COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Crisa, an Airbus Defence and Space company, is a reference supplier of complex on-board electronics for space. More than 28 years’ experience and 750 electronic units flown into 170 space missions back Crisa’s capabilities in the design and manufacturing of complex electronic equipment for satellites and launchers.

The company’s activities cover a wide product range like:

• System engineering

• Launcher electronics

• Driving electronics

• Electrical propulsion electronics

• Front-end electronics and video processing

• On board computers

• Remote terminal units

• Power distribution units

• Power control units

• DC/DC converters

• Cooler electronics

• Microelectronics

• Antenna Driving

• Flight software

At the moment, the company is working on key programs like Ariane 5 and Vega launchers, the ATV vehicle and Eurostar platform. Also in well-known satellites like the Sentinels 2, 3, 4 and 5P, Ingenio, Paz, BepiColombo, EarthCARE, SolarOrbiter, Meteosat Third Generation or Metop Second Generation.

Crisa has expanded its engineering and project management skills in other ground segment projects. Some of these projects include network architecture design for secure communications; control center implementation, operation and maintenance; archiving and cataloguing systems; remote operation.

Crisa is able to provide reliable electronics designed for harsh environment like space or under no-maintenance conditions. The company has also a strong knowledge of system engineering and project management.

Crisa is fully integrated in Airbus Defence and Space, a division of Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military. The new division is Europe’s number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. It employs some 40,000 employees generating revenues of approximately €14 billion per year.

FACILITIES

The Manufacturing and Test department integrates 80 people, including well-trained and experienced ESA certified technicians. The yearly production capability is about 70 fully terminated and tested flight units.

Positive results in space projects strongly depend on a high level of quality assurance during the design and production phases, principally in accordance with ESA/ECSS standards embedded in the Quality Management System certified according to EN9100, PECAL/AQAP 2110 and ISO 9001

Manufacturing facilities and testing means:

Manufacturing facilities:

• 1,500 m2 clean room area ISO 8 (class 100.000)

• SMT line: pre-forming machine, automatic solder paste dispensing, semiautomatic pick and place machine, and vapour phase re-flow soldering machine

• Conducted EMC testing

• X ray inspection

• Wave Soldering Machine

• 60 m2 clean room area ISO 6&7

• 5 laminar flow benches ISO 5 (class 100)

600 m2 Integration area for defence and industrial production

350 m² Electrical Test Laboratory:

• High Voltage Laboratory

• Manual and full automatic test equipment

160 m² Environmental Testing Test Laboratory:

• Shaker Thermotron

• Thermal Cycling Chambers for 1.100 and 200 litres)