Welcome

Apcon AeroSpace & Defence GmbH is specialized in development and manufacturing of customized high reliability power supplies and electronic, for our worldwide customers, for military, aviation and space applications.

We are one of the market leaders for aerospace power-units, RFG-radio frequency generators & power devices for satellite electric propulsion system (RIT Radio frequency Ion Thruster).

The company strategy of APCON is providing customer specific, fully in-house and high end solutions as a sub-contractor for your mission.

Fields of business

Space electronics and satellite payload power supplies

Military, missile, defence and airborne applications

Avionics, analog & sigital signal processing

Radio Frequency Generators (RFG)

Power supply and power electronic (PSU, PSCU, PPU, high voltage, beam current control) for satellite electric propulsion system (RIT Radio frequency Ion Thruster),

Development, production & test

Test Equipment (EGSE) for special applications

Areas of competence

APCON was founded in 1994 as a spin-off of AIRBUS-DS power supply department (former EADS / Astrium / DASA / MBB). We have more than 30 years of experience in design, production and test of different kind of electronic units.

We offer superior different competences and services, with our own facilities and personal staff – ALL in-house:

Development of power electronic and other different kind of high tech applications or special test systems, test equipment electronics
Schematic circuit design entry, PCB layout (CAE), mechanical & structure design (CAD)
Design of high-density technology, very small dimensions, highest product quality
Analysis and simulation performance (PSpice, PSA, WCA, FMECA, MTBF, FEM, Reliabiltiy analyses, Worst Case, Part Stress, Thermal & Structure, Magnetics & Transformers etc.)
Complete simulations and analyses before prototypes are built – No breadboards – immediately engineering models
In house production of the complete unit, electronic and mechanical components, integrated CAM-CAD post processing, pick & place parts placement and assembly
Manufacturing of Transformers, Inductor & Storage Coils
Individual programmed test-software and created test-hardware system, EGSE test equipement and test facilities for special applications
Automatic in-house testing, full qualification test programm of products acc. to Space or MIL standards.
Compliant to usual MIL- and Space (e.g. EMC, ESCC) specifications
Partner network for special environmental tests (AIRBUS, IABG, STEEP, DLR, ESA, Aerospazio)

space

ion thruster and electric propulsion

aeronautic/aircraft

helicopter applications

missile applications

Services and test systems

Reference customer and partner

Our customers in the aerospace branch are the top ten and who is who – national and worldwide – with commercial serial product applications, high challenging projects and/or special missions by institutional agencies NASA/ESA/DLR.

We have executed more then >300 projects – 233 space power supply active in space and diverse 2.545 military defence units in operation. APCON has demonstrated Space and MIL heritage and is well known and established in the market over 30 years. We have special business relationships, direct contact and network to our long time customers (Airbus, ArianeGroup, Boeing, DLR Center of Space, ESA & ESTEC, Jena-Optronik, OHB Space Systems, Thales Alenia Space) and subcontractors. There are and were always some healthy dependencies, in strategic projects with long term agreements or long time contracts existing between of APCON and its customer, esp. Boeing, ArianeGroup, Thales Alenia, DLR, ESA. APCON has direct contact to those responsible at program- and project-level.