Vanguard Space Technologies’ customers have access to our experienced in-house engineering staff, which offers full-service aerospace and mechanical engineering support to your organization in the areas of:
- Design – Detail and assembly modeling and drafting for spaceflight hardware and assembly tooling, optical and photometric metrology
- Structural Analysis – Dynamic, static, buckling and Hygo-Thermal stress and distortion
- Thermal Analysis – Launch and on orbit
- Environmental Testing – Dynamic, static, Vacuum, thermal distortion and thermal cycling
Vanguard’s engineers are skilled in the latest computer-aided engineering (CAE) software and analysis tools used to build precision and dimensionally stable space structures, including:
- Design
- I-Deas NX6.1 and Siemens NX7.5
- Pro-E V3
- CATIA-V
- Structural Analysis
- FEMAP 10.3 and NX NASTRAN
- VA One for state-of-the-art acoustic analysis
- Thermal Analysis
- I-Deas 12 NX/TMG
- Thermal Desktop v5.5Sinda/Fluint v5.5
- Translators
- Zernike or Bi-Cubic B-Spline to IGES
- STEP, IGES, DXF, Parasolids
- Specialty Codes
- Bestfit Surface RMS
- 2-D/3-D Laminate Analysis Code – CASM
- COMPOSITE-PRO
- SURFER-8: Contouring and 3-D Surface Mapping
- GRID Generation Code
- V-STARS: Picture perfect measurement (Photogrammetry Software)