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AST is leader in high performant and miniaturized flow control components and units for space applications. Our devices use fluid SMD technology to reduce system size and mass and to allow series production.
About AST - AST Advanced Space Technologies
Founded in 2010, AST invested in technologies and processes for highly performant and miniaturized flow control components and units for space applications. AST’s products use fluid SMD technology to reduce system size and mass and to allow series production.
Products - AST Advanced Space Technologies
AST offers a family of miniaturized flow control units (μFCU) with different flow capabilities ranging from 0.1 mg/s F.S. for micro thruster up to 10 mg/s F.S. for high power HETs. The flow range is determined by internal passive flow resistors which allows …
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Product Design Concepts, Customization and Production. Propellant Management Units for Electric Propulsion Thrusters in Series Production and in Update for New Applications [SP2022_244]
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Series Production at AST. Leading in compact pressure and flow control units for space applications. AST has developed production processes of fluid control components for space applications that allow efficient production of series products. Visit and learn more.
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Currently, serial production for one megaconstellations includes the production of units for around 100 - 1000 satellites per year. Manufacturing of this amount in a production line enters a tipping point from optimized manual production to part automation.
AST Advanced Space Technologies GmbH developed a 47 mN cold gas thruster for fine point missions. A precise pointing control requires an agile actuator with short reaction time and small impulse bits.
AST's High-Pressure Flow Controller (HP-FCU) can be used to provide a constant massflow to one or two devices in the low-pressure section. For that, the HP-FCU combines the functions of a two-stage pressure regulator and flow controller in one unit.
Two Cold Gas Thruster (CGT) designs are available at AST to serve for pressure regulated and unregulated systems onboard spacecrafts. In regulated systems, a low-pressure Cold Gas Thruster (LP-CGT) can be operated at constant pressure conditions and therefore provide predictable and repeatable thrust performance.