Specialty Centers
Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS)
CORDS was established in 1997 to focus the corporation's research and technology applications in the areas of space debris, collision avoidance, and reentry breakup and to provide a single point-of-contact for organizations seeking to take advantage of Aerospace's 40 years of experience in these and related technical areas.
Corporate Chief Engineering Office -
"Getting It Right -- Partnering for Mission Success" Newsletter
"Getting It Right -- Partnering for Mission Success" is a bimonthly newsletter published by The Aerospace Corporation's Corporate Chief Engineering Office focusing on mission assurance for space systems. Each issue offers a range of features, guidance, news, and other information.
Economic and Market Analysis Center (EMAC)
The Economic and Market Analysis Center (EMAC) is The Aerospace Corporation's focal point for space-related economic issues. EMAC's ability to leverage the corporation's technical staff, proprietary databases, industry relationships, and space systems business experience is unique and unrivaled.
Innovative Materials
Members of the office of Innovative Materials invent and develop new material concepts for use by the Space Division of the Air Force and by the technical community in general. Funding for this work has been provided by the Aerospace IR&D program, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Synthetic Multifunctional Materials Programs.
Remote Sensing
Astrophysics and Remote Sensing Science - The Remote Sensing Department of The Aerospace Corporation's Space Science Applications Laboratory is concerned with all aspects of passive imagery and spectroscopy of natural and artificial sources, primarily in the infrared. The department maintains a modeling and analysis facility for understanding and predicting emissions from spacedust and plasmas, atmospheric constituents and rocket exhaust products. At the center of this work is a in-house suite of state-of-the-art IR cameras and spectrographs built for field and laboratory measurements.
Space Science Applications Laboratory
The Aerospace Corporation has been conducting research in Single Event Effects (SEE) for nearly 20 years, including laboratory experiments performed at the 88-inch cyclotron facility in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This research determines whether or not spaceflight components are vulnerable to various SEE, including latchup, spurious pulses, temporary nonfunctionality, and permanent destruction. Some 800 components have been tested so far by Aerospace engineers and scientists for dozens of military, commercial, and scientific programs. SEE test results are analyzed and databased for future reference.
Small Satellite Cost Model (SSCM)
The Small Satellite Cost Model, SSCM, is a parametric cost model that runs on any Microsoft Excel-supported platform. The latest version, SSCM10, estimates the development and production costs of a small satellite bus for Earth-orbiting or near-planetary spacecraft.
