The Abengoa Aeroespace division has multi-technical skills to design, manufacture and test power distribution systems and monitoring and control electronic systems for aerospace, defence and scientific sectors.
Based in Madrid (Spain), we have in-house design, development, manufacturing and verification capabilities and facilities for our products range:
- Requirements specification.
- Architecture design and analysis.
- Electrical, electronics and thermomechanical detail design.
- Embedded and application SW specification coding and integration.
- Harness engineering.
- Budget and compliance assessment.
- Manufacturing and integration.
- Testing.
- Spacecraft/Launcher/Military vehicle or facility AIT/AIV operation assistance.
- EGSE (Electrical Ground Support
The main products are
- Space EGSE and SCOE: Power systems and TM/TC & I/O - Data handling systems (DHS), including the design of dedicated electronics for Interface Modules with the Device Under Test at high integration scale (≈1000 IFs in a 36U rack), dedicated SW applications and EGSE accessories such as external harness, break out boxes, LISNs, etc.
- Operational Electronic systems for power distribution, monitoring and control for Defence and Scientific applications, Qualified for DefStand and MIL-STD standards with functional, mechanical, thermal tests, Altitude, Rapid depressurization, Salt Corrosion, IP65 and EMC.
Projects:
- Space EGSE & SCOE:
- ExoMars IO Tester for the on-borad computer (RUAG).
- MTG PCDU UT (Airbus DS).
- Ariane 5 Sequential electronics UT (Airbus DS).
- Ariane 6 Centralized Multifunctional Unit UTs (Airbus DS).
- QUANTUM RX Antenna and GEO-SCAU Unit EGSEs (Airbus DS).
- Ariane 6 Pyro Functional Unit UTs (Airbus DS).
- VEGA-C UCEMC ATE (AVIO).
- VEGA-C Multifunctional Unit MKII UTs (Airbus DS).
- VEGA-C Switching Boxes (AVIO).
- VEGA-C GIM Simulator (Airbus DS).
- Operational electronic systems for Defense and scientific applications:
- ALMA Radiotelescope Band-1 and Band-5 electronics (ESO & ASIAA).
- Power Distribution Unit (PDB) for military vehicles (General Dynamics).
- R&D activities:
- RP ‘Loop Heat Pipe Technology for Solar-Dynamic Energy Conversion’ (European Space Agency – ESA).
- ESA - TRP ‘Environmentally Friendly Hydrogen Production’ (European Space Agency – ESA).
- ESA – GSP ‘Terrestrial &Space Energy Technology Roadmap Analysis’ (European Space Agency – ESA).
- ESA – TRP ‘Biodegradable Materials for Launcher Systems’ (European Space Agency – ESA).
- ICU for CEPHEUS. ‘Experimental Fuel Cell PayLoad’ (CDTI).
