Beyond Gravity is a leading space product supplier and the largest independent space equipment provider in Europe, with a growing presence in the United States. They develop and manufacture products for satellites and launch vehicles. Key products include payload fairings, satellite structures, mechanisms, and onboard electronics, serving customers like Amazon, ArianeGroup, and United Launch Alliance. They are also a supplier for the lithography industry.
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The PLATO spacecraft is being built and assembled by an industrial core team led by the main contractor OHB Bremen, in collaboration with ThalesAlenia Space and Beyond Gravity.
Beyond Gravity’s site in Vienna, Austria produces control electronics for the antenna mechanisms on the six Galileo satellites built by Thales Alenia Space to establish direct communication between the satellites.
Beyond Gravity supplies solar array drive mechanisms to Airbus that point the Galileo satellites’ solar arrays to provide the payload, especially the atomic clocks, with required electric power.
Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) supplies thermal insulation, mechanisms, and structures to the next generation of European Galileo navigation satellites.
Beyond Gravity supplies products to both Airbus and Thales Alenia Space for the Galileo Second Generation satellite program.
Beyond Gravity will supply the structure and thermal insulation for all six Galileo Second Generation satellites built by Airbus.
Beyond Gravity’s site in Austria is supplying a total of 12 gimballing mechanisms for the electric thrusters on the six Galileo Second Generation satellites built by Thales Alenia Space.
Beyond Gravity is building the thermal insulation for the Airbus-built Galileo satellites in Austria.
Beyond Gravity is building the satellite structure for the Airbus-built Galileo satellites in Zurich.
Oliver Schiewe held past roles as Senior Vice President at RUAG Aerostructure Switzerland AG and RUAG Space Switzerland AG.
Oliver Schiewe has 19 years of experience in the space industry, including time at RUAG Space in Switzerland.
Beyond Gravity develops and builds its navigation receivers at its site in Vienna, Austria.
The thermal insulation supplied by Beyond Gravity is manufactured at the company’s site in Austria.
NASA is using a navigation receiver from Beyond Gravity for a climate protection satellite due to be launched on 2024-02-06.
Beyond Gravity develops and builds its navigation receivers at its site in Vienna, Austria.
Beyond Gravity’s Extended GNSS PEC antenna operates across all GNSS bands from L5/E5a, E5b, L2 to L1/E1, provides near-hemispherical coverage with reduced spacecraft illumination and lowered cross-polarization, has a mass of 0.735 kg, measures 0.2 m diameter × 0.087 m height, and uses a female SMA RF connector.
Beyond Gravity operates a startup program called Launchpad that has established collaborations with multiple startups.
Ethereal X is part of Beyond Gravity’s startup ecosystem and is working on a 100% reusable rocket.
Beyond Gravity operates a startup program called Launchpad that has established collaborations with several startups.
Beyond Gravity’s separation systems have performed more than 1,200 in-orbit separations with a 100% success rate to date.