Global Aerospace

Global Aerospace Corporation (GAC) was founded in 1997 by former NASA/JPL engineers and scientists as a commercial research and development firm. GAC maintains its corporate office in Irwindale, California, where it develops prototypes and works its projects in a 4,300 sq. ft. R&D office/industrial space. These facilities are used to conduct task e... ngineering work, assembly, integration, and testing of hardware as it is prepared for flight, as well as project meetings and report writing. Our facilities meet Federal, California, and Los Angeles County environmental laws and regulations. Our corporate activities include technical analysis and research, aerospace mission and system concept development, aerospace technology research and development, deep ocean systems research and development, and system design, prototyping, and demonstration. Our corporate team is highly qualified with over 400 years of cumulative aerospace experience. Our corporate knowledge base resides with a highly qualified team of engineers, scientists, consultants, and researchers with expertise in conceptual design and prototyping, systems analysis and engineering, device and mechanical systems design, balloon-borne systems, automation and robotics, mission and orbit design, and thermal sciences. The majority of the technical staff at Global Aerospace Corporation have advanced degrees from research institutions. Our customers are globally recognized aerospace and defense organizations. Kerry T. Nock is the founder, President, and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He received his M. S. in Space Science and Engineering from UCLA. He has worked at JPL on the design of several planetary missions including Mariner 9 to Mars; Mariner 10 to Venus and Mercury; and the Voyager and Galileo missions. He managed the planetary mission studies leading to the successful Magellan Venus mapping mission and the Joint NASA/ESA Cassini mission to Saturn and Titan. He also managed the first studies of planetary aerobraking that was eventually used at Mars ...Read More