services for space missions established in 1990 malin space science systems msss designs builds and operates space camera systems for government and commercial aerospace customers . latest news view all news may 24 2016 msss wins 2015 nasa jpl small business prime contractor of the year award more apr 18 2016 msss tagcams camera system performs well in thermal vacuum test of osiris rex asteroid sample return mission more msss has extensive experience designing and building innovative space qualified camera and instrument systems that set new performance benchmarks at reduced cost working within highly constrained mass volume and power envelopes . for missions with highly tailored requirements msss develops custom space camera systems . missions with more flexible requirements and more constrained budgets or schedules can leverage the standard ecam modular space camera platform . view cameras msss has decades of collective tactical and strategic space flight instrument operations experience and provides unparalleled support to maximize data return value . with extensive computing and data storage resources and custom developed ground data system tools msss has targeted returned and processed hundreds of thousands of images from the cameras we ve flown . for nasa missions the validated data are delivered to nasa s planetary data system pds public archive . go to operations msss custom camera designs for space exploration are highly informed by the scientific expertise of the instrument team and msss research partners . msss scientists have served as principal investigators co investigators and participating scientists on more than a dozen nasa missions to investigate mars venus the moon asteroids and other solar system objects . msss researchers have made many original contributions to the collective understanding of the geology and history of mars . go to science photo credit lro lroc ; nasa gsfc ariz. state u. copyright 2010 malin space science systems san diego ca all rights reserved .