Infrastructure Development & Mission Operations

Our teams’ expertise in the development of command and control centers (including hardware, communication links, software, and displays), range operations, facilities engineering and design, integration, and operations of complex facilities and chambers provides our customers with mission confidence and certainty.

Our capabilities include:

• Complex facility requirements, layout, design, utilization, and operations 
• Range safety, launch safety, and situational awareness
• Mission operations software  
• Satellite operations center development and engineering from design through on-console operations 
• Engineering expertise to upgrade and modernize major ground system infrastructure assets at National test ranges
• Environmental and facility engineering
• Facility operations and maintenance
• Specialized lab engineering
• Materials testing
• Component evaluation
• Construction and modernization
• Power generation and distribution
• Fuel handling systems
• Security screening systems
• Border/perimeter surveillance systems

Axient has expertise in developing space vehicle facilities, ground processing, integration and testing for new prototype rocket engines and motors, spacecraft payload, sensor systems, and ground operations equipment associated with the space launch and missile industries. Our employees plan, design, construct, and manage the space vehicle facilities such as the National Hover Test Facility (NHTF), NASA Kennedy Space Center ground modernization activities, Cape Canaveral Air Station, Vandenberg AFB, and the Missile Defense Agency ground test infrastructure and assets. We also provide expertise in the Navy’s efforts to plan and modernize their missile ground support equipment infrastructure and test assets.

Our capabilities are:

• Comprehensive understating of complex space facility requirements, layout, design, utilization, and operations 
• Leading provider of range safety analysis, engineering, mission displays, data processing across major National test ranges 
• Hands on engineering expertise developing mission operations software for range safety, launch safety, situational awareness, and weather software for operations centers 
• Delivering certified hazards operations expertise at major test ranges including pad safety, hypergolic fuel handling, and hazardous procedures
• Developing unique telemetry processing and situational awareness displays to modernize the Nation’s test ranges 
• Engineering expertise throughout satellite operations center development from design through on-console operations 
• Engineering expertise to upgrade and modernize major ground system infrastructure assets at National test ranges 
• Developing model-based software and model-based systems engineering for processor and hardware-in-the-loop (PIL/HWIL) facilities

Axient is partnered with NASA providing comprehensive and innovative engineering solutions and program management services, design, develop, manufacture, assemble, and operations of complex aviation, aeronautics, and space systems for all phases of flight and mission projects.

Our NASA infrastructure development and mission operations capabilities are:

• Center-wide facilities management from planning, construction management, facility operations, and maintenance 
• Multi-disciplinary engineering across aeronautics and space disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, structural, optical, propulsion, and guidance
• Expertise in space mission planning, sustainment engineering, conduct of flight operations, and real-time operations in Mission Operations Centers (MOC) 
• Expertise in the design development, fabrication, and test of complex wind tunnel models and components 
• Facilities engineering 
• Expertise in design, integration, and operations of complex aeronautics and space test facilities and chambers