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 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 [...]
Description Aerospace Ground Support Equipment Location Kennedy Space Center, FL Client/Owner NASA SLS Mobile Launcher and Extensible Columns In preparation of NASA’s new Space Launch System, RS&H prepared the complete design, construction, and installation details for the Mobile Launcher’s extensible columns at Kennedy Space Center’s [...]
Description Aerospace Ground Support Equipment Location Kennedy Space Center, FL Client/Owner NASA SLS Main Flame Deflector Geometry Study RS&H completed a study and produced electronic models for the Main Flame Deflector configurations for NASA’s Space Launch System and Commercial Launch Vehicles at Kennedy Space Center [...]
Description Aerospace Ground Support Equipment First Stage Orbiting Vehicle Pallet/Transporter The RS&H-designed vehicle pallet provides horizontal processing and mate support functions. Some of these include vehicle soft-point and hard-point interfaces; independent rotational, lateral, and vertical alignment at each end, transport casters sets for concrete floor [...]
Description Aerospace Ground Support Equipment Manufacturing, Processing & Assembly Buildings Engineering Structural Engineering Location Kennedy Space Center, FL Client NASA Vehicle Assembly Building For over 55 years the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has been a mission-critical focus [...]
Description Aerospace Ground Support Equipment Parachute Installation Fixture The Parachute Installation Fixture was designed to integrate with other processing GSE and provide a safe, efficient, motion controlled means of loading the prepared descent parachute packs into the parachute bay in the launch vehicle. It [...]
Description Aerospace Ground Support Equipment Location Kennedy Space Center, FL Client/Owner NASA NASA Mobile Launcher Mount Lifting Sling RS&H provided design services for the Launch Mount Lifting Sling for NASA at Kennedy Space Center. The sling was used to transfer the Launch Mount from Deck [...]
Description Aerospace Ground Support Equipment Launch Mount and Adaptor at Launch Pad 0A RS&H provided design drawings and construction support for a Multivehicle Launch Mount at Launch Pad 0A at Wallops Flight Facility. The design accommodates a class of launch vehicles with a maximum thrust [...]