When you work in an highly regulated environment like the #spaceindustry it is very important to keep the spirits up despite the documentation grind. At Berlin Space Technologies GmbH we are helping the mood by automating many of the tedious tasks and it is evidently…
In below picture you see one of the first wheels for a large batch (tens of devices) of reaction wheels in the last stages of assembly. Question: what to do if motors and bearings don’t like vacuum? One route is to use special vacuum proof…
The thermal balance of a #satellite is a delicate thing. Especially in ground tests high power devices such as this EWC-28 from SYRLINKS can easily overheat during ground tests. A simple solution to keep the cool is to strap a big block of metal to…
What do you think is missing in this picture? Right, the test equipment of Berlin Space Technologies GmbH is fully automated and except for the set up does not need any human interaction. In this picture you can see our thermal vacuum chamber during an…
The picture shows the QM of the 1st generation of our #battery system for our LEOS #satellites during manufacturing in 2014. Back then each of the 6 strings took six weeks to manufacture. Since then we have improved our procedures and for the second generation…
Training of new workforce is an important step for any growing company. It has been proven effective to use teams of two. In addition to this our electronic work instruction system is easily accessible (organised via gitlab). What you can see here is the manual…
It has been a while, today we are looking onto an important step in making our reaction wheels. #qualityengineering, #madeingermany, #germantechnology , #newspace, #berlinstartup
Last week on #factoryfriday we received another large shaker for #factory in #ahmedabad. It will allow us to test our satellites that have been fabricated under #makeinindia. Big shout out to our partners from AZISTA INDUSTRIES PRIVATE LIMITED who we are building our factory (Azista…
In all traditional #space companies engineers manually do many hours of test for #qualityassurance. This is however not sustainable for the #henryfordmoment. Therefore, Berlin Space Technologies GmbH is heavily invested in automatic testing.
Before we selected the cell type for our satellite battery system we ran extensive tests. Here you can see the setup in which we did the equivalent of 5 year LEO during a 15 month test in vacuum.