Nominal Systems is an Australia-based software company that provides a digital engineering platform designed to help aerospace companies build, test, and validate satellite designs and performance in a virtual environment. Their digital twin platform aims to minimize the risk of mission failure, offering high-fidelity simulations and analysis tools for spacecraft design, testing, and operations. Nominal Systems works with organizations like the UK Ministry of Defence, Gilmour Space Technologies, and the Australian National University, and has partnerships with companies like Bright Ascension. Key words associated with Nominal Systems include: digital twins, satellite simulation, aerospace software, mission planning, and space system testing.
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The 2019 Chandrayaan-2 mission placed an orbiter around the Moon but the lander lost communications after a nominal descent down to an altitude of around two kilometers.
The Galileo system was reconfigured and restored to a nominal situation as of 2020-12-14 at 06:00 UTC.
The Senate fiscal year 2021 bill provides NASA with its highest funding level in nominal dollars.
NASA delayed Crew-1 to provide more time for SpaceX to complete hardware testing and data reviews as the company evaluates off-nominal behavior of Falcon 9 first stage engine gas generators observed during a recent non-NASA mission launch attempt.
Astra attempted to launch its Rocket 3.0 vehicle from Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska on 2020-03-02 but scrubbed the launch less than a minute before liftoff due to off-nominal guidance, navigation, and control data.
The 2020-02-09 NG-13 launch was postponed because of off-nominal readings from a ground support sensor.
Spaceway-3 was launched in 2007 and was designed for an approximately 12-year life, placing the satellite near or past its nominal service run.
After Northrop Grumman’s L-1011 aircraft took off for a 2018-11-07 launch attempt, engineers detected off-nominal data from the Pegasus rocket and scrubbed the launch.
The Vikram lander performed nominal descent down to an altitude of 2.1 km and then communications from the lander to ground stations were lost.
Jim Bridenstine suggested at a 2019-03-27 House appropriations subcommittee hearing that the Green Run test could be skipped in favor of testing each engine individually under off-nominal conditions.
If the Long March 5 nominal flight is successful, the Chinese Space Station core module Tianhe could be launched likely no earlier than in the second half of 2020.
Jim Bridenstine proposed testing each RS-25 engine individually at very high off-nominal conditions as a potential way to reduce risk and cut six months from the vehicle’s development schedule.
Engineers detected off-nominal data from the Pegasus rocket after the L-1011 aircraft took off for the 2018-11-07 ICON launch attempt, and the launch was scrubbed.
The Mars Exploration Rovers were designed with nominal 90-day mission lifetimes but each far exceeded that lifespan.
From geostationary transfer orbit, the satellites will use onboard propulsion to circularize into nominal geostationary orbits approximately 36,0 m above the Earth.
A nominal Long March 5 return-to-flight would clear the way for a test launch of the Long March 5B, a variant designed to loft 20-metric-ton Chinese Space Station modules into low Earth orbit.
A nominal Long March 5 flight would clear the way for a test flight of the Long March 5B variant designed to loft 20-metric-ton space station modules into low Earth orbit.
China plans to launch the first module of the Chinese Space Station, named Tianhe, around 2020 contingent on the nominal return-to-flight of the Long March 5 launch vehicle and a successful debut of the Long March 5B.
Al Yah 3 arrived at its orbital slot slightly earlier than YahSat had predicted after its January Ariane 5 launch sent the satellite into an off-nominal geostationary transfer orbit.