To Design and Produce Innovative, Mission-Enabling, Deployable Space Systems, Structures, and Solar Arrays

     Boom Systems, Stable Structures, Antenna Systems and Mechanisms

     Rigid-Panel, Flexible-Blanket, and Concentrator Systems

• Innovative mechanical/structural and solar array design
• Production of repeatable, deployable, stable structures & solar arrays
• Technology development approach

In the aerospace industry ABLE Engineering Inc. (ABLE) is the leading independent supplier of deployable structures, providing hardware for NASA, the military and nearly every major aerospace prime contractor. ABLE produces deployable booms, solar arrays, antenna structures, and many other aerospace mechanisms while continuing to maintain a 100% in-flight success rate.

Founded in 1975, with the goal of exceeding customer expectations for performance, quality, and service, ABLE has leveraged its initial CoilABLE deployment structure into a multiple product line. The foundation of ABLE’s business approach is the innovation and creativity of our engineers and support people which provide the basis for developing truly unique, advanced state-of-the-art mechanical products and solar arrays. Our hands-on approach for developing these products is also unique in that each individual has the opportunity (and is encouraged) to gain knowledge by actually working with the hardware throughout the program.

ABLE continues to develop deployable systems for next generation spacecraft including solar arrays for the next block of GPS satellites, ultra lightweight solar sails to provide near unlimited spacecraft propulsion for certain scientific missions, large deployable trusses for future space based radar and optical systems, and large deployable masts for NASA’s new nuclear initiative, Project Prometheus. Deployable structures from ABLE have flown on numerous spacecraft that have traveled throughout our solar system, including the Galileo, Cassini, Lunar Prospector and the Mars Sojourner missions.

The strengths of our people provide the foundation from which our core competencies have grown. The passion that we have for our products spur initiative to create new products with continued attention to detail. Our commitment to customer satisfaction and the integrity that we bring to our business approach provides our customers with the confidence that their products will be delivered on time and will meet or exceed their mission requirements.