Capabilities
Moonshot Aerospace provides GN&C engineering across the full system lifecycle: requirements and architecture, control law and guidance design, navigation, modeling and simulation, flight software integration, and verification and test. Capabilities are model-based and analysis-driven, applied across Class A through Class D programs.
GN&C System Design
Full-lifecycle GN&C development from requirements decomposition through architecture, control law and guidance design, navigation filter design, covariance analysis, and sensor fusion across LiDAR, star tracker, IMU, and altimeter. Model-based design methodology carries a system from concept through verification.
Terrain Relative Navigation
Four dissimilar terrain relative navigation (TRN) techniques provide redundant position updates across all phases of descent: active TRN, optical feature-based localization, LiDAR-based visual odometry, and advanced active TRN. The architecture is sensor-agnostic, with an IMU-only fallback that allows a safe landing in the event of a sensor outage.
Descent and Landing Systems
Powered descent guidance built on convex optimization, constraining thrust magnitude and glideslope angle to produce safe, propellant-efficient, hazard-aware trajectories. Includes landing dynamics simulation and hazard detection and avoidance.
6DOF Simulation and Analysis
A modular six-degree-of-freedom simulation framework supporting Monte Carlo dispersion analysis (500-plus run sets), TRICK-compatible execution above 1000 Hz, full environment and sensor modeling, and flight software development in C, C++, and MATLAB.
Docking, Separation, and Contact Dynamics
Multi-body 6DOF contact dynamics for docking, berthing, separation, and landing; mechanism design and trade studies; capture and load-envelope prediction; hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) test support; and model correlation from ground test data.
Propellant Slosh Dynamics
High-G and low-G slosh modeling for cryogenic propellants (liquid oxygen and methane), flight data correlation, and reaction control system (RCS) utilization analysis.
Control Systems
Multivariable control system design and analysis, control law development, nonlinear flight controls and guidance, and phase-plane and attitude control design.