Customers & Markets
Our products and Services are available to customers worldwide to whom we provide the highest quality price competitive Space Hardware for missions ranging from manned to un-manned and for applications in Power, Optics and Instrument sensing.
ABSL has delivered highly successful battery and optical space projects and products in Europe for many years. An example of this striking success is ABSL Space Products unmatched record, having won battery contracts to power every single ESA Cornerstone mission.
Amongst the long list of satisfied ABSL’s customers can be found all the major players in the Space and Aerospace industry worldwide including but not limited to:
Europe:
- BNSC
- CNES
- EADS Astrium
- ESA European Space Agency
- EUMETSAT
- INTA
- OHB
- SSTL
- Thales Alenia
Rest Of the World (ROW):
- DSO
- INPE
- IAI
- ISRO
- KARI
- MECTRON
- Sunspace
“The European arm of ABSL Space Products delivers ITAR-Free Space hardware to our European and ROW customers. However ABSL Space Products is uniquely positioned to best service USA clients via a Colorado based ITAR controlled, fully encompassing facility, from which ABSL routinely delivers projects for both governmental and commercial space programs.”
USA:
- Aeroastro
- AFRL
- ASRC Aerospace Corporation
- ATK
- Ball
- Goodrich
- Hamilton Sundstrand
- Honeywell
- Lockheed Martin
- Loral
- MIcroSat
- NASA
- Northrop Grumman
- Spacedev
- United Space Alliance
ITAR Management
When setting up US space infrastructure, ABSL was extremely careful to ensure that the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) were properly adhered to. ABSL has serviced US space customers since the SDI program in the 1980’s and, through numerous space projects conducted in the United Kingdom, has built up considerable experience working within the boundaries of the ITAR. ABSL has worked both directly with the United States Government on space programs as well as through prime contractors under formal export licenses granted by the US state Department. For example, when working with US primes, Technical Assistance Agreements (TAA) have been granted to facilitate the open discussion of battery requirements and other areas vital to the efficient execution of space battery projects. In the past, ABSL programs with US customers required the export of information deemed sensitive by the ITAR, it was the responsibility of our customers to ensure that the correct licenses were applied for and in place. This was unsatisfactory due to the time and legal resource required to obtain the correct export vehicles. Indeed, a primary reason for ABSL to invest in the set up of an American based capability was to remove this ITAR burden from our customers. Together with ITAR legal experts, experienced specifically in space programs, ABSL constructed an effective Export Compliance Plan for the US division that ensures clear channels of communication for all programs. Eventually, the ABSL Colorado operations will be staffed entirely by US citizens and permanent residents.