Expertise
Active Space Technologies is specialized in thermal design, modeling, analysis, and testing of instruments, components and payloads for space missions as well as aeronautics and automotive components and structures. Furthermore, Active Space Technologies models and analyses satellites and launchers at system level.

Active Space Technologies provides a range of thermal services such as preliminary conceptual design, detailed design and analysis, and definition and supervision of thermal tests. Several activities have been developed for European companies, such as LusoSpace and EFACEC in Portugal, Bleuler-Baumer Mechanik in Switzerland, Galileo Avionica in Italy and for the European Space Agency. Active Space Technologies has also provided services for European R&D institutions such as the Universities of Munich and Stuttgart in Germany, and Patras in Greece.

Active Space Technologies has extensive knowledge on electronic space instruments and on payload design for extreme harsh thermal environments such as, for instance, that experienced on planet Mercury.
 

"Lumped Parameter" Method
 

Finite Element Method

Services
• thermal design and modeling
• conversion of thermal models between ESARAD,    Thermica, Trasys, etc.
• theoretical thermal analysis (conformity with ECSS)
• steady-state and transient thermal models
• validation of thermal mathematical models
• requirements definition and interface documentation
• selection of materials: thermal/optical properties,    off-gassing, etc.
• consulting in thermal design
• uncertainty analysis
• model node reduction
• experimental thermal analysis (thermal balance and    cycle vacuum tests)
• correlation between theoretical results and    experimental data
• consulting in thermal software
• radiation analysis

Thermal analysis
In Thermal Analysis one can use the finite element or the "lumped parameter" method. Active Space Technologies has expertise in both methods. The software used by Active Space Technologies for detailed Thermal Analysis are the European Space Agency's standard software: ESARAD and ESATAN. For preliminary designs ThermXL might also be used. Active Space Technologies also uses Thermica, SINDA, and TRASYS.