Inspection of the HPtex-Mesh for ESA’s Next-Gen Earth Observation Satellite Successfully Completed After months of precision manufacturing at HPtex GmbH, a specialist in space-grade textiles based in Upper Franconia, Germany, a major milestone was reached on June 24, 2025, for the European space mission CIMR
Japan has its own startup culture in space technologies. One of the most prominent enterprises among them is iQPS Inc.. Founded back in 2005 by Dr. Yasaka and two colleagues, the company was established on the island of Kyushu in the southwest of the country.
Size matters – there are different opinions about this motto depending on the context. As far as the production of MESH is concerned, however, there are no dissenting voices. Why? With the size of the reflector in space, the economic efficiency of the deployment technology
Muenchberg (Germany), May 3rd, 2023. HPtex, the new hidden champion in the market for European Space Mesh (ESM), has now succeeded in taking long series of development phases to final success: knitting stainless steel to form a mesh for training and experimenting purposes. “The new
India completes development of an unfurlable reflector antenna As the Times of India recently reported, deployable antennas do not only hold significant potential for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), but are also considered a key element as subsystem for space radars that may
Largest joint innovation project in European spaceflight: Kick-off Phase C/D for the large deployable antenna “LDRS” in the CIMR project MESH exclusively provided by HPtex, Münchberg Since the spectacular win of the €110 million contract in 2020 for the development and construction of
HPS GmbH signed in the first quarter 2021 as prime contractor a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) concerning the development of a European reflective mesh for large deployable antenna reflectors, suitable for frequency bands for Ka-band up to V-band (25 to 50 GHz).
2nd of March 2021 marked the milestone of contract signature between HPtex GmbH and HPS GmbH for the provision of the metallic reflective mesh for the CIMR Mission of the EU Copernicus Earth Observation program. The CIMR Mission is a crucial element of the EU
With the successful test of the Deployable Assembly Arm (DAA), which connects a Deployable Reflector Assembly (DRA) to the satellite, just completed at INEGI, the European LEA consortium led by HPS has cleared the next hurdle in the technical realization of Europe’s new antenna technology.
With the foundation of HPTEX GmbH in February 2020 in equal shares by the Bavarian companies HPS GmbH and Iprotex GmbH & Co KG, a company is being launched that no one else in the space industry has ever had on the cards before: HPS, the
