Bracketry, propellant-line hardware, cryogenic flanges, avionics housings, and antenna-feed components for satellites, launchers, and aerospace platforms. From a single qualification build to a small-batch flight lot — held to your outgassing, thermal, and radiation envelope.
Flying hardware fails in ways that ground hardware doesn’t. Outgassing, thermal cycling, and radiation budgets compound; the parts that survive flight are the ones designed against all three at once, not in sequence.
A 1 % TML adhesive on a satellite is a 100 % program risk once it plates your camera lens. We build with ASTM E595 ≤1.0 % TML / ≤0.1 % CVCM materials from CAD onwards — no last-minute substitution.
−180 °C to +120 °C ten times per day on a LEO spacecraft turns every CTE mismatch into a fatigue crack. Bracket geometry, fastener preload, and bonding-zone surface prep all live in the same fight.
Total ionising dose and single-event effects rule which PCBs you can fly and which materials degrade. We build to MIL-PRF-38535 / ESCC-class supply chains and document every lot.
A satellite or launcher bill of materials pulls from titanium machining, aluminum precision, AM, sheet, IM, and high-rel PCBA. You shouldn’t need six suppliers — every part below ships from a single FabDigit cell.
Topology-optimised Ti-6Al-4V brackets, Al-7075 chassis, and Inconel 718 propellant fittings. ±0.005 mm bore concentricity routinely.
Learn more Lattice brackets · propellant manifoldsSLM Ti-6Al-4V and AlSi10Mg for lattice-fill brackets, propellant manifolds, and TWT housings. Hot-isostatic-pressed where the fatigue spec demands it.
Learn more Avionics boxes · MLI shroudsAluminum and steel avionics-box enclosures, MLI thermal shrouds, CFRP-aluminum bonded sandwich panels. Cleanroom-prepped final assembly.
Learn more PEEK · PEKK harness clipsPEEK and PEKK harness clips, cable-routing brackets, and connector backshells. Materials with ASTM E595-compliant outgassing certs.
Learn more Avionics · TWT driver · TT&CHigh-rel space-grade 4 – 16 layer PCBs, polyimide flexes, gold-plated antennas, IPC J-STD-001ES assembly with X-ray on every BGA.
Learn more GEVS · qualification reviewsEmbedded ME / system engineer for qualification (vibration, thermal-vac, TID). We can co-locate for the duration of a flight qual.
Learn moreWorking ranges across recent satellite, launcher, and aerospace programs. Coatings row carries our moat: surface treatments restricted on US/EU plating lines that our partner cells still run.
A composite of the small-sat programs we currently build for. 6U class, monopropellant propulsion, S-band TT&C. Each callout is where the engineering trade-off lives.
Copper-tungsten / Cu-Cr hinge with selective gold plate at the rotation contact. ASTM E595-clean Vespel SP-1 bushing.
High-rel 8 – 12 layer PCBs, polyimide substrates, conformal-coated, X-ray on every BGA. IPC J-STD-001ES assembly traceability.
Spun-formed titanium tank with vapour-blast finish under MLI. Helium-leak tested to 10⁻⁹ mbar·L/s.
Hard-anodised 7075-T6 wheel housings, dynamically balanced to ISO 1940 G1.0. Sealed for cleanroom integration.
3D-printed and HIP-treated Inconel 718, finish-machined throat to ±0.01 mm. Acoustic and hot-fire qualified at our partner cell.
Topology-optimised 6082-T6 frame, vapour-blast finish (no Cr⁶⁺ conversion), bonded-in dielectric stand-offs.
These six parts make up the majority of the spend on a typical satellite or aerospace program. Spec ranges below are working envelopes — your drawing tightens them.
Topology-optimised Ti-6Al-4V or AlSi10Mg bracket. 5-axis CNC for small lots, SLM + HIP for production lattice fills.
5-sided machined or sheet-metal avionics enclosures. EMI gasketing, chassis-grounded, MLI-compatible mounting surfaces.
Welded Ti or Inconel propellant lines, machined flanges with all-metal seals. Helium-trace tested per joint.
Machined Ti or austenitic stainless flanges for LOX / LH₂ service. CGA-class sealing surface finish, helium-trace certified.
Machined or printed aluminum / brass antenna feedhorns and waveguides. Selective gold plating at the RF surface.
Full cubesat / smallsat structural chassis. Modular rail system, bead-blast finish, bonded-in fasteners.
Every space program lives or dies on the thermal, outgassing, and radiation envelope. Pick an envelope to see which materials qualify, which sit on margin, and which fail outright — and what FabDigit ships for that envelope.
Industry-typical ranges from recent engagements. Specific commitments land in your quote.
At engineering-model quantities, 5-axis CNC wins on speed and revisability. SLM + HIP wins at qual-coupon volumes when the lattice geometry pays back. Pure conventional cast loses past 5 brackets.
Three candidate flight materials. Titanium wins on strength + thermal compatibility; AlSi10Mg SLM wins on lattice fill; Mg AZ31 saves mass when the loads allow it.
Freeze-to-ship-set for a 6U cubesat structural lot. Parallel where it can be, never serial when it doesn't have to be — qualification coupons run alongside flight builds.
Space programs are notorious for compressed schedules right before qualification. The six phases below are how we keep one moving without leaving any test campaign incomplete.
Drawings + STEP + outgassing/thermal envelope land in our portal. A mechanical + materials engineer review them within 48 hours, flagging material substitutions and surface-prep choices before quote.
Quote out in 5 – 7 days. First engineering-model parts on a 5-axis fixture within 10 days; first ship-set in hand within 35 – 70 days.
CMM, ASTM E595 coupon, helium-trace leak data, surface roughness reports — all packaged with the parts. We don’t self-certify; we ship evidence your DER will recognise.
On-site or remote support during vibration, thermal-vac, and TID qualification. ECNs flow through engineering, not through silent change orders on the next lot.
Heat-lot traceability per part, IPC J-STD-001ES on the PCBs, cleanroom final assembly + sealing. Each lot ships with its DPL pack.
50 – 200 ship-sets / month for small-sat constellations, with held-inventory spares per ship-set. Long-lead lots committed 24 months forward.
Dedicated aerospace 5-axis CNC cell for titanium and Inconel work. Tool-life-managed cutters per material, climate-controlled to ±0.5 °C, and a coupon CMM in-line so the second pass on a long part never drifts.
A composite of recent programs, anonymised to protect customer IP. Numbers are real ranges from the engagements they’re drawn from.
The customer was scaling from 1-off engineering models to a 28-spacecraft LEO constellation, on a launch window that didn’t move. Their previous vendor stack quoted 4 months from drawing freeze to first ship-set; the launch slot wouldn’t wait.
We took the entire BoM into a single cell: 5-axis Ti brackets, SLM AlSi10Mg primary structure, polyimide PCBA, MLI-spec sheet metal, and the propellant-line flanges. Engineering ran a parallel SLM proto while the conventional CNC schedule ramped — the moment the SLM coupons passed outgassing, the design froze.
Ship-set #1 landed in 42 days; ship-sets #2 through #28 followed at one every 5 days. Constellation launched on time with two ship-sets in reserve.
EPA / OSHA rulings since 2018 have closed dozens of US-side aerospace conversion lines. Our partner plants still run them daily. The list below shows up most on flight drawings.
Hex-Cr anodise still spec'd by some legacy aerospace standards on aluminum brackets. Closed-loop bay, full neutralisation, per-lot conductivity audit.
Conductive corrosion protection on aluminum chassis grounded to spacecraft chassis. Audited per lot for thickness uniformity.
Low-α MLI-mating finish for sun-side panels. Dyed black to within IR spec, no chromium.
Selective hard-gold 0.5 – 2 µm on antenna feedhorns, waveguides, slip-ring contacts. Cyanide-bath line; closed-loop water recovery.
Vapour-blast finish on titanium brackets and tanks — no chemical residue, ASTM E595-clean.
Low-α/ε white paint applied in a cleanroom paint booth, per-batch coupons for spectroradiometric validation.
AS9100 compliance is held by the partner cells we deploy through. A US onshore cell handles ITAR / export-controlled flight programs. NDA before any CAD changes hands; site audits with 7 days notice.
We build to ASTM E595 by material choice from CAD onwards, and submit coupons for E595 testing where the program demands it. Adhesives, bonding materials, and bushings are all chosen against ≤1.0 % TML / ≤0.1 % CVCM unless otherwise specified.
Yes — Ti-6Al-4V SLM is one of our most-used aerospace processes. HIP is in-line for fatigue-critical parts. We can hand off raw or finish-machined to ±0.01 mm.
We run a dedicated bead-blast + vapour-blast cell for MLI-mating surfaces — no chromate, no waxed-paper residue. Roughness and outgassing coupons ship with each lot.
For programs over $500 k we send a mechanical engineer on-site for GEVS vibration and thermal-vac campaigns. We can also run pre-qual coupons through our own thermal-vac partner.
Yes — ISO 8 final clean is the default; ISO 6 or ISO 7 for optical and sensitive-payload programs. Cleanroom passport with each ship-set.
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Send drawings, or send a thermal-vac envelope and an outgassing budget. Either way you’ll have an ME reviewing within 48 hours and a real quote on a real schedule shortly after.
