Assuring Mission Success Above
For missions that operate above, performance must be above all else. At Karman, we design and deliver high-performance aerodynamic assemblies that execute without exception to enable every mission. Karman’s turn-key Interstage systems are designed to meet your mission and flight requirements, from electrical signal to safe separation.
Through a collaborative design process, we critically evaluate your requirements and leverage combined metallic and composite capabilities. With the ability to serve any material solution need, Karman is unmatched in delivering the best solution possible for your mission.
System Design and Production, From Electrical Signal to Deployment
Tailored to suit the specific circumstances of your mission, our aerodynamic and interstage systems can provide a lightweight aerodynamic profile to optimize performance. Our energetic systems are designed to provide thrust, zero FOD, and low-induced shock to meet specific system requirements. Karman system solutions are produced using vertically integrated manufacturing capability to ensure quality and performance. Our trusted technologies in this area include:
- Aerodynamic Assemblies
- Attachment Rings and Interstage Assemblies
- Control Surfaces
- Energetic and Deployment Systems
- UAV Assemblies
Ensuring Reliable Deployment and Safe Operation
Operating from fire command to the final flight phase, Karman’s whole-system solutions provide the reliability required to execute some of the most complex tasks in Space and Defense. With comprehensive design capabilities, we enable mission-critical functions from electrical signaling to safe separation.
Through rigorous environmental and flight testing, our technology is designed to operate with a razor-thin margin of error and can execute exceptionally in even the most challenging circumstances. With wide-ranging in-house manufacturing capabilities and a wider bench of field-proven designs, we also drive key project improvements like reducing system size, weight, and overall performance risk.
Energetic Systems
Partner with a proven leader in the design, analysis, test, and production of energetic systems that use a solid propellant main charge. Few, if any, companies have designed systems with more configurations of solid propellants than we have, meaning we possess the established expertise to address your most critical mission needs. We empower elevated system performance by tailoring grain composition and configuration and leveraging well-characterized propellants to ensure reliability and mission success.
Karman’s ordnance engineers have decades of expertise in propellant grain design, performance optimization, and system qualification for critical missions from missile defense to crewed space flight.
Karman systems include launch systems, separation systems, pyroactuator systems, emergency egress systems and more.
Initiation Systems
Empower unfaltering system protection and operation with electronic and electromechanical safe & arm solutions, firesets, and interrupter devices. Our ensured system performance is backed by extensive experience qualifying safe & arm and initiation systems for all DoD services and a range of safety systems for hypersonics, missiles, and launch vehicles. Leveraging deep domain knowledge of Defense and Space specification requirements, we tailor targeted design approaches to meet mission standards and make mission success certain.
We rigorously evaluate and optimize initiation systems, ensuring they are qualified to comply with key Specification Design Standards, including JOTP-52, Mil-Std-1901A, RCC-319, Mil-Std-331, Mil-Std-464, Mil-DTL-23659, and AIAA-S-113.
Advance Above with Advanced Materials
As the demand for lighter, stronger, and more dependable systems increases, so do the demands placed on manufacturers. At Karman, we keep pace with the rapidly evolving nature of Space and Defense mission requirements, leveraging advanced material technologies and manufacturing processes to keep our customers at the cutting edge of capability. From lightweight composite solutions that increase rocket range to metallic solutions that are spun-form, we relentlessly pursue every opportunity for performance improvement. Our material expertise is leveraged in the engineering and design of our systems to meet your mission needs.
How We Do It
Merging unmatched engineering expertise with comprehensive production capabilities, Karman designs, develops, and delivers highly dependable missile systems.
Karman supports critical Defense missions with Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Hypersonics, and Missile Defense solutions that leverage the latest technologies and composite materials to drive dominance for the warfighter in every domain.
Our aerodynamic and interstage solutions enable America’s most ambitious Space missions to operate above with assurance.
