Different systems. Different environments. The same intent — to find the design that the machine, the budget, and the people building it could all carry forward.
Three case studies, told first-hand. Each is an account of a problem, a moment of insight, and a design that resolved both.
One month to review, manufacture, and qualify a mirror assembly destined for the port plug of a Tokamak. The existing design was a heavy metal assembly fighting electromagnetic fields it had no business being made of. We threw the architecture out and started from the material the physicist actually wanted.
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The chamfer was on every piston anyone in the room had ever seen. It didn’t belong on ours. A close read of the part — and the courage to change one detail no one could justify — resolved an oil-consumption problem the whole team had been chasing.
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Ten engine configurations, a 110° TVCA layout no one wanted to accept, and a lighter machine designed around the rocket — not around itself. A study in designing through resistance.
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A propulsion module designed at Cog for a small aerospace startup was later acquired by Muon Space. Hardware lives on past the project; we design accordingly.