RUAG Space
RUAG Space is the Space Division of the Swiss technology group RUAG. At a total of seven sites in Switzerland (Zurich, Emmen and Nyon), Sweden (Gothenburg, Linköping) and Austria (Vienna, Berndorf), RUAG Space employs around 1,100 people and posted sales of 283 million Swiss Francs in 2010.
Products
RUAG Space’s core business is the development and manufacture of subsystems & equipment for satellites and launch vehicles. The portfolio is divided into five product areas: (1) launcher structures and separation mechanisms, (2) satellite structures, mechanisms and mechanical equipment, (3) digital electronics for satellites and launch vehicles(4) satellite communications equipment and (5) satellite instruments.
Some specific products, such as slip rings or thermal insulation are offered also to non space customers
History
The RUAG space activities had their roots at the site of Emmen, Switzerland, in the late 1970s when the company started to carry out the final assembly of payload fairings for Ariane rockets as a subcontractor of Oerlikon Contraves (later named Oerlikon Space). Primarily through acquisitions RUAG expanded its space business continuously. First, the Swiss government owned company took over the companies Mecanex (Nyon) and HTS (Wallisellen). In 2008, RUAG acquired the Swedish SAAB Space and its subsidiary Austrian Aerospace. In 2009, RUAG finally bought Oerlikon Space AG, the largest Swiss space company at that time.
