Involvement in the European Space Agency’s Intermediate Experimental Vehicle program to devise re-entry technology for low-earth orbit programs has given Aero Sekur an opportunity to take its expertise in the use of lightweight, flexible structures literally into the realms of rocket science. The company was selected for the work in November 2009 and is due to complete the project by the end of this year.
But Aero Sekur (Hall 4 Stand B8) has had 40 years of experience in developing more down-to- earth, but nonetheless vital, aerospace products, including flotation devices, aircraft evacuation slides and parachutes. The Anglo-Italian company is an unashamedly engineering-led enterprise that has built a specialization from combining materials in multi-layer, high-performance structures. They also feature advanced gassing systems that can inflate them in less than a second and control systems to ensure they immediately adjust to surrounding atmospheres as inhospitable as the surface of Mars.
