Space Flight Hardware

TBE’s expertise covers the full spectrum of space flight hardware development, from concept through application support:  

• Requirements definition
• Analysis and design
• Software development
• High-fidelity mockups
• Prototype fabrication
• Production
• Flight qualification
• Spacecraft integration
• Operations.

We are especially qualified in developing hardware for microgravity experiments, including crew-operated and externally mounted experiments:

• Biotechnology equipment
• Thermal enclosures
• Gloveboxes
• Material science sample processing
• Crystal growth furnaces
• Data handling and power conditioning
• Earth science experiments.

In addition to our NASA efforts, TBE provides services and hardware for the European Space Agency and the Russian and Japanese space programs.