Marshall Advanced Space Transportation Systems
Marshall Space Flight Center enables rapid, efficient space transportation in cislunar space and beyond.
Contents
Overview
Advanced Manufacturing
Unique expertise in applying state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing methods to support development and production of advanced space transportation systems.
In-space Propulsion and Cryo Fluid Management (CFM) Design, Development and Testing
Rapid prototype, test, and integration of new propulsion system concepts including nuclear thermal propulsion, satellite tethers, solar sails, along with others.
Development of prototype CFM hardware, the creation and use of analytical models to predict subsystem performance, and the execution of ground-based tests using liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen, and liquid methane to demonstrate the performance, applicability, and reliability of CFM subsystems.
Structural Strength and Dynamics Testing for Advanced Space Transportation Systems
Multiple facilities provide proof, limit, failure, development, qualification, and flight acceptance testing.
Decades of experience developing instrumentation for structural and propulsion-related test articles to maximize data return using high-speed data acquisition, visible and thermal imaging, and high-definition audiovisual capture systems.
Propulsion testing facilities enable testing of components, subsystems, subscale motors, and full-scale engines under a variety of configurations and conditions.
Space Environmental Effects Testing
Test capabilities to characterize the effects of the space environment on materials and systems, from low Earth orbit to deep space. Simulated elements include charged particle radiation, plasma, high vacuum, solar ultraviolet (VUV, NUV), atomic oxygen, impact, thermal extremes, Lunar/Martian surface environments including regolith simulants, all either individually or in combinations.
Liquid and Solid Propulsion Systems Design and Development
Expertise ranging from small pressure-fed to large, complex pump-fed rocket engines that support liquid propulsion requirements for Earth-to-orbit, beyond-Earth orbit, and in-space missions.
Comprehensive expertise and experience with solid propulsion for nanoscale to heavy-lift applications.
The only NASA facility that can test fire solid rocket motors from small to mid-size.
Concept and Trade Studies
Rapid development and analysis of physics-based models to yield an end-to-end design capability for preliminary concepts.
Decades of experience in both launch vehicle and space systems design.
Do Business with Us
MSFC Partnerships Office
Nick Case
nicholas.l.case@nasa.gov
256.544.8789
