![]() Quartus is a small engineering firm based in San Diego, CA that works with many industry-leading companies, such as Boeing and Honeywell, specializing in the design, analysis, and testing of aerospace and mechanical systems. Many of the projects that Quartus has worked on include: A rival to the now under-construction Giant Magellan Telescope The first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within 2 weeks Winner of the ten million dollar Ansari X-Prize The largest solid-propellant motors ever flown and the first designed ![]() for reuse Provide 71.4% of thrust at lift-off up to about 150,000 feet Cobra UAS A low-cost, highly reliable unmanned aerial vehicle platform Designed as a test bed for the development, test and demonstration of sensor systems; networked command control and communications systems; UAS architectural concepts; and small weapons An expendable orbital launch system in the Delta rocket family ![]() Configurable to suit specific payload sizes and weight ranges Primarily for U.S. military use A robotic mission to the Moon, launched June 18, 2009 Designed to spend one year in a polar orbit collecting detailed information about the Moon’s environment |