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Skybox Imaging, Inc.

Vertex Aerospace was contracted by Skybox Imaging, Inc., a commercial satellite company on the West Coast, to develop a thermal design and perform thermal analysis on their Earth Imaging Satellite.

  • Post-CDR Thermal Design and Analysis
  • Thermal Vacuum / Thermal Balance Test Support
  • Thermal Model Correlation

BLACKSKY

Vertex Aerospace was contracted by Blacksky/Spaceflight Industries to perform thermal analysis for its first two Earth-imaging spacecraft, Global-1 and -2 prior to launch in Nov/Dec 2018.

  • Global-1 was launched Nov. 28, 2018 from the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Satish Dhawan Space Center aboard a PSLV launch vehicle.
  • Global-2 was launched the following week on Dec. 3, 2018 on Spaceflight’s SSO-A mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Woodward

Vertex Aerospace was contracted by a commercial engineering company in the Mid-West to develop a thermal design, perform thermal analysis and develop a prototype to support the thermal control of an Aircraft Electronics Module.

SAFT Battery

Vertex Aerospace was contracted by SAFT Battery to perform thermal analysis for the GOES-R Lithium Ion Battery in preparation for the GOES-R Critical Design Review (CDR). Vertex Aerospace reviewed the GOES-R battery requirements, worked with the SAFT mechanical/thermal engineers and implemented the current design details in the Thermal Desktop model. Vertex Aerospace post-processed the temperature and heat flow adata and included the results in a Thermal Design Report.