Space Launch System
Marshall Space Flight Center manages the Space Launch System (SLS), an integrated super heavy lift launch platform enabling a new era of science and human exploration beyond Earth orbit.
Contents
Overview
Advanced Manufacturing
Advancing 3D printing processes for complex liquid propulsion systems to reduce cost and increase performance
Development of friction stir welding processes to manufacture large lightweight metallic spacecraft structures
Development and manufacturing of composite payload adapters for SLS payloads
Vehicle Design and Analysis
MSFC offers a full suite of vehicle design and analysis capabilities ranging from spacecraft structural design, structural dynamics, aerodynamics, thermal analysis and control, terrestrial and space environments analysis, and guidance, navigation, and control analysis
Systems Engineering and Integration
MSFC provides SLS with systems engineering and integration expertise that supports risk management, technical performance management, certification of flight/mission readiness, and operations/supportability/sustaining engineering
Provides vehicle-level requirements and verification support along with system interface definition and integration
Provides systems analysis capabilities including mass properties, human factors, physical mockups, and virtual environments
Secondary Payloads
Integration of secondary payloads
Mission operations support
Structural Strength and Dynamics Testing
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 audio-visual capture systems
Flight Software Development and Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing
State-of-the-art facilities for flight software development, testing, and formal verification
Real-time hardware-in-the-loop capabilities enable launch vehicle integrated software and avionics hard-ware systems to be modeled, simulated, and tested early, before finalizing designs
Space Flight Imaging Systems and Sensors
Flight Imaging Launch Monitoring Real-time System camera and controller provide comprehensive views of Artemis launch vehicle from liftoff to the upper atmosphere
Concept and Trade Study to Support Future SLS Evolvability and Missions
Rapid development and analysis of physics-based models to yield an end-to-end design capability for preliminary concepts
Do Business with Us
MSFC Partnerships Office
Nick Case
nicholas.l.case@nasa.gov
256.544.8789
