Frontier Astrodynamics is an experienced team of spacecraft navigators with a background in developing operational astrodynamics and navigation systems and tools for:
NASA's U.S. Space Shuttle Missions and the James Webb Space Telescope
Commercial Space Mobility and Orbital Transfer platforms
Commercial Rendezvous and Proximity Operations systems
Industry-leading Commercial GEOINT and Earth-Imaging Constellations
US Defense and Intelligence Space Programs
A number of startup space companies' early mission development and analysis across the spectrum of orbital regimes
We specialize in:
Mission, Trajectory and Delta-V Design, Planning, and Optimization
Large Trade-Space and Constellation Performance Analysis Optimization
Orbit Determination, Navigation, and Covariance Analysis Support
Expertise in developing automated GMAT, MONTE, STK/Astrogator/ODTK, and FreeFlyer flight dynamics products, analysis, and operational solutions in multi-language frameworks (Python, Java, MATLAB, etc)
Mission operations solution developing flight dynamics algorithms and tools for LEOP, critical, routine, and end-of-life ground navigation and maneuver/delta-v planning
Space Situational Awareness, Conjunction Assessment and Collision Mitigation solutions and tools
Proposal support, consultation, and assessment
Independent verification and validation
Classified mission support
Experience developing optimal trajectories and constellations a variety of orbit regimes (LEO, GEO, RPOD, Cislunar, Deep-Space+) using in-house and off-the-shelf tools such as:
GMAT, MONTE, STK/Astrogator/ODTK, FreeFlyer, etc
Support for early mission concepts helping to analyze and optimize for:
Constellation sizing
Constellation Geometries
Trajectory Planning
Delta-V budgets
Support in Development of Space Situational and Analsysis Visualization Suites in Cesium, Cosmographia, STK and GMAT
VR, AR, XR Space Scenario Visualization Suite Development and Solutions in GMAT and STK utilizing SteamVR and Occulus Displays
Proven experience developing pre-mission and operational navigation solutions
Custom solutions implementing systems designed to accomodate multiple measurement typrs such as:
Radiometric Ranging
Ground-Observation
On-board GPS and Optical Nav based Orbit Determination
DSN and commercial ground network capabilities
Core astrodynamics software solutions combing the flight-proven capabilities of tools such as GMAT, STK, and Monte with API interfaces allowing auotmation and user-control through a variety of programming languages such as Python and MATLAB
Robust development of common procedures such as orbit determination, maneuever planning, orbit predicition, event and timeline products