Momentus: Vigoride
Veritrek provided insight into confident design decisions
Veritrek helped close the thermal design prior to CDR and allowed for early investigation into future mission planning.
Momentus is a space-infrastructure company that plans to provide in-space transportation as a core service. In preparation for a Critical Design Review, thermal analysts leveraged Veritrek’s unique capabilities to confidently analyze and understand their next generation power propulsive space tug system, Vigoride, in the following ways:
Confidently sweep through multiple thermal inputs to find a thermal design configuration that satisfied all output requirements.
Quickly assess the changes required to both the thermal design and CONOPS procedures, in order to satisfy output requirements in various future missions.
Surface plots were used to compare different combinations of two CONOPS inputs, both without (top) and with (bottom) phase change material (PCM). Veritrek made it easy to see how utilizing PCM can allow for much higher values of both CONOPS inputs and maximize the potential of mission operations.
