ENGINEERING SERVICES

Consulting

Engineering services cover all areas of spacecraft GN&C at all stages of development from concept to flight operation. I will work collaboratively your engineering team to identify and solve challenging technical problems and to implement practical solutions.

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CONSULTING SERVICES

Consulting

Consulting Services focus on technical advice, people, and processes. Areas include Independent review, Expert advice, Facilitation and Coaching, Education and Training, Problem solving, Research, and Technical sections of proposals.


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CORE CAPABILITIES

Consulting

I am a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in several core areas of GN&C engineering that are critical to performance and mission success, including precision attitude determination and sensor calibration, image motion and pointing performance analysis, attitude control, and GN&C systems engineering.

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A systems engineering approach to Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) design is essential to achieve performance objectives, minimize risk, and to meet program schedule and cost. The GN&C design is strongly coupled with all other spacecraft subsystems and subject to mission requirements and constraints. For example, environmental factors such as thermal control affect attitude sensor performance and alignment, calibration maneuvers are limited by pointing and mission constraints, structural modes and propellant slosh can cause image motion (such as smear, and jitter) that degrades optical payload performance, and control-structure interaction can cause instability of the pointing control system.

Systems engineering services include

  • Concept of Operations (ConOps) development and evaluation
  • Requirements definition and analysis
  • Pointing control and knowledge error budgeting
  • Trade studies and feasibility studies
  • System architecture development and evaluation
  • GN&C subsystem design and development
  • Orbit determination design and performance analysis
  • System Timing analysis
  • Evaluation of structural, thermal, operational effects on pointing control and knowledge
  • Design Review and IV & V
  • ICD development and analysis
  • Telemetry planning and analysis
  • Test planning and support
  • Flight Operation planning and support
    • contingency planning
    • performance assessment
    • anomaly analysis and resolution
    • ground-based telemetry processing for attitude determination, attitude sensor alignment, and gyro calibration

 

Contact me if you need systems engineering support in any of these areas.

 

 

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A Fresh Perspective


Aerospace Control Systems LLC provides quality Engineering Services and Consulting Services to support planning, development, testing, and operation of spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) systems. I am a Subject Matter Expert in several areas of GN&C that are critical to performance and mission success.

An outside expert can provide a fresh perspective, new insight, and a different or modified technical approach to solving problems.

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Collaboration is Key


I will collaborate with your engineering team to understand and define the technical problem to be solved, to review the team's current approach to solving the problem, to identify and analyze various alternative solutions (AoA), to select the most effective and feasible solution, and to implement and test the solution.

Good decisions and effective action follow from discussion, collaboration, consensus, commitment, and follow-through.

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Why Use Outside Expertise?


There are many reasons to consider adding outside expertise to your team. In general, you may have staffing problems or technical issues that have to be resolved quickly to meet requirements and schedule milestones, you may want an independent review to address a customer's concerns, or you may need consulting services as outlined below.

Whatever your concerns are, I am ready to support you and your engineering team to ensure mission success. 

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