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L’Garde Inc aims to be a world leader in the development of inflatable and deployable structures for terrestrial and space applications.  

L’Garde was founded in 1971 in Orange County, CA to support ballistic missile defense through the development and manufacture of inflatable targets and decoy systems.  Since that time L’Garde has developed a wealth of knowledge about deployable space systems that include:

• targets and countermeasures,
• deployable space antennas,
• in-space propulsion,
• deployable space structures,
• and deployable terrestrial systems.

The AstroMast® is a self-deploying structure for spacecraft. It is a versatile product space proven with more than 50 successful deployments on programs such as MILSTAR, DMSP, Olympus, Mars Odyssey, GOES, and INSAT. It provides high performance in a coilable longeron mast and is available in a variety of sizes and configurations to suit your specific program needs.

The AstroMast is an extremely stiff and lightweight structure that can be manufactured in deployed diameters from 15 to 75 centimeters and as low as six kilograms mass.

Organisation: Astro Aerospace

Astro Aerospace is a business venture of Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.

Since 1958, Astro Aerospace has been creating technologies used in space deployable structures. Astro Aerospace, is located in the USA, in Carpinteria and Goleta, California. Astro Aerospace specializes in a diverse array of products from reflectors to antennas to extendible and foldable structures.