Engineering and Consulting Services
Instar Engineering and Consulting
Mechanical systems engineering
- System mechanical integration
- Spacecraft configuration development and conceptual design
- Requirements development and definition
- Verification planning
- Mass properties management
- Management of master equipment list
- Configuration management
- Risk management and assessment
Structural and mechanical analysis
- Stress analysis, classical and finite element analysis
- Bolted joints
- NASA-STD-5020 (2012) for threaded fastening systems
(Tom Sarafin of Instar was instrumental in the development of this standard)
- Design and analysis
- Torque-preload testing
- Fastening system control plan
- Loads and dynamics
- Vibration
- Jitter
- Thermal modeling and analysis
- Opto-mechanical analysis
Structural and mechanical design
- Preliminary design
- CAD/solid modeling and detail design
- Flight hardware and ground support equipment
Test engineering: design, analysis, planning, data interpretation, and documentation
- Static loads testing
- Vibration testing (random, sine sweep, sine burst)
- Notching and force limiting
- Acoustic
- Shock
- Modal surveys
Vehicle mechanical integration and test
Applications
- Proposal support
- Design and analysis
- Design reviews and recommendations
Problem resolution
Our Clients since 1993
Engineering and Consulting Services:
- AeroAstro
- Aeroflex
- Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
- Alliant Techsystems (now Orbital ATK)
- DARPA
- Design Net Engineering
- DigitalGlobe
- KMLabs
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
- Lockheed Martin NE & SS (Syracuse)
- Lockheed Martin Space Systems
- MicroSat Systems (now part of Sierra Nevada)
- NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC)
- NovaWurks
- Operationally Responsive Space (ORS)
- Orbital Sciences (now Orbital ATK)
- Planetary Systems Corporation
- Scitor
- SEAKR Engineering
- Skybox Imaging
- Southwest Research Institute (SWRI)
- Space Imaging (now part of DigitalGlobe)
- Space Test Program (STP), DOD
- 3D at Depth
- United States Air Force Academy
Short Courses (partial listing):
- Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
- Alliant Techsystems (now Orbital ATK)
- Ball Aerospace
- Boeing (El Segundo, Houston, and Huntington Beach)
- The Canadian Space Agency
- DigitalGlobe
- General Dynamics Electric Boat
- Jacobs Sverdrup
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- Lockheed Martin NE & SS (Syracuse)
- Lockheed Martin Space Systems (Denver, Michoud, and Sunnyvale)
- MacDonald Dettwiler
- Magellan/Bristol Aerospace
- NASA (Dryden, Glenn, Goddard, Johnson, Kennedy, Langley, Marshall, NESC, Wallops)
- National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
- Naval Research Laboratory
- Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
- Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Scitor (Chantilly and El Segundo)
- Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)
- Southwest Research Institute (SWRI)
- United Space Alliance (formerly USBI, KSC)
- UTC Aerospace Systems