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Delta
Velocity Corporation
Providing space transportation expertise for civil, commercial
and military missions
Delta Velocity has a wide range of expertise in the space
transportation industry, particularly in small launch vehicles. Our
commercial customers have included SpaceX, Microcosm, AirLaunch LLC,
and Orbital. Our key personnel average over 20 years of industry
experience, including the hands-on development of the Pegasus and
Taurus small launch vehicles. We were selected by the DoD’s
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to complete a Phase I
Study on the Responsive Access Small Cargo Affordable Launch (RASCAL)
program. More recently we were selected by AirLaunch LLC to develop all
payload accommodations features for their QuickReach small launch
vehicle. This responsibility includes development of the payload
fairing and adapter cone, creation of the payload user's guide and
interface control process, and development of a streamlined mission
integration process.
Delta Velocity has supported numerous other programs in a variety of
roles. Working with Ball Aerospace on the Mars Sample Return Study
Team, for example, Delta Velocity was responsible for the Mars Ascent
Vehicle Concept Development, performing such tasks as performance
assessment, trade studies, system sizing, configuration development,
interface definition, life-cycle costing and the technology
requirements definition. We have overall responsibility for
system safety for the AirLaunch QuickReach vehicle. We are also
resposible for development and fabrication of the mechanical ground
support equipment for Orbital's Launch Abort System for NASA's Crew
Exploration Vehicle.
In addition, we have provided an independent review for DARPA’s Small
Scale Propulsion Systems program and propulsion design support and
launch system management services for several commercial space
missions. We have also developed and tested an innovative gimbal
assembly for a low pressure liquid rocket engine.
Delta Velocity has developing payload fairing structural design and
acoustic level reduction concepts under a Small Business Innovation
Research contract from the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) at Kirtland
AFB, NM. Known as ChamberCore structure design, the program will
leverage this AFRL-developed technology for graphite composite
structure fabrication methods to build, test and fly composite fairings
with lower production costs. The ChamberCore method of structural
fabrication also promises to provide reductions in the acoustic levels
to which a satellite is exposed during launch. The
first ChamberCore fairing flew on a Terrier-Orion suborbital booster
from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in August 2003. More
recently we awarded an enhancement to this SBIR contract to develop and
fabricate a lightweight composite shroud for a DoD suborbital launch
vehicle. We delivered the qual unit eight months after award; the
flight unit was successfully launched in April 2006. Delta
Velocity has obtained an exclusive license to use the non-contaminating
thrusting fairing separation system developed by Tracor, Inc.
This system has been incorporated into the AirLaunch QuickReach fairing
and was tested at Wallops in October 2006.

     
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