At QinetiQ North America we take pride in understanding our customers’ mission, and making it our own. We deliver multi-disciplined engineering, design, test, modeling, and field engineering services that ensure safety and operational success. We are armed with experience and expertise that enables us to be proactive – not just reacting to surprising developments, but preparing for the unexpected.
We make space mission success possible for customers such as: NASA, NRO and the U.S. Air Force through the following capabilities:
- Mission integration and control
- Spacecraft integration
- Communications and telemetry operations and management
- Launch support
- Vehicle systems engineering
- Environmental testing – structural, electromagnetic, space simulation
- Safety and mission assurance
Independent Verification and Validation
When a national asset is truly irreplaceable, you need to assure mission success. Testing vastly complex launch systems, including hardware, software and human elements to ensure the safety of human lives and the preservation of large investments in space operations and research Read More »...
When a national asset is truly irreplaceable, you need to assure mission success. Testing vastly complex launch systems, including hardware, software and human elements to ensure the safety of human lives and the preservation of large investments in space operations and research is key. We have worked to help drive down launch risks through the independent assessment of launch vehicles.
As part of our independent verification and validation, we provide assessment of launch risks and detailed insight into launch vehicle issues, such as:
- Trajectory & performance and targeting & guidance accuracy
- Coupled loads analysis, structural/stress analysis, structural dynamics, mass properties
- Control dynamics, thermal control, thermodynamics
- Day of launch, range safety
- Trend analyses/out-of-family data
- Engineering review board information
- Failure review/reliability review board information
- First flight use
- Manufacturing process changes
- Test anomalies, failure analyses
- Re-qualification tests
Less »... Maintaining the Nation’s Access to Space
Access to Earth’s orbit is essential in today’s high-tech age. Commercial and government requirements cannot be met without reliable and cost-efficient space launch vehicles, as well as on-going maintenance and support. We provide comprehensive, integrated support for expenda Read More »...
Access to Earth’s orbit is essential in today’s high-tech age. Commercial and government requirements cannot be met without reliable and cost-efficient space launch vehicles, as well as on-going maintenance and support. We provide comprehensive, integrated support for expendable launch vehicles, from business and administration solutions to engineering and launch operations.
Our Expendable Launch Vehicle Integrated Support (ELVIS) provides:
- Program management support
- Safety and mission assurance
- Mission integration and control
- Spacecraft integration operations
- Communications and telemetry operations and management
- Information technology solutions
- Facility and support equipment operations and management
- Base operations support
- Facility design and construction
- Vehicle systems engineering and mission analysis
Less »... Environmental Test & Integration services
Spacecraft need thorough testing before they fly, and that requires reproducing the space environment on the ground, faithfully and rigorously.
Read More »...Spacecraft need thorough testing before they fly, and that requires reproducing the space environment on the ground, faithfully and rigorously.
We offer a full suite of solutions for simulating a space environment and testing essential technology:
- Environmental testing – structural, electromagnetic, space simulation
- Mechanical integration
- Advanced manufacturing
- Recertification
- Optical integration
- Facility acquisition or modification, facility maintenance, clean room operations and contamination control
- Development of electrical cable harness and thermal blankets
- Engineering and computer systems management
- Procurement, logistics and equipment/property control
Less »... Software Engineering For Space, Missile and Aviation Programs
Because we understand our customers don’t have time to attend multiple meetings or consult extensive user manuals, we design our software programs to be intuitive. Though our focus is on readiness, quick turnaround and cost-effective solutions, we continue to surpass prior perf Read More »...
Because we understand our customers don’t have time to attend multiple meetings or consult extensive user manuals, we design our software programs to be intuitive. Though our focus is on readiness, quick turnaround and cost-effective solutions, we continue to surpass prior performance and increase customer satisfaction. We proudly display our ISO 9001:2008 certification and CMMI Level 3 appraisal.
QinetiQ North America is a leader in software safety engineering for requirements, design, coding, testing, operation, and maintenance of safety-critical software. Our system safety engineers identify not only system hazards but the individual failure modes and their causes. We identify the causes and derive requirements to eliminate, control, or mitigate the hazard to an acceptable level of risk. Software safety engineering is appropriate where software performs safety-critical or mission-critical functions.
Less »...Expertise in action: Engineering services for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Under the $1.9 billion Engineering Services Contract for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, QinetiQ North America and its teammates:
- Design and develop ground systems and equipment for handling, test, checkout, servicing, and other ground processing of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and payloads
- Perform flight systems engineering and support engineering for space flight hardware and software
- Develop technology that addresses NASA mission requirements and operational needs, operate laboratories and developmental shops, and provide cross-cutting technical services.
