Redwire highlights HOSS (Hyperion Operational Space Simulation Laboratory)

Redwire, the Jacksonville, Florida-based space infrastructure company, has unveiled its Hyperion Operational Space Simulation Laboratory (HOSS), which it describes as “a first-of-its-kind digital engineering environment”.

Announcing “initial operational capability” for the state-of-the-art facility, the company says it is designed to address next-generation space architectures and solutions, via artificial intelligence, machine learning and cyber technologies.

It will be made available to commercial space and national security space customers, to enable prototyping of systems, proving of concepts and experimentation. The idea is to “improve agility, lower technical risk and reduce cost for our customers”, said Redwire.

“We have taken a highly innovative approach to develop HOSS and, through virtualization, this lab is accessible from remote locations, allowing distributed development and collaboration. This virtual environment and our space subject matter expertise are a powerful combination utilized to demonstrate high-fidelity future architectures and capabilities for our mission partners,” said Stanley O. Kennedy, Jr., Chief Architect of Redwire (pictured).

“HOSS will be the premier digital engineering framework designed to empower our customers with improved modeling and simulation to take on their most ambitious missions and enable rapid acquisition development to keep pace with threats, technology and innovation opportunities.”

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Hoss is described as being based on a Modular Open System Architecture, using common interfaces and standards, allowing users to swap out third-party components and systems.

“Additionally, HOSS captures physical systems and virtual processes to learn and automate, making testing and manufacturing more cost effective. Using commercial best practices, HOSS provides rapid and secure software development, enabling digital twins, improving cyber security tools and offering opportunities to speed delivery of new capabilities for Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2).”

The announcement follows a recent demonstration of the company’s Hybrid Space Architecture Laboratory Operational Environment (HALOE). This allows users to simulate hybrid space architectures for advanced mission planning in support of complete JADC2 (the U.S. Department of Defense’s concept to connect sensors from all of the military services – air, land and sea – into a single network).

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We also wrote recently of two Lockheed Martin state-of-the-art aerospace-related facilities (the STAR Center in Florida and the Skunk Works in California).

In July, the company officially opened its Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center as an advanced manufacturing facility to expand Orion spacecraft production.

Last month, it also completed construction of an advanced manufacturing facility at its Palmdale, California, campus and headquarters. The 215,000 square foot building will serve the company’s advanced-projects division, dubbed Skunk Works.