May 10, 2012
Vantage is Supporting Final RBSP Spacecraft Integration for Launch
Vantage integration and test engineers are supporting NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in final preparations of the spacecraft for launch. RBSP is being designed to help us understand the Sun’s influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the Earth’s radiation belts...
May 9, 2012
Vantage Will Support ATLAS Instrument Integration for ICESat-2
Vantage has received a task to support the integration and test (I&T) of the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) instrument for Goddard Space Flight Center. ATLAS is an instrument on Goddard’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is the 2nd-...
May 9, 2012
Vantage Tapped to Provide MMS Instrument Thermal Blankets
Vantage Systems Inc. has been tasked to provide thermal blanket fabrication and integration for the instruments onboard the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS). MMS is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth's magnetosphere as...
Customers & Partnerships
Vantage has established and maintained long-standing relationships with industry leaders at the customer and partner levels. Through the years, our customers have relied on us to continuously provide high-quality engineering and IT services and products. We have selectively partnered with industry leaders whose capabilities, coupled with our own, have provided unique opportunities to reach a diverse spectrum of clients and provide essential solutions targeted to meet specific needs. A partial listing of our clients and partners appears below.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
As a long-standing, award-winning service provider to NASA/GSFC, Vantage continues to provide aerospace engineering and information technology support to NASA/GSFC programs that include Mechanical/Structural Design and Analysis, Software and Computer Systems Development, Space Mission Operations Support, Integration and Test Support, Systems Engineering, and Subsystem Design and Development.
NASA Johnson Space Center
On the ExPRESS Logistics Carrier (ELC) project, Vantage provides mission systems engineering, I&T, systems technology, multidisciplinary analysis and design, and fabrication and test services for payload carriers flown on individual Space Shuttle flights to the International Space Station (ISS). We also provide transition sustaining engineering support services to ensure continuous support to Johnson Space Center ISS External Carriers Office for ISS analytical and physical activities.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Vantage Systems provides services to JHU APL to convert its Space Test Operating Language test scripts to the L-3 JAS format for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Integration & Test effort. This important mission leverages the testing legacy of APL’s last five spacecraft missions to meet RBSP development requirements.
Maryland Department of Information Technology
Vantage has partnered on the Maryland Consulting and Technical Services II (CATS II) contract vehicle to provide IT & technical services to State agencies in primary functional areas including enterprise, web and internet, software engineering, and IT and telecommunications financial and auditing services.
Lockheed Martin
Vantage subcontracts to Lockheed Martin to provide systems engineering, ground system development, and integrated ground system testing support on the NASA GSFC Consolidated Hubble Associated Mission Products (CHAMP) contract.
ASRC Corporation
As a lead subcontractor to ASRC Research and Technology Solutions on the PAAC III contract, Vantage provides program and analysis support including computer systems and IT, project scheduling, and business systems support to NASA/GSFC for multiple missions under the PAAC III contract. Projects supported include Flight Programs & Project, HST Project Support, EXPLORER Program Support, SEU Program, Oceans & Ice Support, POES Project, MMS Project, EOS Project, Rapid Spacecraft Development, GOES Project, SDO Project, Robotic LUNAR Explorer Project, AQUARIUS Radiometer, and Constellation-X.
Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT)
As a subcontractor to SGT, Vantage provides mechanical design/drafting, structural analysis, integration and test services to support GSFC flight projects, including the ELC, GPM, and JWST/ISIM projects on the Mechancal Systems Services (MSES) contract.
Alliant Techsystems
Vantage, as the prime contractor on the NASA GSFC Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) project, provides multidisciplinary engineering services for the formulation, design, development, fabrication, integration, testing, verification, and operations of spaceflight and ground system hardware and software. Vantage utilizes Alliant Techsystems (ATK) as a subcontractor to provide engineering support on the project.
VantageNet™
We have developed a network of accomplished scientists and engineers who have proven their ability to take ownership of a project and have demonstrated a record of success. They bring additional capability, experience, and depth to the Vantage team.