Principal-led
structural practice.
Senior structural engineering for aerospace payloads, defense systems, and precision hardware.
Senior structural work.
CSD Aero supports commercial and defense spacecraft payloads, precision instruments, and flight hardware from concept through FEM, test, correlation, and margin closure. All work is performed at the principal level: the engineer you contact is the engineer who builds the models, runs the analysis, and stands behind the results at review — no hand-offs, no staffing layer.
Jason Eddins
CSD Aero is built around direct ownership of the technical basis — analysis structured for design decisions, test readiness, and review.
Program experience includes commercial communications payloads, DoD precision instrument systems, and flight-tested structures through qualification and modal test correlation.
Representative
program work.
Payload structures, modal test campaigns, failure analysis, and analysis-led recovery.
Payload Structure — Concept Through Launch
End-to-end ownership of a major payload structure — from initial development and interface definition with the bus provider through architectural layout, load-cycle analysis, and final sine and acoustic test ahead of fairing integration.
Modal Test — Prediction Through Correlation
Full-cycle modal test ownership — pre-test predictions, instrumentation and excitation definition, on-site test support, and post-test model correlation against orthogonality and correlation criteria.
Progressive Failure Analysis — Test Basis
Identified negative margins ahead of a test campaign. Established the basis to proceed using progressive failure analysis and refined the instrumentation plan to capture the predicted response. The article failed as predicted.
Assembly Distortion Recovery
Nonlinear contact analysis of a thin gasketed interface exhibiting excessive bolt-up deflection. Devised a compliant feature introducing a precise opposing deflection to restore assembly fit and installation tolerance.
Based in Southern California.
Remote and on-site support available. Experienced handling export-controlled technical data.