardware, satellite components, and aerospace systems.

The company's test capabilities include vibration testing (sinusoidal sweep, random vibration, shock), thermal vacuum cycling, thermal shock, altitude simulation, electromagnetic compatibility (EMI/EMC), and combined environments testing — the full environmental stress suite required to qualify flight hardware to MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-1540, GEVS (NASA General Environmental Verification Standard), and customer-specific test plans.

Independent test houses like Kelly Space play a critical role in the space supply chain: component and subsystem manufacturers require third-party environmental qualification to demonstrate workmanship and design margin before flight acceptance. With the smallsat revolution driving higher production volumes of CubeSat and ESPA-class satellite components, independent test labs serving the new-space supply chain have grown in demand. Kelly Space serves satellite bus manufacturers, payload developers, launch vehicle component suppliers, and defense contractors in the greater Los Angeles and Inland Empire aerospace corridor.