TECHNOLOGY
SMALLER COMPENENTS, LOWER COSTS, HIGHER PAYLOAD
OUR CUBESATS
Due to the miniaturization of technology in the last few years, it is now possible to put a camera, an image processing unit, and the necessary support electronics into a 3-unit CubeSat with the size of 30x10x10 cm³. The so-called New Space movement enables the launch of standardized nanosatellites. They are built with commonly available off-the-shelf components, and are relatively cheap compared to old large satellites, allowing the establishment of larger constellations.
EACH HOTSPOT DETECTED IN REAL-TIME
CONSTELLATION OF NANOSATELLITES
- 600 km sun-synchronous orbit
- Up to 7 orbital planes, launched in several steps
- Multiple revisits every hour
- Launched on ad-hoc rideshare missions as well as dedicated launches
SATELLITE FRAMEWORK
Our patented CubeSat architecture leads to a 40% higher payload volume compared to traditional CubeSat systems. It allows to integrate parts of the satellite bus into multiple, redundant side-panels and therefore enables high scalability and reliability of our satellite.
INFRARED CAMERA
ON-ORBIT PROCESSING
RELAY COMMUNICATION
OUR ENGINEERING CAPABILITIES
ELECTRONICS, OPTICS AND MECHANICAL R&D
We are not only building our own CubeSats. We also offer our experience to customers in other disciplines:
- SATELLITE COMMUNICATION
As partner of Globalstar Inc. we develop and manufacture custom satellite communication modules (as we showed within the Track & Trust project).
- HIGH PRECISION THERMAL MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Our optical imaging department offers support for MWIR and TIR design applications, high-precision thermal management solutions and IRFPA raw data post processing know-how.
- HIGH RELIABILITY APPLICATIONS
Many members of our team were involved in the MOVE-II CubeSat, which is operational in orbit since Dec 2018. We have know-how in software and hardware development for high-reliability applications (as shown in the EMPS project).
- HIGH PERFORMANCE & LOW POWER COMPUTING
As member of the NVIDIA Inception program we offer high-performance & low-power computing solutions, based on the NVIDIA Jetson module and custom carrier boards.
- FPGA DEVELOPMENT
We have an FPGA development environmet for System-on-Chip applications, with focus on camera readout, storage and PCIe high-speed data transfer to a processing module.
- FULLY AUTONOMOUS TEST ENVIRONMENT
Our lab is fully equipped with an electronics soldering/rework station, SMD production line, rapid prototyping capabilities, an optics test bench with calibration sources specialized for IR experiments and a fully autonomous test environment (24/7 automated surveillance and data collection into the cloud, cloud based online visualization of parameters).
