LEA, the European Large Deployable Reflector Subsystem (LDRS) is evolving quickly. This image film shows how a 5m deployable reflector, 5m deployable arm, HDRM, harness, electronics, etc. – is under assembly, and – how this ambitious company HPS with its leader, Ernst Pfeiffer, started to prepare for the qualification campaign – reaching TRL8 for C/X-band […]
LEA is the first fully European large deployable reflector subsystem developed by a consortium of more than 15 companies out of 7 countries It is a declaration of European non-dependance in space. A 5m C-band EM has been successfully tested in 2016 (under contract to ESA), a 6m diameter X-Band PFM is under manufacturing (co-funded […]
