Engineering

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)