According to director Devendran Thirunavukarasu, the city-based firm received an order from the UAE space agency in 2020 to supply parts that go into the manufacture of the satellite to research the soil and conduct water analysis on the Moon.
ST Advanced Composites, an aerospace and defense parts start-up that supplied structural components for the construction of satellites for a UAE space agency, plans to leverage the market potential in this area, according to a key official.
“The UAE space agency offered us one contract in December 2020, which we successfully finished in four to five months. Following that, there was a regular meeting, and they also granted the second order, which is to manufacture satellites. We began working in April 2022, and it was successfully launched on December 11 by SpaceX “In an encounter, he said PTI.
Scientists have begun communicating with the system now that the goal has been met. “They will be able to do soil tests and water analysis there (on the Moon),” he stated. He went on to say that the business contributed structural components in the manufacture of the payload, and satellite case of the rocket.
“The purpose is that it should be lightweight as weight plays a major role in the space sector. if you take metals, the density will be higher but with carbon fibre we can reduce it by up to 60 percent,” he said.
“When we supplied our parts to the UAE-based space agency they liked it. What we delivered to them was very light in weight…We are basically a light-weight manufacturer and solution provider for aerospace and defence,” he added.
The majority of the technology used is ‘carbon-fibre technology’, he said.
Thirunavukarasu, an aeronautical engineer from a farming family who subsequently completed his post-graduate studies in France, stated, “I was given the chance to work in aircraft production in Rome. After that, I returned to Chennai and founded the firm in 2014.”
According to him, the firm manufactures its goods using carbon fibre as the primary raw material, allowing them to significantly lower the weight of satellites, which account for the majority of the payload weight on a rocket.
The company after setting up a base in Chennai has plans to set up offices in Bengaluru and also in New Delhi.
“Right now we are about 20 people. We are planning to add another 20 people, when we set up the manufacturing facility at Vallam Vadagal,” he said.
