Mission Assurance

Axient delivers exceptional spacecraft engineering and end-to-end ground system, flight system, and space facility safety, reliability, and mission assurance services helping NASA throughout the entire space system lifecycle from pre-mission concepts and manned space flight systems through on-orbit operations.

Our capabilities:

• Comprehensive lifecycle risk, reliability, and safety expertise for manned space flight systems and launch operations
• Lifting device safety operations 
• Safety and reliability analysis
• Risk management and analysis 
• Safety and mission assurance expertise to ground systems including program safety, quality process, program reviews and more 
• Delivering advanced software tools focused on launch vehicle and flight safety 
• Quality engineering across design reviews, fabrication, manufacturing, hazard analysis and supplier assurance

We cover the entire spectrum of mission system design from the very beginnings of idea formulation through detailed design and mission planning.

We have decades of experience developing new and innovative concepts for simple and complex space missions, such as:

• Pre-mission formulation and concept development  
• Detailed mission planning, design, and analysis 
• Subsystem design, including propulsion, power, structures, electrical, and avionics
• Requirements management 
• Model based software development and model based systems engineering to expedite going from models to deployment 
• Complete test and evaluation expertise from planning through post-mission reporting for ground, air, flight, and real-world events 
• Safety, mission assurance, risk management, and knowledge management processes

Axient is one of the Nation’s leading providers of launch and range safety services helping our government and commercial customers with the critical mission of launching into space. We deliver expertise in range and launch safety software tools, telemetry system tools, and range safety display tools. We are a unique developer of tools for determining Probability of Impact (Pi), Expected casualty (Ec), impact points, destruct lines, limit lines, debris fields, vacuum impact point trajectories, glide time cardioids, and other vital flight safety parameters. We deliver solutions for pre-mission and real-time critical situational awareness.

Our launch and range safety capabilities:

• National leader in launch vehicle flight safety analysis software tools and solutions 
• Experienced team of agile software developers using CMMI Level 3 solutions for developing leading launch vehicle flight safety software 
• Renowned expertise and comprehensive understanding of FAA approval process for all launch vehicle flight safety rules 
• Delivering unique tools for enhancing overall launch flight safety including telemetry data processing, weather data processing, and situational awareness 
• National leader in blast algorithms development and analysis 
• National leader in debris risk modeling and analysis for launch vehicles 
• Facility damage analysis 
• National leader in facility impact damage modeling and analysis
• Flight and ground hazard analysis, risk assessments, and safety plans 
• Risk-based reliability analysis, quality engineering, and supplier quality assurance