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AQUA
ISISPACE has been awarded funding from the Netherlands Space Office – an SBIR development contract by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. The 2-year project entails the design, prototyping, and qualification of a 3D printed deployer, with the main goal of reducing mass, while increasing design flexibility.
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The development has been done in conjunction with The Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) Additive Manufacturing Knowledge Center and Wilting Components B.V., a specialist in manufacturing of mechanical structures. The Advanced QuadPacks Using Additive Manufacturing (AQUA) Mission aims to significantly lower the total cost by applying AM to the Deployer and hence, lower the mass of a unit. The study showed that the best part for application of AM is the so-called body of the deployer.
First prototype, 3U size.
Disassembled first prototype with a mass dummy.
| Project Overview | |
|---|---|
| Customers | NSO |
| Mission | AQUA |
| Category | Research & Development |
| Scope | CubeSat Deployer |
| Completion Date | 2022 |