A selection of the projects Vorticity has undertaken is described below. Please contact us for further information about these or other projects.
System Design
Vorticity has performed system design for planetary landers, aerobots and aerocapture systems.
Landing Systems
Vorticity specialises in airbag landing systems for spacecraft for extra-terrestrial use.
While many companies produce airbag systems for use on Earth, the operation of such systems is totally different in the low ambient pressure conditions experienced on typical planetary missions. Vorticity has industry-leading experience in modelling and testing both venting and non-venting airbag systems in these environments. This section describes some of the recent projects in this field.
Descent Systems
Vorticity personnel developed the parachute system for the successful NASA/ESA Cassini/Huygens mission which landed on Titan in January 2005. The company consults to NASA, ESA and a number of other companies on parachute systems for both space and terrestrial use.
The company has state of the art computational facilities which allow modelling of the interaction between flexible parachutes and the complex wake flow behind a payload. This is backed up by decades of practical experience in design, manufacture and testing of parachute systems.