Bloomingdale, NJ – July 6, 2016 – The VMC Group, a world leader in innovative shock, seismic, vibration and engineering services, is pleased to announce it has been awarded a $1.6 million dollar contract by Boeing. The VMC Group will provide Boeing with engineering testing services and isolators that will be used in NASA’s unprecedented Space Launch System (SLS), the largest and most powerful rocket to ever be built.
The SLS is a heavy-lift launch vehicle that is designed for deep space exploration beyond Earth’s orbit, with astronauts and cargo, which is currently under development. The SLS is approximately 38 stories tall, weighs 6.5 million lbs and has 9 million lbs of thrust. The ultimate goal of the SLS is a Mars landing in 2030. Boeing is the prime contractor for the core stage component of the launch vehicle, which includes its avionics.
VMC’s isolators will be used to absorb the vibration of the rack that holds the critical avionics inside the core stage of the SLS. The core stage will house all of the vehicle’s avionics that will control the SLS during flight, including flight computers, instrumentation, sensors and other electronics. Boeing and VMC have established a lengthy test plan that will involve load deflection testing over the next year. Based on this testing, VMC will continue to evolve their products in preparation for the SLS test launch from Kennedy Space Center, which is expected to take place in late 2018.
“The VMC Group is proud to have an established working relationship with Boeing spanning many years,” states John Wilson, Jr., Chief Executive Officer of The VMC Group. “We’re excited to be able to provide solutions for a project of this magnitude that is so progressive in nature and one that could potentially lead to an extraordinary milestone in space exploration.”
For nearly ten decades, The VMC Group has been recognized as a world leader in the design and manufacture of vibration isolation and seismic energy management technologies. The VMC Group and their Engineering Services Division have been providing Special Seismic Certification to Fortune 500 companies and manufacturers of HVAC, power generation and fire protection systems for more than 10 years. The VMC Group is accredited by the International Accreditation Service (IAS) as a Product Certification Agency PCA-127, Third-Party Certification Body making VMC the first and only product certifying agency for special seismic certification of non structural building components and their mounting configurations.
Source: The VMC Group
