Launch Systems and Ranges
Millennium provides the software, hardware and personnel to manage flight and range safety for the 45th and 30th Space Wings, the Federal Aviation Administration, and NASA at Wallops Flight Facility and Edwards Air Force Base. NASA and the Air Force utilize JARSS, a system developed, upgraded and maintained by Millennium, for flight plan approval and real-time range safety for high performance vehicles (HPVs), orbital re-entry vehicles, and Unmanned Aeronautical Vehicles (UAVs) operating in the national airspace outside of the traditional containment boundaries of the Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB). Millennium’s highly qualified engineers perform launch operations support by evaluating debris, toxic, radiation, explosion, and acoustic hazards associated with launch vehicle operations. The experts recommend and develop range safety criteria and launch vehicle abort logic, and develop requirements used to generate mathematical models, algorithms, and computer programs for evaluation of instantaneous impact predication, break-up catalogs of aborted vehicles, debris ballistic fall-back through local atmospheric media, and associated risk to life and property during launch vehicle flight. Millennium performs assessments of government and public agency risk acceptance criteria and their application to missile and space booster launch operations. Millennium’s experts perform launch risk analyses and special risk studies, and investigate, recommend, and develop improvements to human vulnerability models.