Large deployable reflectors and lightweight structures for European space missions
Large Space Structures designs and manufactures deployable reflectors and adaptive composite structures for satellite and space telescope applications across Europe. The company's stack is pure mechanical engineering—ANSYS, NASTRAN, SolidWorks, MATLAB, FORTRAN—with no cloud, no modern DevOps, no AI tooling. Their hiring is engineering-heavy (13 of 14 roles) and heavily senior-skewed (8 of 14), suggesting specialized technical depth and tight project cycles rather than scaling volume.
Large Space Structures GmbH, founded in 2012 by Technical University of Munich experts, develops large deployable reflectors (LDR), membrane arrays, reflectarrays, and in-orbit reconfigurable reflectors for European space agencies and industrial contractors. The company operates in the 51–200 employee range and is self-owned. Active projects span Copernicus missions, EU-funded space programs, and flight integration support, with work alongside ESA and European partners. Core competencies include structural design, composite and membrane material testing, and adaptive morphing structures. Challenges include managing multi-stakeholder projects under tight deadlines, EU compliance, supply-chain resilience, and reducing non-conformities in aerospace manufacturing.
ANSYS (APDL, Mechanical, Workbench), NASTRAN, FEMAP, SolidWorks (+ PDM), Python, MATLAB, FORTRAN, Octave, and Git. Primarily mechanical CAD, FEA, and numerical analysis tools.
Active work includes a conical imaging microwave radiometer for the Copernicus mission, deployable antenna reflector development, multiple EU-funded space projects, and integration support for flight hardware through PDR, CDR, and QR milestones.
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