PROJECTS
CURRENT PROJECTS
DRAGONFLY is a rotorcraft lander mission – part of NASA's New Frontiers Program – designed to take advantage of Titan's environment to sample materials and determine surface composition in different geologic settings. This revolutionary mission concept includes the capability to explore diverse locations to characterize the habitability of Titan's environment, to investigate how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed, and even to search for chemical signatures that could indicate water-based and/or hydrocarbon-based life.
Vertex Aerospace is providing thermal engineering support to APL that includes thermal modeling and analysis as well as developmental test support.
NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) supports essential forecasts for extreme weather events, feeds daily weather models, and monitors climate change. Vertex Aerospace thermal engineers participate in the testing and anomaly resolution activities as well as provide an on-site support at the Northrop Grumman manufacturing facility. In addition, Vertex Aerospace supports the thermal systems engineering for the JPSS-4 instruments and spacecraft and support activities at Northrop Grumman.
NOAA’s GeoXO
NOAA’s GOES-U
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS)
Vertex Aerospace thermal engineers will utilize the experience and knowledge supporting the Space Network Project (Code 452) to provide satellite thermal systems engineering expertise for generation 1, 2, and 3 TDRS spacecraft. Vertex Aerospace will provide support of the TDRS spacecraft recovery, anomaly resolution, long term performance trending and other TDRS sustaining supporting activities as requested by Code 452.
Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the ‘mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,’ the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. Part of Vertex Aerospace's role on this mission includes, integrating and maintaining Spacecraft level RST thermal math model (STMM) which consists of all the needed and delivered thermal models such as communications module, Outer Barrel Assembly (OBA), and SASS. The STMM is maintained by collecting, reviewing, revising as necessary, maintaining, and executing the integrated models forming the STMM per the enclosed Specification. Our thermal engineers will exercise fully integrated STMM to evaluate design trades, determine thermal design details, assess model adequacy for Structural, Thermal, and Optical (STOP) and Integrated Modeling (IM) efforts and provide predicted results per the enclosed Specification.
On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission is to advance robotic servicing technologies by demonstrating in-space robotic refueling and in-space robotic assembly. Vertex Aerospace's involvement under this task will focus on programmatic support - including financial planning, reporting, scheduling, procurement, logistics, and other efforts for the development of the OSAM-1 Mission.