Delta-Utec Innovation in Aerospace & Sustainability

From hardware idea to proven product

We help hardware companies in aerospace and sustainability grow from TRL2 to TRL7 – on technical, business and funding aspects. Backed by a network that has built 8 satellites and space experiments since 1994.

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satellites and high-tech space experiments developed by our network since 1994

32 km

tether deployed by YES2: a Guinness World Record for the longest man-made structure in space

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track record in grant applications (ESA, EU Interreg, EIC Accelerator, WBSO, JTF, SSEB)

TRL2→7

support for hardware companies on technical, business and funding aspects

What we do

Hardware innovation is hard. We have been through it many times.

Delta-Utec IAS supports product development, go-to-market and company growth roadmaps, systems engineering, design and prototyping. Recent customer projects include smallsat development review, fixed-wing drone development, airborne wind energy innovation, ocean and river cleanup, and offshore floating solar project planning.

More about Delta-Utec

Engineers testing a hardware prototype in the lab

World record

The longest man-made structure ever deployed in space

In 2007, the student-built YES2 satellite deployed a 32 km tether from ESA’s Foton-M3 spacecraft to send the re-entry capsule Fotino back to Earth – earning a Guinness World Record.

The YES2 / Fotino story

Taking a hardware innovation to market?

Tell us where you are on the road from TRL2 to product. We’ll tell you how we can help.

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