Mclaurin Aerospace provides Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) subject matter expertise supporting design, analysis, and certification for missiles, launch vehicles, entry vehicles, and spacecraft. Our technical staff have extensive design and flight test experience supporting high-reliability and human-rated systems, including NASA’s Space Launch System, Ares I/I-X, Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, MDA’s Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI), Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV), and other MDA and Air Force Programs.
Our innovations include significant contributions to the state of the art in spacecraft reaction control, novel retrospective insights into hypersonic systems, direct methods for optimization of digital bending filters, and the design and flight test of the first ever human-rated launch vehicle adaptive control system.
NASA’s Space Launch System 
HLS Lunar Landing 
Space Shuttle 
Ares 1/1-X
CAPABILITIES
- Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) solutions for spacecraft, launch vehicles, landers, and missile systems
- Attitude control design for mixed actuation systems: thrust vectoring, RCS jets, reaction wheels, and control moment gyroscopes
- Stability analysis, filter design and dynamic modeling including flexible structure modes and liquid propellant slosh
- Navigation performance modeling and error covariance analysis for gyrocompasing, alignment and stochastic uncertainties
- High-fidelity nonlinear sensor modeling for verification and real-time simulation
- Flight control, trajectory design and path variation generation for human-in-the-loop piloting with Level 1 handling qualities
- Rendezvous, proximity operations, capture, and docking
- Uncertainty analysis and capabilities assessment
- Numerical methods, sensitivity analysis and dispersion modeling
- Multi-rate systems and digital signal processing
- Flight software development, integration, and certification
- Failure Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR)/Mission and Fault Management (M&FM) algorithm design
With the increased infusion of software-based autonomy into mission-critical systems, experience is crucial and our experts can help your team succeed. Please contact us to learn more about our GN&C products and capabilities.