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The Sentinel-3 payload container in the image is labeled ESA and RUAG.
André Wall will continue to lead RUAG International and Beyond Gravity until April 7, 2026.
Dr. Barbara Frei-Spreiter will become CEO of RUAG International Holding AG and Beyond Gravity on April 7, 2026.
André Wall has led RUAG International and Beyond Gravity for five and a half years.
The Swiss Confederation owns RUAG International and Beyond Gravity.
RUAG International plans to further develop Beyond Gravity’s capabilities and expand its international business under federal ownership.
RUAG International Holding AG has appointed Dr. Barbara Frei-Spreiter as the new CEO of RUAG International and Beyond Gravity.
Oliver Schiewe held past roles as Senior Vice President at RUAG Aerostructure Switzerland AG and RUAG Space Switzerland AG.
Lynx Single Board Computer has 250 times more processing power than RUAG Space’s normal onboard computers, including those RUAG delivers for European Space Agency programs.
RUAG International is shifting from a state-owned enterprise mentality toward a nimble startup mentality and is targeting analyst forecasts of a $1,000,000,000,000 space market in 2040.
Ruag’s Titusville facility can produce structures for up to 500 satellites per year.
Ruag opened a 45,000-square-foot facility in Titusville, Florida in 2017 to mass produce structures for OneWeb’s 150-kilogram satellites and for customers needing structures for satellites up to 500 kg.
Unsecured creditors listed in OneWeb's filing include Qualcomm Technologies ($8,000,000), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu ($6,900,000), Hughes Network Systems ($5,400,000), Deutsche Bank ($5,200,000), Viasat ($1,200,000), Nokia ($988,000), Rockwell Collins ($597,000), USSI Global ($501,000), Ruag ($328,000), and KSAT ($117,000).
Vulcan Centaur’s 5.4-meter composite fairing is manufactured by Ruag and was scheduled to fly that year.
RUAG USA is producing the 5.4-meter autoclave composite fairing in a facility located within the ULA Decatur factory and has moved all production of composite structures it builds for Atlas and Vulcan to Decatur.
RUAG USA is nearing completion of the first 5.4-meter fairing for Atlas and is expected to deliver the first fairing in early 2020.
Industry sources said RUAG declined to sell a 5.4-meter composite fairing to SpaceX because the fairing design was partially funded by ULA and is technically ULA's intellectual property.
SpaceX produces a 5.2-meter fairing and sought to purchase RUAG's 5.4-meter composite fairing to enable launching large national security payloads.
Ruag’s out-of-autoclave fairings are manufactured in the U.S. in a factory next to United Launch Alliance’s facility in Decatur and will fly on Atlas 5 2019.
Ruag designed its Titusville production line to adapt to customers seeking parts for low Earth orbit constellations as well as satellites destined for medium Earth orbit or geostationary orbit.