Airborne Space is leading the way in the engineering and manufacturing of composite panels for satellites. Through industrialisation, digitalised automation and applying different production process technologies, we are making spacecraft components more affordable for our clients. This made Airborne market leader in the manufacturing of solar-array substrate panels in Europe.
Airborne Aeronautics is AS 9100D (technically equivalent to EN 9100:2018 and JISQ 9100:2016) approved and as such has all the necessary production and quality systems in place for component manufacture.
Affordable composite structures for (new)space
The commercial newspace market requires disruptive solutions, in terms of price level, production capacity as well as reliability. With over 100 highly qualified employees we are committed to support our customers with affordable composite spacecraft structures. For this, we are developing automated production lines for satellite sandwich panels.
Our main focus
- State-of-the-art solar-array substrates
- Affordable panels for mega-constellations
- Affordable structures for small launchers
How does it work?
Our clients
We focus on highly specialised companies such as satellite solar-array integrators, satellite structure integrators, small launcher integrators and mega-constellation primes. To this date we delivered more than 200 sandwich panels for satellites such as Galileo FOC, Sentinel 1 and 2, EarthCare, EDRS- C, Astrobus. We have 50 more under contract, including Jason-CS / Sentinel 6, JUICE and MetOp-SG. Our current customers include Airbus Defence and Space, SpaceTech and Thales Alenia Space.
Our offerings
Airborne is focussed on making composites affordable for Space. Our proposition offers a disruption in price and production volume of panels by applying smart automation, which means: low CAPEX, flexible, scalable and transferable robotic solutions. By co-engineering and close cooperation, we achieve next generation, design-to-cost solutions with our customers. Our current offerings for Space consist of the following solutions:
Substrate panels
Airborne has delivered over 250 state-of-the-art solar-array substrates to several paramount European satellites.
Panels for mega-constellations
Since the satellite market is in transition, in terms of commercialisation and moving towards more small satellites, Airborne is developing and qualifying affordable substrate panels for mega-constellations. Our proposition offers a disruption in price and production volume of panels.
Structure panels
Airborne is offering composite sandwich panels for satellite structures, based on our strong capabilities and space qualified materials, processes and facility.
NewSpace market
For the NewSpace market, we offer our affordable panel proposition for small-sats and mega-constellations. For the many panel interfaces, we apply a smart process for the assembly of the metallic inserts.
Small launchers
The NewSpace market is demanding new and dedicated launcher solutions for the deployment, servicing and replacement of small-sat mega-constellations. Airborne is proud manufacturing partner in SMILE.
Smart automation
We develop affordable composite structures for small launchers. For the manufacturing we apply smart automation, which means: low CAPEX, flexible, scalable and transferable robotic solutions.
Contact me
Sandor Woldendorp – BU Director Aerospace Airborne
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