Services
Based on the European Cooperation on Space Standardization ECSS HPS also offers capacities to external customers. Highly qualified personnel from Portugal and/or Germany supports customers either directly at their sites or in the frame of individually defined working packages, like:
Project management:
Compensating for staff shortage and/or missing experiences in specific fields of space business/processes of companies and/or institutions (reference examples: payloaddummies on Ariane 5, development of material hybrids for space applications).
Development and Engineering:
- General engineering from study-level to flight hardware (mechanical, thermal, antenna technologies)
- Special space engineering tasks (reference examples: cover structure mechanical design phase C/D for EnMap, design and analysis of satellite parts for phase B for Heinrich Hertz, structural analysis for instruments for ISS)
- Engineering for terrestial applications (reference examples: components for ESOtelescope, HAI-research facility in France)
Material characterization:
In the field of material characterization for space applications HPS offers management and coordination capacities including analysis of testing results.
MAIT-tasks:
- coordination and realization of manufacturing tasks integration service regarding structures (reference example: HPS Portugal integration support for EUCLID-sunshield)
- integration services regarding MLI with Portugese and/or German personnel, depending on integration location, flexible, day and night
In addition HPS offers trainings and technology transfer in the area of reflector antennas and CFRP.
Project Management
Features:
- Project Management for technology- or product-developments
- Management of test and integration campaigns
- Quality-assurance
- Subcontractor-/supplier-management
- Requirement and interface management
- Document management
- Management of technical workshops
- Customers: academia, institutes, agencies, industry
Engineering & Development
Features:
- Systems engineering
- Mechanical Design
- Structural Analysis
- Thermal Design & Analysis
- Thermo-elastic Analysis
- Vibro-acoustic Analysis
- Kinematic Analysis
- RF Design & Analysis
- Thermal protection engineering
- Test prediction and correlation
Material Characterisation
Features:
- Definition of test plans and procedures
- Selection of most suitable test institutes or test houses, or HPS internal
- Properties: mechanical, electrical, thermal, thermo-elastic, dynamic, acoustic, RF, electro-magnetic, radiation
- Characterisation on material- sample- or breadboard level
- Evaluation of test results
- Reporting, documentation
Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration, Test (MAIT)
Features:
- Manufacturing of parts and subassemblies (with partner compenies in Germany or Portugal)
- Assembly and alignment of subsystems
- Integration as support for the Customer on site
- Integration of own MLI onto flight hardware
- Product testing with partner test houses like IABG, SGS or ESTEC
- Vibration, shock, acoustic, thermal, thermo-elastic distortion, RF, PIM, EMC, optical measurements