Space heaters > Flexible heaters for mechanisms, specific shapes, deployable units, radiators, panels, antennas
Key highlights
Keep your critical space mechanisms running smoothly with Zoppas Industries' custom flexible heaters.
Our advanced heating elements are ideal for antenna pointing, robotic arms, reaction wheels, and CMGs, safeguarding lubricants from the intense cold of space. This ensures optimal viscosity for seamless, reliable operation, even in the most extreme environments.
By visiting the Zoppas Industries Heating Element Technologies website, customers can use the configurator to find tailored, custom-made solutions.
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Applications
In the unforgiving vacuum of space, vital mechanisms and motors face incredibly harsh, cold temperatures. Components essential for antenna pointing, solar panel positioning, robotic arms, and various actuators like reaction wheels, inertia wheels, gimbals, and control moment gyroscopes (CMGs), all rely on specialized lubricants. These lubricants ensure smooth movement, prevent friction, and minimize wear, which is critical for long-term functionality.
Beyond just maintaining the electronic elements, it's absolutely essential for these intricate systems to keep their lubricants at the right fluidity.
When lubricants become too viscous because of the severe low temperatures in space, it can drastically hinder performance. This might lead to sluggish operation, increased wear, or even the complete failure of crucial mechanisms, jeopardizing an entire mission.
This is precisely where Zoppas Industries' flexible heaters with customized shapes become indispensable.
These precisely engineered heating elements are vital for maintaining the lubricant's optimal viscosity. By providing targeted heat, our solutions ensure that these complex mechanisms operate effectively and reliably, even when exposed to the most extreme cold conditions imaginable.
Our flexible heaters are designed to seamlessly integrate with your components, safeguarding mission-critical functionality, extending the operational lifespan of your valuable space assets, and ultimately contributing to the success of your ambitious space endeavors.
Key features
Customized shapes, dimensions, resistance and connections, high flexibility, thin and lightweight, easy installation, internal redoudancy, EMC/ESD controlled design
Customization
Customized shapes, dimensions, resistance and connections; possibility to add Aluminum backing and/or space-qualified PSA, dual choice on insulation materials (FEP or Acrylic) and redundancy (single or double circuits, single or double layer)
Flight heritage
TRL 9, very long flight heritage (> 30 years)
Manufacturing
Etched foil technology under ESCC 4009 Generic Specification (since 1992)
Testing & qualification
ESCC 4009/0002 and 4009/0004
Export control
ITAR-free; NOT "Dual use": i.e. not included in Annex I of EU Regulation 2021/821 (Dual-Use Regulation) and any subsequent amendments and additions.
Distributors
N/A
Customers
LSTM, CIMR, Rose-L
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Last updated: 2026-11-10
Flexible heaters for mechanisms, specific shapes, deployable units, radiators, panels, antennas
lead time: 1 to 15 wk
MOQ: 1 to 5
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