Aerospace Engineering & Infrastructure Solutions

Innovative Aerospace Engineering & Infrastructure Design

Since the dawn of America’s space program, RS&H has delivered trusted aerospace solutions, supporting every NASA launch since Apollo and numerous U.S. Department of Defense missions.

Building on this legacy, we provide innovative, resilient aerospace infrastructure and facility design services for public and commercial space missions, advancing exploration and discovery.

Our integrated teams deliver comprehensive aerospace services, encompassing architecture, engineering, planning, construction management, and activation support. We specialize in the engineering of space launch facilities, spacecraft processing facilities, aerospace assembly building design, cleanrooms, secure facilities, and propellant systems. Our expertise encompasses designing infrastructure for suborbital and orbital spacecraft, modifying rocket launch pads, and conducting dynamic and thermal analyses for space mission support equipment.

From small missiles and orbital habitats to colossal rockets like the Space Launch System (SLS) for Artemis, RS&H delivers integrated aerospace engineering and architectural design services to help clients achieve their boldest missions.

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Aerospace Focus Areas & Services

RS&H delivers end-to-end aerospace infrastructure engineering consulting services that support every stage of a mission. From spaceport planning to rocket launch pad design and spacecraft processing facilities, our expertise helps clients turn bold visions into operational reality.

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Spaceport Planning & Licensing

Whether your spaceport is a new greenfield site or the evolution of an existing airport or launch facility, RS&H can help bring your vision to life. We specialize in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) licensed spaceport consulting, guiding communities, agencies, and private entities through every step, from designing infrastructure for suborbital and orbital spacecraft to creating market-driven master plans. Our expertise supports state and federal space agencies, space entrepreneurs, defense contractors, and municipalities, ensuring your aerospace infrastructure development is strategically planned for long-term success.

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Launch Facilities & Infrastructure

For over 50 years, RS&H has delivered reliable, efficient, and cost-effective space launch facility engineering and aerospace infrastructure design services. We understand the technical requirements of complex launch pad systems, including flame diverters, lightning protection, water deluge, gantries, crew egress systems, and propellant storage. Our team excels in designing and modifying rocket launch pads for civil, commercial, and military missions, integrating environmental analysis and advanced safety systems to ensure readiness for every launch.

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Ground Support Equipment

RS&H offers comprehensive aerospace engineering solutions for a wide range of ground support equipment and mission-critical systems. Our expertise covers propulsion test stands, lifting fixtures, stabilizer arms, fueling systems, and high-pressure gas distribution/control systems for both cryogenic and hypergolic fueling systems. We deliver designs that interface with satellites, launch vehicles, human spacecraft, and space stations, supported by advanced analysis—including dynamic and thermal analysis for space mission support equipment, computational fluid dynamics, hazard and safety evaluations, and cost studies—to ensure reliability from concept to operation.

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Manufacturing, Processing, & Assembly Buildings

From aerospace assembly building design to specialized spacecraft processing facilities, RS&H creates operationally efficient environments for mission success. We plan and design facilities for hazardous payload processing, clean rooms, SCIFs, control and operations centers, astronaut training, and biological sample handling. Our integrated aerospace engineering and architectural design services address the unique challenges of assembly, integration, and testing, ensuring every structure supports critical launch and space operations while meeting stringent safety, security, and environmental requirements.

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NASA Asteroid Curation Facility

As a valued partner with NASA since the 1960s, RS&H started the project with a contract for HVAC repairs, which blossomed into laboratory repairs, laboratory design, and a master plan that would consolidate the ARES division from six buildings down to two.

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SLS Mobile Launcher & Launch Tower

NASA Kennedy Space Center entrusted RS&H to vet the feasibility of and design modifications to the Space Launch System (SLS) Mobile Launcher. The 355-foot-tall mobile launcher is designed to support the assembly, testing, check out, and servicing of NASA’s SLS rockets, as well as transfer the rockets to the pad.

Aerospace

NASA Launch Control Center Firing Rooms Renovation

RS&H studied and designed renovations to the Kennedy Space Center Launch Control Center Firing Rooms, where launch operations are supervised and controlled. Maintaining operations during construction was also essential, as several shuttle launches took place during the renovation.

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Orion Spacecraft Shaker Support Stand

RS&H designed a shaker support stand for the Orion random vibration shaker test. The design incorporates a heavy duty commercially available gantry crane as the primary shaker support stand structure.

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Spaceport America Master Plan

Spaceport America is the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world. The FAA-licensed launch complex is situated on 18,000 acres adjacent to the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico.

Aerospace

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