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SPX3

Specialised PTFE-coated fibreglass fabric that possesses excellent flexibility and crease characteristics.

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Versiv Space Materials are high-performance fabric composites incorporating fluoropolymers, polyimides, or a combination of both. Their flexibility, environmental resistance and customisable construction make them suited to the evolving requirements of deployable space systems.

Tensile and Tear Performance

Handling, integration and deployment can introduce tensile and tear forces, with the risk of excessive elongation, tearing or damage propagation. Reinforced Versiv Space Materials can provide tensile strength and tear resistance while retaining the flexibility and low mass required for lightweight deployable structures.

Reinforced Versiv Space Materials can provide tensile strength and tear resistance while retaining the flexibility and low mass required for lightweight deployable structures.

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Dimensional and Mechanical Stability

Thermal cycling, handling, integration and deployment forces can challenge dimensional stability and structural integrity.

The fibreglass reinforcement within Versiv Space Materials helps constrain the thermal expansion of polymer components, resulting in a very low effective coefficient of thermal expansion. It also contributes tensile strength and tear resistance, helping limit dimensional change, excessive elongation and damage propagation while retaining the flexibility and low mass required for deployable systems.

Lightweight Construction

Every gram of mass and millimetre of stowed volume matters, particularly for large-area structures that must pack into a compact form.

Thin, lightweight Versiv Space Materials provide functional protection with minimal added mass, supporting large-area structures where low weight and compact stowage are critical.

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Long-Term Stowage Stability

Months or years under sustained compression can lead to creep, stress relaxation, dimensional change, loss of geometry or reduced mechanical recovery.

Versiv Space Materials incorporate dimensionally stable reinforcement layers to help maintain shape and mechanical performance during extended storage. The inherently low surface energy of fluoropolymers and polyimide also prevent the risk of interlayer adhesion where surfaces remain in prolonged contact.

Customisable systems. Co-developed for your mission.

Versiv Space Materials can be engineered around the mechanical, thermal, electrical and environmental requirements of the application.

We work closely with customers to co-develop material systems for specific deployable architectures and mission requirements, tailoring material thickness, reinforcement, surface treatment, coating construction and other key parameters.

Metallised options

Versiv Space Materials can be metalised to tailor thermo-optical and electrical properties.

Metalised constructions provide controlled reflectivity, emissivity and electrical behaviour while maintaining a lightweight, flexible substrate suitable for deployable structures.

Tunable Electrical Conductivity

Versiv Space Materials are inherently electrically insulating, but the electrical behaviour of the finished material system can be engineered through conductive components or modified constructions.

Electrical tuning enables controlled surface conductivity, from insulating through dissipative and semi-conductive behaviour, depending on the requirements of the application.

Tunable Surface Energy

Versiv Space Materials inherently have low surface energy, supporting non-stick and low-friction performance, but their surface behaviour can also be modified where required.

Surface tuning enables increased bondability, improved adhesion, heat sealing and integration with other materials, depending on the requirements of the application.

Advanced Materials for Space Deployables

Versiv Space Materials combine flexibility, dimensional stability and resistance to thermal extremes, while supporting the folding, rolling and compact stowage required for deployable space structures.