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Alliance Spacesystems, LLC provides customers with world-class aerospace engineering expertise in a small, customer-focused business environment. Formed July 1, 2006 through the merger of the former Alliance Spacesystems, Inc. (ASI) and Vision Composites, the Pasadena-based company is a leading provider of mechanical systems engineering, custom design and fabrication in composites structures, robotics and mechanisms, and mechanical analyses for systems operating in extreme environments. Alliance Spacesystems’ innovative products are in use on interplanetary spacecraft, telecommunications and scientific satellites and in many challenging terrestrial applications. As of 12/14/2007, Alliance was purchase by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, and is now part of the MDA Federal operating unit.

Staff: The 125-member technical staff has a broad range of direct experience on more than 100 space programs and projects, from Mars and other deep space missions to low-cost small satellites.

Headquarters: Alliance Spacesystems, LLC, 1250 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 100, Pasadena, CA 91103

Facilities:
Pasadena, CA: 14,000 square-foot headquarters facility near JPL includes engineering offices, a precision CNC machine shop, inspection and test labs and a Class-10,000 clean room to meet the rigid cleanliness requirements for spacecraft hardware.
Los Alamitos, CA: 77,000-square-foot facilities are near customers in Los Angeles’ South Bay, such as Boeing, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman Space Technology. The facilities include an environmentally controlled lay-up room, a high bay for lay-up and assembly, large autoclaves, ovens, machine shops for composites manufacture and assembly.

Leadership: Mike Kearney, President and CEO

Core Competencies:
R&M Division
  • Space Robotics and Electromechanical Systems
  • Space Mechanisms
  • Space Structures
  • Project management, engineering, assembly, integration and test to deliver

Space Structures Division
  • Composites manufacturing for space applications
  • Hand-layup of complex geometries using autoclave and/or oven cures
  • Assembly of complex structures
  • Static load instrumentation and testing

Last Updated ( 11/20/2009 )
 
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