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Contact Us. This WEB is under remodelling. Use this presentation as reference. Sorry for the inconvenience. Aguilar Aerospace S.L Aerospace Engineering Tlf: (+34) 657 76 25 59 Avda El Ferrol 19 piso 1 puerta 4 28029 Madrid (Spain) E-mail: Engineering@aguilar-aerospace.com.
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Contact Us This WEB is under remodelling. Use this presentation as reference. Sorry for the inconvenience Aguilar Aerospace S.L Aerospace Engineering Tlf: (+34) 657 76 25 59 Avda El Ferrol 19 piso 1 puerta 4 28029 Madrid (Spain) E-mail: Engineering@aguilar-aerospace.com
Fields Of Expertise • Aerospace Engineering • Thermal Control Design • Structural Analysis/Design • IT Consulting • Electronics Analysis/ Design • Space Weather • Radiation & particle physics • Scientific Instruments • Space Start-Ups Help Photo: 2002 FIDAE Chile Phone: +34 657-76-25-59 E-mail: Engineering@aguilar-aerospace.com
CAA ANTENNA • Thermal control for CAA Antenna. • Major challenges: High dissipation heat losses in a small room. • Thermal solution: Passive thermal control. • Increase of thermal radiative and conductive coupling between equipment and structure. Courtesy of Alcatel Space
CAA ANTENNA THERMICA GMM models for Conformal Array Antenna. Images generated with THERMICA
SARA ANTENNA • Thermal control for Sara Antenna. • Major challenges: Dual reflector non- homogeneous thermal conductivity. • Solution: Passive thermal radiative coatings/paints. Courtesy of EADS-CASA
XMM-NEWTON MSP MSP • Main Support Platform thermal control. • Major Challenges: Very complex assembly. • Solution: Passive thermal control and heaters.
METEOSAT SECOND GENERATION • Thermal control for the Service Module. • Thermal control for the propulsion lines, 400N LAMs & 10N Thrusters. • Coupling thermal models through TCP/IP. • Thermal Test prediction, correlation and support. Source: ESA-ESTEC imagery
MSG-1 Meteosat Second Generation Propulsion System (UPS) complexity. ESATAN TMM based on conduction and radiative sink temperatures was performed for the whole UPS
CUPOLA SHUTTERS (ISS) • Thermal control for the CUPOLA shutter mechanisms. • Major challenges: temperature control compatible with human handling and humidity condensation concerns. • Solution: inside elements temperature above dew-point and within a safe range. Source: ESA-ESTEC
CUPOLA SHUTTERS Hardware details Thermal Mathematical Model (TMM) Radiative couplings map
MARES PROJECT (ISS) • Structural analysis for Main Box and Ankle Adapter. • Major challenges: too high end-stop loads applied. • Very tight schedule. • Complex FEM model. Source: NTE S.A.
MARES PROJECT Main Box Ankle Adapter Solid Ankle Adapter Plates Images generated with PATRAN
FEM viewer SOFTWARE • Design and Implementation of a C-source program based on OPENGL for the visualization of complex FEM Nastran Models. • Fully operational. Actual screen dump of the program.
MGAX & MGAS ANTENNAS • Structural analysis for MGAX & MGAS antennas for Rosetta satellite. • Eigenvalues, static and Sine analyses. • MGAX : reflector antenna. • MGAS : Micro Strip antenna.
MGAX & MGAS ANTENNAS MGAS: Left - MGAX: Right Images created with custom FEM viewer program
ARIANE 5 VEB-ESC A • Structural analysis and thermal control. • Major challenges: very complex and diverse load cases (>87000). • A FORTRAN tool was developed to perform the analysis based on combinations of unitary loads. Source: ESA-ESTEC and INTA.
ARIANE 5 VEB-ESC A VEB Cylinder test setup FEM model VEB Cone test setup FEM model Images generated with PATRAN
DIMENSIONING FOR 157 FLIGHT DIMENSIONING MODEL FOR ARIANE 5 157 FLIGHT Image created with custom FEM viewer program
REINFORCEMENTS for 157 FLIGHT VEB window reinforcements for 157 flight test campaign. Image created with custom FEM viewer program
CRT for VEB ARIANE 5 • Structural analysis for the Combined Rupture Test (CRT) for the Vehicle Equipment Bay (VEB) • Purpose : Qualify the VEB structure. FEM model for the CRT test prediction
CRT for VEB ARIANE 5 Image generated with custom FEM viewer program
ASCAT ANTENNAS for METOP • Support for Thermal control activities for the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) antennas for the METOP satellite. • Main goal : provide a temperature range within specifications Source: ESA-ESTEC
ASCAT ANTENNAS for METOP MID ANTENNA ANTRF ANTENNA Geometrical Mathematical Models (GMM) for METOP antennas ANTRA ANTENNA Images created with ESARAD
GOBI ANTENNA for HISPASAT-1C • Study phase A of the thermal control of the Hispasat-1C GOBI antenna. • Main Challenges: very high dissipating elements and very compact design. • Solution : Heat pipe selection in order to conduct thermal loads to the radiators. Photo: Alcatel Space
EuTEMP • Temperature Recording Unit for EuTEF platform in Columbus pallet for ISS. • Consultancy activities in Thermal Control, Structures and Electronics Analysis EuTEMP GMM
CTTB(Sector Shielding Analysis) • Components Technology Test Bed • Structural/Thermal Design and Analysis • Radiation Dose Analysis • SEU Analysis Geant4 Simulation for CTTB
MultifunctionalSpectrometer • Interplanetary Particle Spectrometer • Structural and Thermal Design • Particle Interaction Simulator • Front-End design PIPS Simulator Main Window
OTHER WORKS • FORTRAN programs to post-process laminate stress and Margin of Security (MoS) for sandwiches structures based on TSAI-WU, HILL and HOFFMAN criteria. • FORTRAN post-process tools for stress in solid FEM elements. • EXCEL macros to post-process Micro strain data for Ariane 5 VEB test prediction.
CONCLUSIONS • The analysis involved in the projects shown herein belongs to both thermal and structural domain. • The problems range from medium to very complex subsystems. • The tools involved in the creation of the analyses are ESATAN, SINDA, ESARAD, THERMICA, NASTRAN, PATRAN, FEMAP, IDEAS, GEANT4, ROOT and many others.
FINAL CONCLUSIONS • Aguilar Aerospace has a high degree expertise and knowledge of the Aerospace industry. • All projects has been performed with great success in all fields. • The expertise in Aerospace is not only to the technical level but also as manager and marketing/sales level.