Commercial Spaceport Licensing RS&H is a leader in developing documentation for commercial spaceport licensing, assisting airports in positioning themselves to take advantage of future horizontal launch/recovery operations by commercial spacecraft. This formative industry combines RS&H’s extensive knowledge of launch infrastructure requirements with its experience in airport planning. Merging these two industries [...]
Flame Trench and Deflector System at Launch Complex 39B RS&H was honored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 2020 with a Silver Achievement Medal for the combined teams’ success in modifying and constructing the flame trench and deflector system at Launch Complex 39B (LC39B). This joint effort between [...]
Description Aerospace Manufacturing, Processing & Assembly Buildings Engineering Location Kennedy Space Center, FL Client NASA Solid Rocket Motor Production and Refurbishment Facility RS&H provided site development, permitting, master planning preliminary engineering design. final design and construction surveillance of a $ 57 million, 200,000-square-foot industrial facility [...]
Description Aerospace Manufacturing, Process & Assembly Buildings Architecture Additions/Renovations Location Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL Client/Owner US Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District Centaur Cryogenic Tanking Facility RS&H provided final design, environmental permit applications, and construction services for a secure complex for off-pad cryogenic [...]
Description Aerospace Spaceport Planning Planning Master Planning Aviation Aviation-Planning Environmental Location Jacksonville, FL Client/Owner Jacksonville Aviation Authority Cecil Field Spaceport RS&H prepared a Commercial Spaceport Master Plan for the Jacksonville Aviation Authority – the first of its kind in the nation. The master plan outlined [...]
Atlas V Space Operations Center Under a design-build working relationship, RS&H provided the full design for an addition to the MIS Building, including a Mission Director’s Center and Launch Control Center. The Launch Control Center is a two-story addition, which houses the Launch Control Room, computer support rooms, and additional viewing [...]
Description Aerospace Space Launch Facilities Design-Build Contractors Contractors-Buildings Location Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL Client Hensel Phelps Owner Lockheed Martin Atlas V Space Launch Complex 41 The Atlas V is one of the US Government’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELV). It carries the nation's [...]
Atlas V ECS Test Tools RS&H designed at total of seven test tools, along with ancillary mounting accessories and fittings, to simulate the backpressure of the Atlas V Mobile Launch vehicle for each Environmental Conditioning System (ECS) circuit up to the vehicle. The tools also accurately measure the flow in each circuit so that [...]
Description Aerospace Ground Support Equipment Location Cape Canaveral, FL Atlas V Cryogenics & Gases Systems Booster LO2 System RS&H designed the Booster Storage and Transfer Facility is a 450,000-Gallon storage tank, with sixteen (16) vaporizer units and related pneumatic control panels at (6) stations for [...]
Atlas V at Cape Canaveral & Vandenberg RS&H has completed numerous design-build projects for Atlas V: Space Operations Center Design of an addition to the Missile Inert Storage Building, which included a Launch Control Center and Mission Director’s Center. Space Launch Complex 3E Design services included civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical for the HVAC [...]