Products

Astro Aerospace specializes in a diverse array of products from reflectors to antennas to extendible and foldable structures.

AstroMast®

The AstroMast® is a versatile product space proven with more than 50 successful deployments on programs such as MILSTAR, DMSP, Olympus, Mars Odyssey, GOES, and INSAT.

Extendible Support Structure (ESS)

These deployable deep truss structures have been used on SEASAT and RADARSAT 1 successfully to deploy and support large, high accuracy planar structures for synthetic aperture radar antennas.

Foldable Flattenable Tube (FFT)

The innovative Foldable Flattenable Tube™ (FFT) enables very lightweight booms and antennas that deploy passively and package in very small volumes.

Astro provided three nine-meter flight reflector assemblies for the Inmarsat 4 program to Astrium. This new Inmarsat constellation of satellites will support the new Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN), scheduled to enter service in 2005 to deliver Internet and intranet content and solutions, video-on-demand, videoconferencing, fax, e-mail, phone and LAN access at speeds up to 432kbit/s almost anywhere in the world.

MBSAT Program

Astro designed and built a 12-meter deployable mesh reflector to SS/L for the MBASAT program.

Mobile Transporter

The Mobile Transporter is an example of Astro’s systems capability.

STEM

The Storable Tubular Extendable Member (STEM™) is a unique product with over 30 years of space flight heritage including programs such as Voyager, GPS IIR, Hubble Space Telescope and Mars Pathfinder.

Telescopic Boom

The Astro Telescopic Boom provides high performance and flexibility over a wide range of lengths and stiffnesses.

Thuraya 12 Meter AstroMesh Reflector

Thuraya, the satellite-based regional mobile communications system built by Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS) and Hughes Network Systems (HNS) for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company of United Arab Emirates (UAE), began launching commercial service to more than 20 countries in 2001.