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Astro AerospaceProducts and Capabilities
Since 1958 Astro Aerospace has helped enable complex missions to Earth’s orbit, Mars, and beyond with innovative deployable space
structures and mechanisms. Astro Aerospace products have been successfully deployed on hundreds of flights with zero failures. Our 100 percent success rate and extensive space flight heritage is a testament to our commitment to quality and reliability while maintaining affordability for our customers.
AstroMesh ®The AstroMesh® furlable mesh antenna reflector technology is the most advanced and reliable large aperture deployable reflector available today. Apertures can range from 3 to 50 meters in diameter, covering radio frequencies UHF to beyond Ka-band. The AstroMesh performance record is unmatched with all of its reflectors deploying successfully on-orbit without incident or failure.
Telescopic BoomsExtremely light with compact packaging, the Astro telescopic boom provides high performance and flexibility over a wide range of lengths and stiffness. In addition, the design incorporates a staged deployment feature and retractability for ground testing and specialized on-orbit applications. Flight qualified hardware of 100-ft length has been produced that
demonstrates high stiffness and strength capability in a low-weight package.
Extendable Support StructuresThe Astro extendable support structures are deployable deep truss structures that stow in very volume-efficient packages. They have been successfully used on SEASAT and RADARSAT 1 to deploy and support large, high- accuracy planar structures for synthetic aperture radar antennas. The scalable AstroFold truss is designed to package and support an ESA radar of up to 300 meters in length in available launch vehicles.
STEM™The Storable Tubular Extendable Member (STEM™) is a unique product with 40 years of space flight heritage including programs such as Voyager, GPS IIR, Hubble Space Telescope and Mars Pathfinder. These products are available as high force actuators (up to 150 lbs of force), simple antenna STEM mechanism or as interlocked BI-STEM, which provides improved torsional rigidity and allows longer deployed lengths. STEM has been produced from 1/2 inch to 2 inch diameters and manufactured in beryllium copper for antenna elements and stainless steel for structural applications.Astro’s 100 percent success rate on flight units and continuing commitment to high quality means reliable space deployable products for your program.
For more information, please contact:Northrop Grumman Aerospace SystemsAstro Aerospace6384 Via Real, Carpinteria, CA 93103Edward [email protected] [email protected]
Integration and Assembly Facilities• 200 ft x 100 ft Level II clean room • 52 ft working ceiling height• 40 ft x 30 ft Level II clean room• 60 ft x 15 ft Level 1 clean room (class 100,000)
Test Facilities• 60 ft horizontal thermal chamber• Modular thermal chamber• Multiple small chambers• Large scale testing• Reconfigurable chambers at Astro – thermal only• Facilities at Space Park for thermal vacuum testing• L-Band PIM testing up to 14m diameter
Test and Manufacturing Equipment• MakerBot 3D Printer• Mills, lathes, surface grinders, etc.• Precision 18 ft x 6 ft optical assembly tables• Laminar flow clean benches• 60 ft precision laser reflectometer • Precision FARO laser tracker• Wild T2002 Theodolite 4-head alignment system• Mitutoyo Bright A916 CMM (4 ft x 8 ft)• Mitutoyo 24 in. x 24 in. CMM• V-Stars videogrammetry • Load testing on 10,000-lb SATEC machine
Deployment Testing• 60-ft linear deployment rail• Two 12m x 14m elliptical deployment rigs• 6m deployment rig
www.northropgrumman.com/astro© 2014 Northrop Grumman Systems CorporationPrinted in USACarpinteria14-2751• AS • 10/17 • 61590
