NASA SBIR SUCCESS STORY Goddard Space Flight Center 
1994 Phase II

TCON™ Concurrent Engineering Software Suite

Frederick A. Costello, Inc.

Herndon, VA 
 

INNOVATION
    Low-cost yet versatile software for integrating thermal modeling with other engineering disciplines
TCONTMConcurrent Engineering Software Suite
TCON™Concurrent Engineering 
Software Suite
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
    • TCON Concurrent Engineering Software enables graphical user-interface programs to create full 3-dimensional thermal models
    • Reduces modeling time to one-third
    • Provides better accuracy in modeling
    • True concurrent engineering for thermal applications
COMMERCIALIZATION
    • Licenses of the software system have been sold to numerous US and foreign companies
    • Used on commercial GEO & LEO satellites and terrestrial & space electronics cooling
GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
    • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has purchased a derivative of the software code, applied to thruster plum effects, now that it has been applied to five different NASA spacecraft.
    • The TCON™ derivative has had many NASA applications, including being used to design of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and to help resolve a post-launch anomaly on the TERRA spacecraft.
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