Customers & Markets

SpaceTech has established itself as a recognized company for high quality products in the field of terrestrial environmental monitoring systems and spacecraft missions, systems and services. This is best expressed by the list of satisfied customers, domestically and world-wide.

German Aerospace Center (DLR):

In the course of the company’s history a fruitful and continuous cooperation with our domestic space customer has been established starting with SpaceTech’s role in the German Lunar Exploration Orbiter (LEO) mission in the phases 0 and A. SpaceTech successfully demonstrated the feasibility of lunar gravity and magnetic field measurements and provided a technical concept based on two small satellites flying in close configuration.
For the German in-orbit servicing demonstration mission DEOS SpaceTech signed responsible for the Phase A feasibility study performed under the aegis of DLR leading a team of small German companies and university institutes. To demonstrate the feasibility of the challenging mission goals SpaceTech developed an overall mission strategy, defined rendezvous and capturing scenarios, established an experiment plan and conceptionally defined the servicing and the to-be-serviced spacecraft. In the follow-on Phase B SpaceTech is responsible for the preliminary design of the Client spacecraft platform, several system prime level work packages in the OHB team as well as for the docking/berthing mechanism in the Kayser-Threde team.

German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ):

The GFZ has been one of the first customer of SpaceTech for various terrestrial and space related projects and activities like EnMAP, Grace Follow-On (Graf), the German Indonesian Tsunami Warning System (GITEWS) etc.

Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI):

Based on the long standing and trustful relationship of SpaceTech personnel with the Korean space agency in the KompSat-2 program, this fruitful cooperation has been continued in SpaceTech contracts for the KompSat-3 program, as well. The KompSat-3 solar array deployment mechanism ordered by KARI has been developed, successfully tested and delivered to Korea in 2008. In parallel SpaceTech provided system engineering consultancy for the KompSat-3 power system to KARI, as well.

National Space Organisation (NSPO) of Taiwan:

SpaceTech is supporting NSPO in defining and developing the Taiwanese Earth observation system Formosat-5 (former Argo program, renamed in 2009) by providing system level consultancy and world-wide procurement of essential satellite bus hardware.

EADS Astrium GmbH:

Besides the successful cooperation in the core team for the Lunar Exploration Orbiter phases A and B, SpaceTech further consolidated its business relationship with the various EADS Astrium sites in Germany for projects like the Lander Demonstrator mission and Next Lunar Lander.

OHB Technology AG:

A fruitful cooperation with OHB started with the DEOS Phase B study, where SpaceTech is part of the DEOS system engineering team lead by OHB-System.

Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary (KGS):

System consultancy for the system implementation, specification and procurement of the Earth Remote Sensing Satellite System (ERSSS).

Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA):

STI was prime contractor and system integrator for a cable based ocean bottom tsunami early warning system (KOBS) delivered and installed in 2008.

Kosmotras:

SpaceTech is providing marketing support in Europe and Far East for the DNEPR launcher on behalf of the Russian launch service provider Kosmotras. Besides SpaceTech performed for the DNEPR system various launcher accommodation studies (e.g. SMART-2, KompSat-5, EnMAP).

Carlo Gavazzi Space:

CGS has been SpaceTech's European partner in the Argo programme.

Yemen Seismic Operation Centre (YSOC):

In 2008 SpaceTech delivered and installed the Yemen Seismic Sensor Station (YESS) with VSAT real time communication based on the GEOPHON station concept of the GFZ.