Outpost Space Offices

Own flight safety and mission design for reusable reentry vehicles, including trajectory simulations, Monte Carlo dispersion analyses, breakup and debris modeling, risk assessments, flight hazard areas, and recovery planning. Prepare FAA Part 450 licensing materials, lead regulator discussions, establish mission rules and go/no-go criteria, support live operations, and collaborate with GNC, aerothermal, structures, avionics, and reliability teams. Build and validate automated analysis tools and support customer and launch-provider mission studies.

Own aerothermal environment definition for a reusable hypersonic return vehicle across its flight envelope. Run high-enthalpy CFD, engineering heating methods, and custom solver extensions; integrate computational, ground-test, and flight-test data; quantify uncertainties and margins; support TPS, structures, GNC, and trajectory decisions; automate analysis workflows; validate methods; and maintain compute resources.

Own loads, structural dynamics, and multibody dynamics analyses for reusable orbital return vehicles. Define mission-wide dynamic environments, develop models, perform trade studies, support fatigue and durability assessments, plan testing, correlate simulations with hardware and flight data, and translate findings into design requirements and architecture decisions. Collaborate across vehicle architecture, structures, mechanisms, manufacturing, and test teams in a fast-paced aerospace development environment.