Swales & Associates Overview

Swales & Associates, Inc. provides engineering services to the aerospace industry. The company focuses on providing services for the study, design, development, fabrication, integration, testing, verification, and operations of spaceflight, ground system hardware and software; development and manufacture of two-phase thermal control technology for space applications. Its services include design, analysis, fabrication, testing, and integration of components, subsystems, systems, instruments, free-flying satellites, planetary rovers, and space shuttle/international space station payloads; program management, mission systems and flight systems engineering, mechanical/structural design and analysis, electrical and thermal systems, contamination control engineering, materials engineering, optical/RF systems and analysis, and aerodynamics and acoustics analysis; and guidance, navigation and control engineering. The company also provides technology and systems solutions for NASA s exploration and science satellite initiatives. In addition, it offers thermal control to the satellites used in the television, direct broadcast radio, and cellular telephone systems; and spacecraft, space and laser subsystems, endoatmospheric subsystems, information technology, and classified programs for military and Intel communities. The company provides technologies in application areas, such as nanosatellites, laser packaging, cryogenic systems, and thermal systems for space systems, terrestrial, surface, and subsurface military applications. Swales & Associates, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is based in Beltsville, Maryland. The company operates as a subsidiary of ATK Space Systems, Inc.