Admatis has more than 10 years of experience developing radiators for satellite payloads and platforms. The company delivered passive instrument- and harness radiators for the Sentinel-2A and 2B satellites launched in 2015 and 2017. Admatis was the subcontractor of ASTRIUM (now AIRBUS) responsible for development, manufacturing and structural testing. Several procedures have been space qualified during this project such as CAD design, structural and thermal analysis, machining, conversion coating, white painting, assembly, cleaning and vibration testing. Due to successful project implementation, Admatis was contracted by AIRBUS to deliver the third and fourth flight set of metallic mechanical and thermal hardware (MMTH) to be integrated to Sentinel-2C and 2D spacecraft between 2015 and 2017.

Admatis joined the CHEOPS industrial consortium led by the University of Bern in 2016. Our company delivered FPA and FEE radiators for the scientific instrument of the CHEOPS satellite launched in 2019. Admatis’ responsibility was the design, manufacturing and verification of radiators Structural Thermal Model (STM) and Flight Models (FM). Design activity included thermal and structural FE analysis to optimize mechanical and thermal properties. The raw material of radiators is aluminium alloy, baseline machining processes are CNC milling and turning. As a new element, SSM gluing technology was developed since the qualified white painting was not suitable as the thermo-optical coating due to the wide operational temperature range. All surface treatment activities including SSM bonding 2216 have been performed at Admatis’ premises.