SPACE AND DEFENSE SYSTEMS
Addressing Global Challenges with Proven Space Optics Excellence
Turning Space-Based Measurements into Mission-Critical Insight
For more than 50 years, ABB has been a trusted leader in space optics, delivering high performance remote sensing instruments that help government agencies and the rapidly expanding commercial space sector capture reliable data and support critical decision-making.
Space offers a unique advantage, enabling a single sensor to deliver consistent, global insights day after day. To realize this vision, customers rely on ABB for optical measurements that perform with precision in one of the harshest environments imaginable. Guided by decades of flight heritage and engineering excellence, our sensors monitor the Earth’s surface, track atmospheric change, improve weather forecasting, strengthen security and enable exploration far beyond our planet for the benefit of all.
WHY CHOOSE ABB SPACE AND DEFENSE SYSTEMS
Innovation Savvy
<p>Our realizations set technology benchmarks in orbit, from the richest spectrum (SCISAT FTS) and highest pixel rate imager (EarthDaily constellation) to NASA's most sensitive camera (ROMAN CGI). </p>Flexibility
<p>Trusted by government space agencies for decades and increasingly selected by commercial space innovators, ABB delivers solutions tailored to your mission requirements, qualification standards and budget. </p>Reliability through Quality
<p>Committing to never achieved performance with dependability for years in orbit requires expertise depth and a quality-oriented mindset. Our reliability track record in orbit since 1999 is rich with more than 140 custom systems deployed and 4 billion scans performed by our precision mechanism without failure. </p>Trusted partner
<p>As part of a century-old Fortune 500 company present in 133 countries, ABB combines global stability with industry leading integrity standards. Technology innovation can be a complex journey where dependable partners reveal their true value.</p>HOW WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS
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Satellite payloads
- Complete satellite payloads:
- From UV to far-IR
- From panchromatic to hyperspectral (>100k channels)
- Wide-field and sub-meter imaging from LEO to GEO - Long integration to kHz imagery
- Photon counting to sun measurements
- Sub-kelvin absolute radiance calibration
Satellite technologies
- Low straylight telescopes
- Precision mechanisms (scene scanning, fine pointing, flip-in and shutters)
- Interferometers, gratings and filters
- Radiometric calibration sources
- Detectors and electronics
- Onboard processing
Contract manufacturing
ABB can productize your prototype and help scale it from early-stage builds to high-volume production, while meeting your exacting standards.
Mission concept and Engineering services
- Conceptual design, performance simulation & cost estimation
- Space qualification of novel technologies
- Prototypes, ground validation, airborne and balloon-borne demonstrators
OUR PRODUCTS
<p><b>SPACEBORNE EQUIPMENT</b></p>
LEMI multispectral imaging payload series
<ul> <li>Earth observation imaging payloads operating in pushbroom or scene-staring mode</li> <li>Near-diffraction-limited performance with apertures from 20cm to 500cm</li> <li>Available in three spectral ranges:<br> - VNIR<br> - SWIR<br> - Thermal IR</li> <li>Up to 10 customizable spectral bands in pushbroom mode</li> </ul>LUMI space domain awareness payload series
<ul> <li>SDA imagers operating in staring mode</li> <li>Track objects and protect spaceborne assets in LEO and GEO</li> <li>Available in VNIR and Thermal IR ranges</li> <li>0.2 arcsec measurement accuracy</li> </ul>ICAS flight infrared calibration source series
<ul> <li>Space-qualified infrared calibration sources </li> <li>Available in cavity form for the highest emissivity as well as compact textured plates</li> <li>mK thermometry accuracy</li> </ul><p><b>GROUND/FIELD EQUIPMENT</b></p>