Aerospace Engineering
Star Technologies Corporation has over 30 years of Guidance, Navigation & Control
(GN&C) Design, Analysis and Simulation Experience including:
- Control System Design and Analysis Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control
Systems (ADACS) Design
- Launch Vehicle GN&C Design
- Multi-Body Dynamics and Bending Mode Analysis
- GPS Based Guidance & Navigation Systems Design
- Software Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)
- Real-Time Flight Software Development & Test
- Hardware Integration & Test
- Satellite Ground Station Software Development
- Tethered-Spacecraft Control Design
- Distributed Spacecraft Simulation
Star Technologies Corporation has developed a variety of design and analysis
tools in support of the design process associated with a wide range of
sophisticated dynamic systems including spacecraft, launch vehicles, aircraft
and missile systems: 6DOf Launch Vehicle Dynamics Simulation (3D & 6D POST 6D),
and Launch Vehicle Aerodynamic Analysis (Missile DatCom) and Spacecraft Dynamic
Tool (SDT).
Star Technologies Corporation has extensive experience with state of the art
programming languages such as C#, .NET, C++, Perl, Basic, Pascal, FORTRAN,
Assembly Code and GUI Development for Linux and most Windows versions.
Star Technologies Corporation experience includes state-of-the-art technologies
to provide unique solutions to the most challenging system integration and
control problems. These applications include launch vehicle GN&C systems,
spacecraft attitude determination and control systems (ADACS), large space
structure controls, and control/structure interaction (CSI):
- NASA International Space Station ICM ADACS design and development
- NASA Space Shuttle Mated Ascent control design
- NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Landing GN&C design
- NASA Hubble Space Telescope simulations & software tests
- GSFC Terra & Aqua Satellite Ground Station Software
- ROCSAT Satellite Simulation (Taiwan National Space Program Office)
- NRL Naval Earth Map Observer (NEMO) Image Guidance & Contol Design and Analysis
- NRL LACE Systems support
- NRL SEALAR GN&C analysis
- Space Based Laser GN&C Design
- EarthWatch Earlybird Payload Mirror Pointing Control design & analysis
- EarthWatch Earlybird ADACS IV&V
- AMROC HiFlyer launch vehicle GN&C analysis
- CTA ORBEX launch vehicle GN&C design & analysis
- Polaris Submarines Navigation analysis
- Minuteman Missile GN&C Analysis
Star Technologies Corporation has supported such companies as Allied Signal, CTA,
Lockheed-Martin, General Research Corporation, United Technologies as well as
government organizations such as DARPA, Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI),
Naval Research Laboratory, NASA MSFC and GSFC.