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SAFRAN Pyroalliance is a European producer of energetic equipment: design, production and marketing of a wide range of equipment to meet the demanding specifications of aerospace, defense and industry. These energetic equipments perform a number of critical functions, including launch, propulsion, flight control and range safety.

SAFRAN Pyroalliance is a subsidiary of Herakles (Safran group).

It has built up expertise in the technologies needed to convert energy from an energetic material (grain, propellant, explosive) into a function or combination of functions. These functions generally involve a mechanical action (push, pull, inflate, cut, release, etc.), or the transmission of a command (ignite, separate, supply a fluid, generate a gas or thrust). A complete function can be performed by coupling different assemblies (ignition and safety, command transmission, terminal functions such as ignition or a mechanical action).

Pyrotechnic technologies offer a number of advantages over conventional electromechanical, pneumatic or hydraulic systems:

• Significant energy developed in a controlled time (from less than a millisecond to several seconds).
• Low triggering energy (mechanical or electric).
• Smaller and lighter.
• Very high reliability, security and availability.
• Little or no maintenance over lifetime.
• Operating time compatible with need for simultaneous or synchronized requirements.
• Robust resistance to external hazards (vibration, shock, electrostatic discharge, electromagnetic, thermal, etc.).

Shapes Aerospace specializes in fabrication and machining of complex, high precision component parts, assemblies and tooling for aerospace, aircraft, turbine, medical and defense: from miniature parts for satellites and missiles, to mid-size components for aircraft engine and ground turbine applications to large assemblies and tooling for composites and aerospace ground support.

Bertin Technologies develop activities in aerospace research & development, having provided valuable input in the development programmes of all of the leading European players in this field, including CNES, ESA, EADS, Thales and Safran.

Thanks to its multidisciplinary range of competencies (thermal engineering, mechanical engineering, physical modelling, ergonomics, precision electronics), Bertin Technologies' activities are all encompassing, ranging from consulting, studies and expertise (technology transfer, feasibility studies, functional analysis, workspace layout, risk management, human factor analysis, etc.) to the design and delivery of high-tech equipment (onboard electronics, optical and thermal equipment, image processing, ground support equipment, heavy load transport).

ND SatCom is a supplier of satellite communication equipment systems and solutions to support customers with critical operations.

ND SatCom is headquartered in the South of Germany, at Immenstaad. With regional sales and support entities in Europe, USA, Middle East and China, ND SatCom is capable of servicing key satellite communication markets.

ND SatCom and Astrium: ND SatCom is an affiliate of Astrium, an EADS company. 

DA-Design Oy was founded in 1995, specialising in electronics and software engineering. Since then company has generated a wide competence in embedded systems related software, electronics, mechanic, RF and microwave engineering.

Space Business became a part of DA-Design in 2007 with the merging of DA-Design & Ylinen. DA-Design carries out projects as a subcontractor for major space companies and European Space Agency ESA. Typically these projects include system and equipment design, manufacturing and testing. DA-Design makes subsystems into satellites and performs technology development for the future satellites.

New facilities enable space quality equipment manufacturing for both electrical and mechanical parts. Assembly and testing is done in a purpose built clean room facility. Measurements are mainly carried out in DA-Design in-house facilities with a possibility to test in a nominal space environment, vacuum. The clean room area contains all needed measurement equipment and simulation of space vacuum and temperatures down to +4 ˚K.

Space Micro Inc specializes in payload and communications equipment for satellites.

Space Micro is proposing technologies that enable Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronic devices to be deployed in space. Radiation in space is damaging to electronics. Space Micro has patents for mitigating radiation effects on state-of-art commercial electronics. Space Micro offers space-qualified radiation hardened microelectronics, from radiation hardened by design (RHBD) technologies to space rated single board computers (RH SBC) and radios. Space Micro offers a fast space radiation hardened line of Proton™ Series RH computers to include the Proton200k™ DSP-based, Proton300k™ FPGA and Proton400k-L™ Multi-Core PowerPC-based processors. In addition to satellite computers, Space Micro offers satellite communications equipments to include compact µSDR™ radiation hardened software defined radio, µSGLS™ Space-Ground Link System, µSTDN ™, µX-Band ™ and µKa-Band ™ transmitters, transponders and Solid State Power Amplifiers (RH SSPA). Other Space Micro products include ProtonX-Box™ Avionics Suite, IPC5000™ Image Processing System, SEMS™ Space Weather Sensor Suite and Divert Attitude Control System (RH DACS). Other Space Micro developed technologies include TTMR™ & Patented (Time Triple Modular Redundancy) and H-CORE™ & Patented “Watch Dog” circuitry for Single Events Functional Interrupt (SEFI) space radiation mitigation. Technologies currently under development include DDR2 SDRAM and Monolithic RH Flash memories for advanced space processors. Space Micro is an employee-owned company based in San Diego, Calif., USA.

In addition to radiationed hardened electronics, Space Micro also designs novel materials and non-destructive evaluation techniques in the Advanced Materials Division. 

Clients include NASA, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).