SPACEHAB, Inc.
Team Role: Program management, mission
operations, payload integration,
engineering and fabrication
Leading the ARCTUS effort, SPACEHAB fills several roles
from overall program management to component fabrication.
SPACEHAB engineers will oversee the complex task of overall
spacecraft integration, payload avionics, ECLSS and payload
accomodation design while looking for ways to mitigate risk.
SPACEHAB will develop flight procedures, train astronauts and
ground personnel and build a flight control team. Finally,
SPACEHAB's world-class facilities will be used for ARCTUS final
assembly, checkout and payload integration.
Astrotech
Space Operations (ASO)
Team Role: Spacecraft integration,
ground ops, fairing encapsulation
Astrotech facilities will support the crucial
stage of final ARCTUS spacecraft integration,
fueling, fairing encapsulation and checkout. SPACEHAB and
Astrotech production engineers will perform final vehicle
assembly, late-load (cargo) installation and testing. United Launch Alliance (ULA)
Team Role: Launch vehicle integration/operations
A joint venture formed by the Boeing Company and the
Lockheed Martin Corporation, ULA brings together two of
the launch industry's most experienced and successful teams—the
Lockheed Martin Atlas and Boeing Delta teams. Over the
past 50 years, Atlas and Delta launch vehicles have carried
more than 850 combined payloads to space ranging from weather,
telecom and national security satellites.
The Lockheed Martin Corporation
Team Role: Primary structure
and avionics fabrication
Lockheed Martin Corporation was formed in 1995 with the merger of two of the
world's premier technology companies, Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta
Corporation. Today, Lockheed employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is
principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration
of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Space Systems Division,
with approximately $7.9 billion in 2006 sales, includes space launch, commercial
satellites, government satellites, and strategic missiles lines of business. Cimarron Software Services, Inc.
Team Role: Control center (SHOCC)
integration and ops
Cimarron has extensive mission operations
control center design, construction and operation experience.
Cimarron will be instrumental in setting up the SPACEHAB
Operations Control Center (SHOCC) for ARCTUS.
Odyssey Space Research, Inc.
Team Role: Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C)
simulation and analysis, software verification,
ARPO expertise
Odyssey's experience in rendezvous,
proximity operations and capture (automated
rendezvous and docking) makes them a valuable addition
to the ARCTUS team. |
