Taking IMAX into space – and back

Femap and NX Nastran helped accommodate the late addition of a 555-pound IMAX camera to a NASA shuttle payload

The IMAX camera work was done for Orbital Sciences Corp., a NASA contractor.“Our job is to get the camera up there in one piece and back, which involves protecting it from the extreme forces of lift-off and re-entry,” says Mike Pagnotta, the company’s president.

Pagnotta Engineering used Femap and NX Nastran for the project because Pagnotta knew from experience that it would allow t