DCUBED uses Ansys Simulation Software to develop Actuators and Deployable Structures

New-Space – the Space Industry is in Transition

The German start-up DCUBED is part of the New-Space Initiative, which aims to commercialize space travel and thereby link it with the traditional economy. There is a new space transition going on which is moving away from big satellites to launching hundreds and thousands of small satellites that are used in space. These satellites can be put quite nicely in the launcher because they are standardized to fit the payload fairing. Once the satellites have arrived in space, they often require larger structures, such as solar panels for power generation or antennas for data transmission, which do not fit in the rocket. This is where DCUBED's solutions come in.

DCUBED is working on deployable structures which are small on the ground and big in space and the release mechanism that trigger the release. Founded in 2019, DCUBED has 17 people working in Germering near to Munich. For the simulation of the structures and to verify that they will stand the launch and deploy in space, the start-up uses Ansys simulation software.