Teledyne Brown Presented Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award by ASME for Ares I-X Hardware

Teledyne Brown Engineering announced that the company has received the Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Achievement of the Year Award from the North Alabama Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for the design and manufacture of the Ares I-X Roll Control System (RoCS).

Each year, the North Alabama Section recognizes a company that has demonstrated outstanding innovation through mechanical engineering in the design and/or manufacture of a product or system.  The RoCS, which will maintain and control the roll of the Ares I-X rocket after launch, was a challenge to develop as it involved the adaptation of 20-year-old Peacekeeper thrusters in order to keep the project on cost and completed in time for NASA’s test launch this summer.

“We are deeply honored to be recognized by ASME,” said Rex D. Geveden, TBE president. “Projects such as the Roll Control System showcase our company’s strengths in engineering and manufacturing complex space flight systems within the schedules and budgets required by our customers.”

Teledyne Brown modified and tested the Peacekeeper thrusters so they would meet the requirements of the Ares I-X test flight.  The RoCS team included NASA, TBE, and Rocketdyne.

The RoCS, developed under contract to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, is the first major hardware item manufactured in Huntsville for Ares I-X.