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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]January 2024[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Servicing Europe\u00b4s ambitions in space from Romania<\/strong><\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]In less than a blink of an eye, it will be a full decade that Romania\u00b4s leading space-SME \u201cHigh Performance Structures Inovatie si Desvoltare S.R.L.\u201d will look back to the beginnings of the company\u00b4s history in 2016, when it opened its office in Bucharest. Founded to meet the needs for additional capacities of HPS Munich, HPS RO quickly developed ttowards becoming one of the most renowned full-service spacetech-companies from ESA-member states in the Eastern Europe.
\nJust one question to managing director Astrid Draguleanu:<\/p>\n

From the very beginnings and through the years, you have been in the position to significantly participate in shaping and guiding the company\u00b4s development. From your perspective, which factors are the ones that keep pushing HPS forward on the road of success?<\/em>
\nFrom our point of view, there are three rock solid pillars the company\u00b4s success rests on.
\nNumber one: COMPETENCE<\/strong>. HPS RO is an engineering company, with driven top engineers trained in the sectors of engineering, development, assembly, secondary and tertiary structures, thermal and RF-components, mechanical ground support equipments. In addition, we have managed to combine forces with commercial and institutional suppliers and partners, contributing competencies in special segments like precision manufacturing, welding, process verification, and assembly tests. So when one\u00b4s looking for a onestop source of competence in Romania and ESA\u00b4s Eastern European presence as a whole, they will sure find it in Bucharest.<\/p>\n

Number two: QUALITY<\/strong>. In the Space Industry, quality is attributed to those who manage to comply to the specific standards and building up an immaculate heritage of successful steps on the ladder to the top. HPS RO proved that it has taken those steps, and done it with at an amazing pace: In the past eight years we have contributed to a total of twelve Space Missions so far. To get an idea of what\u00b4s behind that, let us just take a more detailed look at the contributions we\u00b4ve made in the area of mechanical ground handling and support equipment, MGSE:<\/p>\n

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  • Purge Equipment for the JUICE Spacecraft on behalf of Airbus Germany<\/li>\n
  • Satellite Vertical Integration Stand for the Biomass-Mission, Airbus U.K.<\/li>\n
  • Instrument & Optical Bench Lfting Frames, Copernicus Chime Mission, OHB<\/li>\n
  • Instrument Turntable Support Stand and Instrument Turntable, Instrument Alignment Trolley, Instrument Lifting Device, Multipurpose Adapter, Vibration Test Adapter, Vertical Integration Stand, Instrument Support Structure and Instrument Mass Dummy for the METOP mission, Airbus Germany<\/li>\n
  • Satellite Hoisting Device, transport containers, various adaptors \u2013 in total 14 MGSE-assemblies for Copernicus CIMR by HPS Germany.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Number three: CAPACITY<\/strong>. From the very beginning, it has been absolutely clear to all of us that HPS RO has a great future, by focusing on its character as a company with high professional level and not afraid of hard work. That is why building and keeping up capacities is yet another pillar we use. Take, for example, the fact that, before having even one contract to justify the expenditures, we started out from the beginning with production facilities, giving room the even the most ambitious dreams of development. And it proved to be the golden path to go: Apart from servicing all current needs of customers, we were most happy to have the capacities for starting out the series production of the HPS Satellite Dragsail product family \u201cADEO\u201d, when the winds of change reached politics and deorbit technology became a legal prerequisite to let a satellite go into space to begin with. Of course, we apply this philosophy of \u201cgrowth follows capacity\u201d also to our HR-management. Today we employ a total of 20 engineers in Bucharest, growing in numbers at top speed. We are convinced that the reason for the whole success story is the delicate balance we have learned to keep in our magical triangle of COMPETENCE, QUALITY, and CAPACITY.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”7564″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Munich-based space-tech company HPS had this development in mind more than ten years ago, when no one else was really thinking about ways to avoid space debris. With great support from the space agencies ESA and DLR, the DLR institutes in Bremen and Braunschweig, the companies DSI, Bremen, and formerly HTS, Coswig, plus a seven-digit-investment of HPS, the company\u00b4s highly committed young team of experts has created an entire product family under the generic name ADEO, from the smallest versions ADEO-P (Pico), ADEO-C (Cube) and ADEO-N(Nano), ADEO-M (Medium) and the latest member of the group, ADEO-L (Large). The development master plan not only extends even further to possible ADEO variants with up to 100 square meters of braking surface, but also leaves enough room for derivatives with completely different applications, such as the monitoring of space debris smaller than1 cm directly in space.<\/p>\n

    In its largest flight-ready version to date, L1, ADEO has a take-off weight of 10 kg at dimensions of 43 cm x 43 cm x 25 cm; in contrast to the smaller versions, this unit also requires its own power supply for motor-controlled deployment of the masts and sails. ADEO-L1 generally fits perfectly on satellites up to the 1,500 kilo class.<\/p>\n

    In the first quarter of next year, ADEO-L1 will be integrated onto a satellite of the Belgian company Redwire for its first test flight at the end of 2024\/beginning of 2025 as part of a EU program, while the versions ADEO-N1 and ADEO-N2 have already passed their baptism of fire in space. Approaching the fiery finale is currently ADEO-N2, deployed in December 2022. Since then, it has already lowered its satellite from an orbital altitude of 510 km to 460 kilometers in only 12 months without the aid of any fuel or attitude control. Expected “arrival” in a completely burnt-up state: mid2025 – and thus even around five times faster than without sails and twice as fast as prescribed.<\/p>\n

    ADEO-L1 will master this path of final in-orbit verification just as safely, company boss Dr.-Ing. Ernst K. Pfeiffer is certain. As with the other versions, it will then go straight into series production for which the company has special production facilities at its Munich and Bucharest sites.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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