During the development of the passive attitude control system we had to process special materials. We took a very long, really thin band, which had to be cut to reach the adequate size. More precisely: we had to drill holes into a 50 m long, 5 mm wide, 70 micrometer thick special ribbon – which can not be carried out with traditional methods. With the applied laser methods of ExaSol, it was possible to cut several hundred profiles. After cutting, the plates were taken into an acidic-ultrasonic liquid. After this they were laminated, and were taken to heat treatment. Magnetec GmbH gave us the ribbon and their experts offered their help in the assembly and heat treatment.
Besides the plates, we prepared prisms as well made of another special material. FerrVáz Ltd. helped us in laser-cutting the 4 mm thick alloys.
