The industry day is positioned as a mere prelude to the formal open call for SPARK funding and the consequent TEB process. It will bring together relevant candidates for the SPARK funding with ESA, the LSIs and the general public. Its main objective is to promote information exchange among the interested parties (start-ups, universities, SMEs) […]

MoU of Space SMEs Aviosonic and HPS to join forces fighting space debris – right in time for Europe´s new constellation IRIS² (Munich-Milano, May 11 th , 2023). At testified TRL-9 and with solid flight heritage the sail system “ADEO” already is the leading device for quickly deorbiting almost all satellites, thus preventing spacecrafts after […]

Uncountable satellites and debris are orbiting our planet Earth. The number is still increasing. A visualisation is done by Professor Moriba Jah, Universität of Texas, named AstriaGraph. His page HERE and AstriaGraph   Point of contact: Associate Professor Moriba K. Jah Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Cockrell School of Engineering The University of […]

On December 15, 2022, at 12:10 UTC, the world’s unique ADEO braking sail from the German space technology company HPS GmbH, Munich, opened the chapter of sustainability for international spaceflight 500 kilometers above the Earth: as planned, on time and precisely, the sail attached to the ION SCV 003 satellite unfurled over an area of […]

For 16 months now, an ION satellite carrier of the Italian service provider for unmanned space transportation D-Orbit has been orbiting the Earth in low orbit. Launched by a Falcon 9 on June 30th 2021, it has only one last task after the mission launch of the high-tech passengers from eleven countries: to sail gently […]

Since the spectacular win of the €110 million contract in 2020 for the development and construction of an LDRS (Large Deployable Reflector Subsystem) by the SME consortium led by HPS, the project supporting to secure a sovereign European level of innovation has been running like on rails despite all its complexity. The confidence of the […]

Already in the heat of last summer, HPS in Munich was preparing for the third mission of the innovative space brake sail ADEO-N, which unfolds automatically at the end of the mission and drives “its” satellite into the atmosphere to burn up. This technology avoids the formation of new space debris already on the ground and finally […]

How does a raw part become a complex space product? Astrofein provides insights into its own space production. https://talent.berlin/magazin/berlinjobs/astro-und-feinwerktechnik-adlershof-gmbh Thank you to Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH & Talent Berlin for supporting us and this great video. For further information and visual impressions, please visit www.astrofein.com   Point of Contact Beate Kern, Assistent […]

CEO Reiner Strobel welcomes MdB Dr. Anna Christmann in her function as coordinator for aerospace of the German government when visiting Advanced Space Power Equipment GmbH (ASP) in Salem. During a tour at the company, it was demonstrated why ASP, as the most important German manufacturer of space power electronics, is involved in the European […]

Berlin, 23.06.2022. ASP presents the market launch of the new SPICA-virtus Propulsion Power Unit at ILA 2022. In order to provide an answer to the market requirements for a thruster-independent and technologically innovative PPU, we have used a high degree of digitalization and novel GaN components, says CEO Dr. Reiner Strobel: “The digital concept also […]

Above all, ASP presents its new product structure through the new website. The was created to provide customers with power electronics as flight hardware in the shortest possible time. ASP is the nation’s leading supplier of power electronics for spacecraft and launch vehicles. Located in the Lake Constance region – the German cradle of the […]

By 2025, Europe will have its own constellation of satellites to ensure sovereign capacity for both commercial and institutional communication channels. Fast Internet, autonomous mobility at sea, on ground and in the air, automatic exchange of information between technical installations, support for military and humanitarian actions, and other applications for public authorities, companies, and citizens […]

European Commission supports preparations with 1.4 million Euro By 2025, Europe will have its own constellation of satellites to ensure sovereign capacity for both commercial and institutional communication channels. Fast Internet, autonomous mobility at sea, on ground and in the air, automatic exchange of information between technical installations, support for military and humanitarian actions, and […]

ASP Equipment offers a new type of Propulsion Power Unit (ASP Spica-Virtus PPU product line) as a series product of a power supply for electric satellite propulsion systems. The aim is to meet customer requirements for quickly available electronic equipment in large quantities and attractive conditions in the new-space market segment. The coupling test carried […]

From 16th to 18th November 2021, Best-of-Space presents small and medium sized enterprizes at the B2B-fair SpaceTechExpo (STE) 2021 in Bremen. You are invited to meet us and the entrepreneurs at the group stand Q19 together with ESA SME office, ESA Solutions and SME4SPACE. Detail on the STE 2021 see HERE. COVID Safety regulations see […]

Dear Company, Following our previous communications regarding the survey on “Space activities of SMEs in Europe”, we would like to thank those who have already provided their reply (60 in total). The replies we have received so far will be used for the analysis, but in order to obtain the necessary sample size required to […]

SME4SPACE informs: ESA is offering the opportunity for payloads to ride on board the first return flight, and future flights, to low orbit of its reusable Space Rider. Applications should reach ESA by 30 November. Space Rider’s planned debut is in 2023. Launched on a Vega-C rocket, it will provide a laboratory in space for […]

In summer 2021, EC DEFIS called under reference number DEFIS/2021/OP/0005 for  6-months studies for New Space Solutions for Long-term Availability of Reliable, Secure, Cost Effective Space Based Connectivity. A budget of 2.8MEUR is available for two studies. With deadline September 29th, 2021 a total of 10 tenders was submitted. Tenderers are consortia with leaders of LSI […]

SPACE STRUCTURES GmbH from Germany, as prime contractor of an all-SME consortium, has been selected by Thales Alenia Space to develop, build and test the internal secondary structures for the International Habitation (I-HAB) Module of the international Lunar Gateway manned space station to orbit the Moon. The consortium includes four other SMEs: Romania-based HPS srl, […]

With the launch of the Heinrich Hertz satellite in 2023, Germany will once again be flying the black-red-golden flag in satellite telecommunications – twenty years after the DFS Kopernikus mission completed in 2002 – on the innovative “Small Geo” platform from OHB 36,000 kilometers above the earth. On board Heinrich Hertz are some 20 experiments […]

On Wednesday, June 30, at 21.31 hrs CEST a Falcon 9 by Space X took off to a transporter 2-mission from legendary spaceport Cape Canaveral, Florida. On board: Italian NewSpace company D-Orbit´s ION Satellite Carrier on its „Wild Ride“-mission with tech-passengers from 11 countries, among that HPS ADEO-N2, named „Show me your Wings“. ION was […]

The first defense mission of planet Earth against asteroid aggressors from space will be broadcasted live through an antenna in deep space built by Munich-based aerospace company HPS. It prevailed in two competitive preliminary design phase contracts within Europe. Experts are convinced that the HPS model offers the highest possible signal stability thanks to its […]

Space specialists close innovation gap for threatening situations In extreme cases, humans can do without many things for a certain period of time: clothing for months, depending on the weather, food for about three weeks and drinking water for up to three days. There is only one thing he really needs urgently and immediately: the […]

RUAG Space | Media Relations | Schaffhauserstrasse 580 | 8052 Zurich | Switzerland | www.ruag.com Media Release Zurich, July 14, 2021 Strategic Partnership Moves into the Next Round With the signing of the contract for the 5 th modification of the development and production contract (“Mod5) for the Atlas as well as Vulcan Centaur rocket […]

ESA, HPS GmbH and LSS GmbH have reached an important milestone in the development of the European Large Deployable Reflector or LDR. The team has demonstrated the automatic motorised deployment of the engineering model of the eight-metre wide antenna reflector. The design, build and testing of this full-size engineering model is a significant step forward […]

Gladly HPS announces with a new 20-minutes-movie the completion of the H2020-development „LEA-X5“, the 5m class European Large Deployable Reflector Subsystem (LDRS) operating in X-band. The film itself is of course showing recent environmental and deployment tests, but it is mainly about PEOPLE, who are space engineers and space enthusiasts, and what they can achieve […]

Fifteen companies – mostly SMEs – from seven countries and one goal: a deployable 5-meter X-band-antenna as a preliminary development for the CIMR project, developed under the European H2020 program (2017-2021). For the first time ever, such a complete subsystem (HPS) has now been successfully assembled in Europe from the reflector- (LSS) and arm- (HPS) […]

With the successful test of the Deployable Assembly Arm (DAA), which connects a Deployable Reflector Assembly (DRA) to the satellite, just completed at INEGI, the European LEA consortium led by HPS has cleared the next hurdle in the technical realization of Europe’s new antenna technology. The 5m long DAA consists of 3 hinge mechanisms and […]

upported by the ESA GSTP, STI today reached the next milestone with the start of the verification process of a 5-hinge-axes solar array deployment system, as will be used for the Copernicus expansion satellites, on a Zero-g robot (called “ZeroG”). Qualification is planned to be completed mid 2021. Solar array wings – state of the art Efficient […]

The purpose of the KOMPSAT (KOrean Multi Purpose SATellite) is to provide high-resolution pictures for the purpose of precise earth observation from a low polar earth orbit. The satellite is equipped with a very accurate optical imaging camera and a high-resolution infrared sensor which allows to observe fire, volcanic activity and urban thermal islands during […]

You find three more companies at Best-of-Space: we are proud to present to you: Engineering Minds Munich GmbH (EMM), Magson GmbH and Software Competitiveness International GmbH (SoftCom) We are lucky to have the start-ups EMM and SoftCom with us! Engineering Minds Munich GmbH is a payload development company and acts as system and technology supplier […]

It is official today, 02.12.2020: Europe is going to develop a new independent technology in the European space sector. Thales Alenia Space Italy has been selected by ESA and the European Commission as the Satellite Prime for the Copernicus mission CIMR contract. At the same time, HPS Germany, as leader of an SME-oriented consortium of […]

ESA and Thales Alenia Space Italy (TAS-I) authorize HPS to develop the large deployable reflector subsystem “LEA” for the Copernicus mission CIMR  It is official today, 02.12.2020: Europe is going to develop a new independent technology in the European space sector. Thales Alenia Space Italy has been selected by ESA and the European Commission as […]

Deployable 5-meter “LEA” antenna starts baptism of fire on the test stand Punctually three years after the decision of the EU, in November 2017, to place the development of the critical space technology of an antenna that can be deployed in space in the hands of an SME-consortium with 15 companies from seven member states […]

ESA reports on the activity of HPS in GSTP developing a deorbit-subsystem…

Freyer GmbH & Co. KG is a leading manufacturer of very difficult milled and turned parts (single parts and small batch series), complete assemblies and also additive manufactured parts for aerospace.

ASP Equipment delivers the Flight Model (PFM) of the EnMAP IPU to the instrument prime OHB-System AG in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany…

The „Feed Assembly” as an essential component in the RF signal transmit/receive-chain of the Ka-band North Beam Antenna “H2NBA” for the Heinrich Hertz Mission was successfully assembled in February 2020…

PLATO is an ambitious science mission within ESAs Cosmic Vision program. ASP-Equipment has been contracted by ESA for the development, manufacturing, assembly, integration and test of the PLATO Ancillary Electronic Units (AEU)…

The participation of German Space SMEs at SpaceTechExpo in Bremen is becoming a tradition. Like last time, the small and medium sized enterprizes have their own booth close to …

Experts of ESA, SME4SPACE and AKRK present experiences and challenges for SME in the session ” The Hard Road to the Stars: Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs in the European Space Business” at fair SpaceTechExpo in Bremen, Germany November 21st, 2019 13:00-14:00h.

Best of Space initiated an industry day at OHB, Bremen, September 25th, 2019. Thomas Hintze from ASP…

In the name of all members of our pan-European WeLEA-consortium we proudly present a video, documenting the successful road of the development of one of the most needed critical technologies in space: the Deployable Large European Antenna (LEA)…..

HPS hands over Euclid´s Flight Model of Antenna Reflector Assembly (ARA) to TAS-I in Rome Euclid, ESA´s ambitious mission to map geometry and development of the Dark Universe over the past 10 billion years from 2022 on has taken a big step forward: HPS delivered the ARA-flight model hardware to ESA´s prime TAS in Rome […]

No longer just a dream: Internet for everyone everywhere – Airbus OneWeb Satellites (AOS) is aiming for global broadband internet. The AOS mega constellation will consist of 900 small satellites. AOS selected SpaceTech to develop and deliver the 1800 solar array deployment mechanisms. …

Large deployable antenna reflectors are among the critical space technologies most urgently needed in Europe in order to drastically reduce the continent´s dependence on goodwill, knowhow, and supplies from the United States. …

Immenstaad, 27 September 2018: The German-French satellite MERLIN (Methane Remote Sensing LIDAR Mission) is a mission to observe the concentration of the greenhouse gas methane. In this cooperation between CNES and DLR, CNES signs responsible for the satellite bus, which is a Myriade Evolution, and DLR signs responsible for the instrument. The instrument on MERLIN […]

Immenstaad, 07 September 2018: The complex deployment work for ICARUS on ISS was conducted on August 15th. The Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the ICARUS antenna “demonstrator”- a large antenna assembly which consists of a transmit and multiple receive antennas.

CRN Management presents the portal of German Space SMEs www.best-of-space.de at the Industry Space Days 2018 of ESA in ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL from 11. to 12. September 2018. You are invited to meet us at booth K24, right next to the ESA-village to meet with experts form German Space Companies. Some German SMEs have a […]

ASP-Equipment GmbH, the largest independent SME for space products in Germany, has decided to take another major step of sustainable growth.
In autumn 2017 it was decided to acquire another 6.400 square meters of land directly next to the existing ASP-Equipment headquarters in Salem, in order to add…

On Friday 12 December 2017, the transport of the two GRACE-FO satellites and their launch adapter from IABG to Munich Airport was successfully completed. STI helped to transport…

After a long, thorough and positive evaluation process, the European Space Agency (ESA) has decided to procure SpaceBolt, the bolt analysis software of Space Structures GmbH and…

In June 2017 the ICARUS flight hardware was declared ready for hand-over to the ICARUS project cooperation Partners in Russia. After a series of …

ASPs sustainable growth is also visible in the increase of manufacturing resources. In the past 2 years ASP …

Quality first beyond borders Letterheads, websites, publications: The claim of the midsize European space company is everywhere: „HPS – The Team to Trust“. Since June 27th now, this claim is even officially backed by the award of the first certification according to the strict rules of the brandnew „DIN EN 9100:2016 Aviation, Space, and Defence […]

International engineering service provider FEV, headquartered in Aachen, has acquired the shares and business of etamax space GmbH. This was announced by the management of both companies. With the integration of the engineering service provider for secure software and secure systems, FEV also takes over all shares of ckc ag, which previously held 49.5 percent […]

Highly innovative Space SMEs from the Lake Constance region are struggling for funds, essential for their survival. The member of the Bundestag Lothar Riebsamen (CDU) visited local businesses and spoke to…

On May 12, 2016, SpaceTech and Airbus have reached an agreement on the contract for the RIME Antenna delivery for the ESA science mission JUICE (RIME = Radar for Icy Moon Exploration; JUICE = Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer). The STI proposal stands out for the smart and light-weight technical solution and its cost-benefit ratio. The […]

Even before the end of a strong year 2015 the top-management at the headquarters of the European HPS-group in Munich, Germany, had set the course towards expansion; it took just a few months…

HPS hands over Euclid´s Flight Model of Antenna Reflector Assembly (ARA) to TAS-I in Rome…

With the foundation of HPTEX GmbH in equal shares by the Bavarian companies HPS GmbH and Iprotex GmbH & Co KG, a company is being launched that no one else in the space industry has ever had on the cards before: …

Freyer GmbH & Co. KG is a leading manufacturer of very difficult milled and turned parts (single parts and small batch series), complete assemblies and also additive manufactured parts for aerospace.