Victus Haze

Program Overview

• Mission: Victus Haze is a responsive space mission for U.S. Space Force
• Launch: Expected to launch in 2025 on Electron within 24 hours' notice
• Scientific Objectives: Enhance Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) capabilities to respond to on-orbit threats within a short timeframe

Experience from 2024

Analysis

• Served as lead structural analyst for Victus Haze from initial concept to Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
• Developed simplified component-level and detailed PDR vehicle-level FEMs, ensuring adherence to Electron mission requirements and performance standards utilizing Simcenter 3D, NX Nastran and SATK
• Performed static and dynamic FEA on primary and secondary structures including quasi-static, random vibration, buckling, bolted joint, payload environmental derivation and shock attenuation
• Conducted iterative design changes at both sub-system and system-level before PDR to ensure ample positive margins in structure with design resolutions for areas of concern

Reporting

• Presented PDR structural analysis to customers and leadership, effectively providing a design path forward to CDR
• Led the transition of critical program work by capturing all analysis methodologies, assumptions, models, and mentored a junior analyst to ensure program continuity and success

Achievements

• Successfully led structural efforts for Victus Haze's PDR, receiving highly positive feedback from U.S. Space Force
• Completed near CDR-level finite element modeling and analysis ahead of PDR, delivering a structurally sound design with ample positive margins, and addressing minor areas of concern with clear design paths forward, all within a two-month timeframe