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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