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
ELECTRONICS, OPTICS AND MECHANICAL R&D
OUR ENGINEERING CAPABILITIES
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).
EACH HOTSPOT DETECTED IN REAL-TIME
THERMAL IMAGER DRONE LAUNCH TEST
The satellite development crew took our Thermal and VIS camera payload for a test flight with a drone to see the functionality from different altitudes. Various heat sources and temperature sensors were put into place for the imager to analyze during the two test flights. With the help of LRT, we successfully executed the drone flight to gather data from the imager to produce data for our fire detection algorithms.
