MGSE for satellite integration and testing

• ProgrammeGeostationary telecommunications satellite
• Scope40+ MGSE devices
• DisciplineMechanical design and structural analysis
• MaterialMostly aluminium
• DeliverableManufactured and documented equipment

The challenge

The satellite manufacturer needed dedicated tooling for each phase — assembly, testing and transport — respecting flight interfaces and facility constraints, without multiplying devices nobody maintains afterwards.

Scope

• Integration process analysis to define the strictly necessary tooling
• Support structures for assembly and testing
• Lifting and tilting tooling, adapters and satellite interfaces
• Transport devices inside and outside the facility
• Satellite transport system up to the launch pad
• Finite element structural verification
• Complete fabrication documentation

How we worked

One equipment family, not forty loose parts. Devices were designed as a coordinated set over the full lifecycle, together with the client's specialists.

Design for manufacture. Materials and processes chosen so the workshop could build without reinterpreting drawings.