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Putting Britain back into Space

Tranquility Aerospace: July 2015

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  1. 1. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 2 Who are we? We are privately owned engineering company based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, offering engineering automation design and manufacturing services. Customers include Festo, Intelligent Energy, Ford, Bosch, Parker. Bentley, Cosworth Company directors between them have over 80yrs of engineering experience.
  2. 2. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 3 Areas Component selection Understanding process Load calculations Stress Analysis Electrical Systems Control Systems Software
  3. 3. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 4 Automation
  4. 4. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 5 Automation
  5. 5. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 6 What is Devon One? Single Stage Sub-orbital VTVL Fully reusable 30-40Kg payload Autonomous control systems Orientation thrusters Pressure fuel tanks H2O2 pressure generator Gimbal 5KN main engine, 50bar H2O2/kerosene Retractable landing gear Air breaking decent Point A to A or B flight Altitude 100km
  6. 6. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 7 Interns GRADnet SEPnet SpIN volunteer days hacks Projects 2014/15 Final year student projects Shows The Big Bang UKSC 2015
  7. 7. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 8 Research Propulsion Heat shielding Structural materials Stress Analysis Flow Analysis Thermodynamics Software Data transfer Data Mining
  8. 8. (c) 2014 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 9 Cutting metal
  9. 9. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 10 Testing Autonomous drone Navigation Systems Live data transmission Thruster Engine CubeSat
  10. 10. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 11 Today H2O2 Control Board Fuel Control Board Engine Control Board Landing/Air Brake Control Board Top Level Board Intel Edison Overall systems and command architecture Optocoupler
  11. 11. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 12 Optocoupler
  12. 12. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 13 H2O2 Tank & Pump Fuel Tank Engines 1-5 Landing/Air Brake Top Level Altitude GPS Ground Sensor Communications Gimbal Temperature Pressure Cylinder Position Valves Pressure Valves Fluid Level Temperature Fluid Level Valves Pressure Temperature Valves Current Sensor Current Sensor Current Sensor Current Sensor
  13. 13. (c) 2015 Tranquility Aerospace Ltd 14 @TranquilityAero @tranquilitaerospace Thank You