Payload Adapters can support any combination of deployment hardware, and can be adapted to fit your mission requirements. From design to verification to launch, hardware meets all SpaceX requirements whether you are launching a 0.25U cubesat or a 500 kg microsat. Rideshare payload adapters maximize your value per mass and volume when launching.

Our expertise include:

• Design Engineering

• Structures Engineering

• Interfacing with SpaceX, launch aggregators and satellite manufacturers engineering teams

• Supply Chain Management

• Mechanical Subsystem Delivery

We design, size, manufacture (with partners), test, and supply Sandwich panels and their assemblies. Space Structures supplies panels with the following material combinations:

Aluminium facesheets - aluminium honeycomb core

GFRP facesheets - aluminium honeycomb core

CFRP facesheets - aluminium honeycomb core

CFRP facesheets - CFRP honeycomb core

Optionally we also offer NOMEX cores.

For interfaces, inserts can be included with the following parameters:

Aluminium, titanium, INVAR or CFRP material

Floating, face-to-face, edge or block type

Through-holes or threads (if required also including thread locking)

Hybrid Struts

Hybrid Struts consist of composite material tubes and metallic fittings-

Our turnkey solution with the best value for the money.

Material selection and layup design according to the application and desired properties.

Tubes in filament winding, thermoplastic or prepreg technology.

Circular, rectangular or other cross section geometries.

Metallic fittings (aluminium, titanium, invar, or others).

Bonded and riveted joints qualified across a wide temperature & load range.

With threads, close-tolerance holes, bearings or other features on demand.

Surface treatment, special threads (e.g. Helicoil) and heat treatment of the metal parts on demand.

Full CFRP Struts: integral single CFRP piece with continuous fibres including the fittings.

• Maximum lightweight

• Dimensionally stable . No thermal expansion, insensitive to thermal cycling

• Special DoubleZero variant with zero CTE and CME

• Reduction of number of parts

• Variety of interfaces

We can create hollow structures with continuous carbon fibres and only tiny openings - a unique combination.

Software product based on the industry standards ECSS-HB-32-23 and VDI-2230. It is the ONLY software validated by the European Space Agency (ESA).

• User friendly graphical user interface

• Simple handling of large datasets

  Multiple bolt groups, Excel interface, thousands of joints in one session.

• Modular structure

  Only pay for the features you actually need!

• Output for fracture analysis

  Output for subsequent fracture analysis can be created in NASGRO format.

• Direct import of FEA results

  NASTRAN .PCH files and plain CSV formats. Statics, sine and random loads. Thousands of loadcases are processed simultaneously in only a few seconds.

• Database functionality

  All data for bolts, nuts, inserts, material and friction coefficients configured and easily accessible. Database comes with public information. Custom information can be added by the user.

SpaceVibe

Space industry tool to assess the sine and random vibrations analysis and test data.

Main Features

• Visualize, interpolate, scale and notch sine and random vibrations responses (transfer functions, harmonics and random vibrations)

• Compare vibration responses (both predicted or measured) against the allowable levels (QSL, sine, PSD and RRS)

• Overlay plots (test-vs-prediction, pre/post-resonance search)

• Quick notch definition for sine and random vibrations

• Sensor orientation check

• Supports Nastran punch (PCH), universal 58 (UNV), Excel (XLSX) and comma separated files (CSV)

• Minimalistic, user friendly and fast interface (no more VBA)

• Made specifically for space sector (ECSS-E-HB-32-26, NASA-HDBK-7004)

• Super fast (parsing hundreds of channels in seconds)

High-performance satellite and launcher structures, optical payload structures and their sub-assemblies

The large majority of such projects are Build-to-Spec, i.e. Space Structures elaborates the whole project based on a specification as input and takes the responsibility for the design and performance up until verification testing is completed. We have all required key processes (bolting, riveting, bonding, alignment and measurement) and facilities for precision assembly in-house.

Space applications are our core competence and passion. But also in other industries our know-how and experience can make the difference. We also support you in the frame of non-routine tasks and in shortage of covering human resources in the form of engineering service consulting.

For the development of space products system engineering know-how is a key factor for successful project implementation.

Our extensive design engineering know-how and experience helps designing complex parts and assemblies for extreme applications.

Lightweight structures, special structures and complex details often require more than a standard analysis. This is where our special structural analysis know-how comes in. FEA, vibration, thermo-elastic, shock, fatigue, fracture control are all subjects we take care of.

Thermal control of space products is an extreme challenge. Our experience helps to find a thermal design that works.

Never fail a test again: with the help of our test engineering services.

Need to get launch approval for your satellite from the mechanical perspective? We create the required condensed Craig-Bampton models, help evaluate CLA results and get your baby flight approved.

SpaceHive - a modular structure family system for mounting the complete rideshare launch stack on small to medium size launchers.

Space Structures' Structural Design and Analysis Services are built on the company's expertise in FEA, vibration, thermo-elastic, shock, fatigue, fracture control, and many more services.

• Space System Engineering

• CAD Design

• Structure Engineering

• Fatigue & Fracture Control

• Test Engineering

• Model Condensation & Coupled Load Analysis (CLA)

Custom manufacturing of enclosures, housings, chassis for electronic units

Short lead times, competitive pricing

Thermo-optical surface treatments

Special thermal control features, e.g. “fingers”, heat straps, or heat pipes