Aerospace
Advance your Innovations with Textile- and Polymer-based Solutions
When you’re looking to deliver innovations in aerospace applications that enhance communications, space exploration, and connectivity, you need a materials partner who goes above and beyond to match your ambition.
Enabling Breakthroughs in Aerospace Innovations
Whether you’re a start-up or global OEM, Solesis can custom-engineer performance material solutions derived from predicate and novel materials so your innovation can maintain critical characteristics such as flexibility, durability, and compactibility in extreme environments.
Solesis helps you empower innovation across these applications and beyond:
- Expansion of large and small satellite antenna reflectors
- Enhancing radio signal clarity
- Enabling space travel, exploration, and habitation
- Securing components or providing structural support on spacecraft and satellites
- Filtration (e.g., air, water, fuel)
- Containment
Integrate Next-generation Thinking into Your Next Innovation
From antenna mesh and carbon nanotubes to filtration materials, coatings, and containment systems, Solesis develops and scales technology-enabling materials that enhance ground and satellite communication between S-band and Ka-band frequencies across low-earth, medium-earth, geosynchronous, and lunar orbits, while also supporting space travel, exploration, and habitation. Whatever your vision, we’re here to help you realize it. Explore the multitude of solutions Solesis can help you develop, from material selection to commercialization.
Challenges Solesis Materials Solve
- 3D dimensionality
- Absorption (e.g., light, EMI, RF, radar, thermal)
- Aesthetics (e.g., color, touch)
- Anti-static
- Chemical resistance
- Collapsibility
- Compactibility
- Electrical integration
- Flexibility and flex-fatigue resistance
- Gas barrier properties
- High density
- High surface area
- Hybrids (e.g., fabric-to-film)
- Hydrolytic stability
- Lightweight
- Low creep
- Low profile
- Low-temperature resistance
- Lubricity/coefficient of friction (CoF)
- Openings per inch (10, 20, 30, and 40 OPI)
- Optical characteristics
- Permeability
- Porosity
- Protection
- Reflectivity
- Resilience
- Reinforcement
- Sealing
- Seamlessness
- Shielding (e.g., electromagnetic interference, thermal shielding)
- Smaller profiles
- Softness
- Stabilization
- Strength
- Stretch resist
- Stretchability
- Support
- Surface finish
- Tensile strength
- Thickness
- Unfurlability
- Uniformity
- Weldability
Materials Solutions for Aerospace
Aerospace Metals and Alloys
Engineered for exceptional strength-to-weight ratio, fatigue resistance, and thermal performance in structural, shielding, and conductive applications.
Aerospace Composite Materials
Tailored laminates and fiber-reinforced systems that deliver lightweight stability for deployable structures and statellite components.
Aircraft Materials
High-performance textiles, polymers, and coatings designed for vibration control, insulation, and long-term reliability under demanding flight conditions.
Aerospace Hybrid Materials
Combinations of polymers, textiles, and metals that create multifunctional, adaptable systems optimized for performance in space and atmospheric applications.
Your Innovation Backed by Decades of Experience
Innovating Aerospace Solutions with Integrated Polymer and Textile Expertise
With more than 80 years of experience in materials science, Solesis has the expertise to help you lead the way in aerospace innovation with advanced textile- and polymer-based solutions.
Our team of engineers can help you translate your unique specifications into scalable solutions that enable you to make bold advances in aerospace innovation, from material selection and prototyping to commercialization.
