Engineering Services and Products for Space Missions

Mission success is what we do

At the center of our Core4 values: Customer, Team, Company, and Self is your mission. a.i. solutions is committed to helping you achieve that mission every day whether it’s here on the ground, in Earth orbit, or the future of deep space exploration.

For 25 years, a.i. solutions has provided innovative, cost-effective space engineering services, products and support to enable uninterrupted and reliable access to space. With over 300 successful missions, we have provided solutions for both civil and defense space agencies, as well as the ever-expanding commercial space industry.

Your Trusted Industry Partner

For our customers, each mission is taking the next “one giant leap” and we want to make sure you’re starting on the right foot! Beginning with mission planning and ending with a successful mission complete, a.i. solutions’ proven engineering capabilities and customized solutions span space mission engineering and technology and mission services including both mission systems assurance and launch services. Enabling missions for science, defense, and human space exploration.

Mission Engineering & Technology

Since the company’s inception, we have been providing full lifecycle space mission engineering and technical services to some of the most complex missions like close proximity formation flying of multiple satellites, conjunction assessment risk analysis, and space ground systems development. Our solutions span mission operations, modeling & simulation, and software engineering.

Mission systems assurance

a.i. solutions provides critical inputs to programs that support strategic weapon systems, space and intelligence functions in order to preserve national security. Our proven capabilties for development and operations include quality and mission assurances, material engineering management, supply chain management, and software quality assurance for critical space and missile defense systems.

Launch Services

Located in Cape Canaveral and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, a.i. solutions provides award-winning, complete launch engineering, analysis, and support services on well-known vehicles such as the Atlas II/V, Delta II/V, Pegasus XL, Taurus XL/2, Falcon 1/9 and Minotaur I/IV. Support services also include launch site support, communications & telemetry, facility operations, and IT support.

Your future in space begins here

We provide a challenging work environment that delivers the best solution while maximizing employee’s potential. We achieve this daily by living our Core4 Values: Customer, Team, Company, and Self, and by openly challenging actions inconsistent with these values. Our culture boasts a high bar and asks a lot of our Team — unapologetically. We expect our Team to not only help each other live the values, but hold each other responsible up, down and across the organization.

Examining the Feasibility of Relative-Only Navigation for Crewed Missions to Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits

August 25, 2022

Recently, lunar Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits (NRHO) have been the focus of much study, and they have been selected as the target orbit for the Gateway mission, formerly the Deep Space Gateway. Also, the Deep Space Network (DSN) is increasingly congested and over-subscribed. In this work, the performance of relative-only navigation between a spacecraft in an NRHO and a relay in a Distant Retrograde Orbit is examined and compared to simulated DSN tracking using a Square Root Information Filter. Various tracking scenarios are examined using a closed-loop simulation where navigation errors inform maneuver planning and maneuver execution errors affect navigation performance. Results indicate that relative-only navigation can provide comparable levels of orbit determination error and orbit maintenance costs.

Distant Retrograde Orbit Constellations for Relative-Only Navigation in Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits

July 27, 2022

NASA is currently working on the spacecraft and trajectory design for the Gateway mission that will reside in a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). In the NRHO, Gateway will nominally require orbital maintenance maneuvers once per revolution. Separately, NASA is also working to develop technologies and techniques for relative navigation in cis-lunar space. Together, these concepts represent an opportunity for interesting research in cis-lunar navigation performance.

Your Mission | Accepted

No matter how challenging, your mission is our focus so you can explore.