Structural soundness has been the key to Nitrexo’s success. The culture of adherence to traditional practices, coupled with experimentation and discovery, allow for reliable tech and ground-breaking advancement.
Nitrexo has proven its ability to deliver cost-effective engineering solutions for businesses, not only in the fields of space and thermal engineering, but also in other related sectors such as defence and naval, energy, and electronics, to name a few.
Nitrexo is founded on its thorough knowledge and expertise in Engineering. Since its inception, the company has continuously improved its technical and scientific understanding of how pieces work and fit together to create new functions.
By blending the latest technology with the established traditional systems, innovation and efficiency have become Nitrexo’s brand.
The following are some of the engineering solutions that the company offers:
The journey from earth to space involves the handling of changing temperatures from one extreme to another. Successfully managing this rapid shift and controlling it using thermal analysis ensures the astronauts’ safety and the preservation of the ship, along with the instruments and equipment on board.
For this reason, engineers have to establish a thermal model to accurately predict the energy required to maintain temperature balance in outer space. These thermal models need to undergo specific tests and validation to determine the system’s optimum performance.
Nitrexo specializes in building spacecraft and satellite subsystems’ 3D modelling as well as in conducting tests, and using ESATAN-TMS®, which provides the necessary environment for thermal modelling with the use of software like Thermica® or Systema® and Thermal Desktop®.
Although Nitrexo is popular among experts in the space and aeronautics fields, it is a mechanical engineering company at its core.
To the general population, the terms ‘aerospace’ and ‘mechanical’ seem to be interchangeable. However, as aerospace engineers keep their focus on every equipment that flies–or are essential in flying–mechanical engineers deal with a broader scope.
This means that Nitrexo does not only offer engineering solutions to space and aeronautics clients; they can also cater to issues presented by clients from different industries (e.g. automotive, infrastructure, etc.).
Technologies such as Patran® and ANSYS® have upgraded the quality of engineering. The company uses them for the entire design process—from drafting the concept model and manufacturing to testing a product. Nitrexo uses various software applications to perform comprehensive mechanical analyses.
This engineering solution deals with issues on fluids, either in motion or at rest. Fluids, by nature, tend to deform or flow whenever shear stress is applied onto it. Fluid mechanics is extremely important, as the forces produced from it can be used in a wide array of practical applications, such as jet propulsion and hydraulic brakes.
Nitrexo offers both aerodynamic and aero thermodynamic analysis to determine the optimum drag coefficient of a space vehicle and mitigate the risk of a space product’s combustion during propulsion/re-entry.
The company uses its extensive knowledge on conceptual studies, design, model architecture, and numerical simulations to compute every possible scenario during a space mission such as the Back from Space (BFS) project.
The BFS project is an innovative concept in fluid mechanical engineering. The project involves the launching of experiments inside a CubeSat and recovering them on earth using re-entry kits.
The BFS project is a CubeSat experiment re-entry-from-space program that allows scientific experiments to get into earth and out to space, as many of these experiments still need human intervention in an ISS (International Space Station) facility.
The project works on experiments like ageing in space, MMOD (Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris) flux characterisation, asteroid mining, ABIS (Automated Biometric Identification System), and many more. It is especially useful for high-value industrial applications like solar cells calibration and recovery.
The increasing importance of optical engineering in industries like manufacturing, medicine, communication, and space means there is also a growing need for highly specialised engineering solutions – from improving the designs of existing devices to developing new ones.
Nitrexo offers various services to design and build devices, as well as solve the numerous problems, that an industry faces when dealing with optics. The team utilises its deep and substantial knowledge and puts them into practical use to develop the most effective solutions.
Using a specialised software, Nitrexo can run computer simulations to provide clients tailor-made engineering solutions for their respective fields.
With devices getting smaller, the growing market for nanosatellites shouldn’t come as a surprise. A nanosatellite works as well as the conventional satellite despite its miniscule size. It usually weighs around 1 and 10 kgs whereas a normal satellite should weigh more than 1000 kgs.
Nanosatellites are primarily used in mapping and navigation in the military and defence sectors, although they can also be employed in scientific research and commercial applications.
It is their widespread application across various industries that drives the increasing demand in their construction. To this end, Nitrexo’s expert team of engineers guarantees the timely and high-quality construction of these small, light-weight satellites.
By definition, a prototype is a working-scaled model of a developing product and can come in various forms. While a tactile model is the normal form of a prototype, some prefer using computerised prototypes based on 3D design software.
The construction of a prototype is crucial for any product, as it allows the engineer to study their design and evaluate it numerous times before sending the final design to production.
At Nitrexo, the flawless construction of prototypes is the norm. Aside from creating physical models, Nitrexo meticulously checks a product for flaws and ensures that the final design’s production will not be dangerous in any way.
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