MAPS? Overview
Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company
When Milliseconds Matter
PacSci EMC has for several decades supported various Missile Defense Agency and Active Protection programs with Attitude Control Systems (ACS). These systems are a marriage of our long heritage designing and manufacturing solid propellant grains with our Smart Energetic Architecture sequencing system. These technologies working in combination can provide precision thrust to enable interception of an incoming threat. Typical implementation on these platforms consisted of an array of small motors making up a ring segment of the vehicle or payload as shown below.
By arranging the motors in a flat array and sequencing the firings to be balanced around a central axis, PacSci EMC created the MAPS? Solid Propulsion System. MAPS? is easily scalable to meet mission requirements and can be implemented in a variety of form factors. The system offers convenience of a bolt on system and eliminates the need for complex tanks, valves, plumbing and toxic fuel.
In late 2017, PacSci EMC launched PACSCISAT, a 3U CubeSat fitted with MAPS? solid rocket motors and SEA? controllers. Over the course of several months we commanded the firing of various motor pairs. The PACSCISAT mission successfully achieved all mission objectives, with MAPS? performing as predicted in preflight modeling.
MAPS? Differentiation