Teams at Relative Dynamics Inc.

Responsible for reviewing, testing, and certifying flight termination system (FTS) hardware and electronics to ensure safety, reliability, and compliance. Perform environmental qualification (thermal, vibration, EMI/EMC), apply NASA/MIL-STD/FAA range safety requirements, and provide operational and systems support for launch vehicle safety.

Perform flight hazard identification, risk and casualty expectation analyses, calculate flight safety limits for guided and unguided orbital and sub-orbital vehicles, evaluate failure modes and fault trees, support mission compliance with range safety criteria, and produce technical briefings and reports for launch operations.

Leads mission operations planning for NASA satellite missions, including activation and calibration sequences, contingency procedures, ground testing, mission rehearsals, operations concepts, staffing and facility planning, spacecraft-to-ground data flows, and science data traceability. Coordinates instrument, spacecraft, flight operations, science, and IT security teams while driving working group decisions and action items to completion.