Space Industry
For more than a decade, KENOTOM has specialized in mission and safety-critical embedded systems, building a strong heritage across software development, electronics design, systems engineering, validation, functional safety, and cybersecurity. Originating from the automotive industry and extending to other mission-critical domains such as industrial automation and aviation, the company has gathered extensive experience in highly demanding environments where precision and reliability are non-negotiable. Our software and hardware designs, have been integrated in millions of passenger vehicles and other mission critical devices. KENOTOM is proud to bring its proven expertise to the Space Industry, contributing to advanced, resilient, and future-oriented space technologies.
- OS and Low-Level Software Development for microcontrollers and ASICs: Bare-metal real-time software development, MISRA ECSS-Q-ST-80C, multicore architectures, HW interfacing, device drivers for critical interfaces.
- Application Software & Model Based Development: on-board Systems for power control, motor control & battery management, flash & non-volatile memory control, diagnostics and safety.
- EGSE and HiL/Mil/SiL setups: Specification, setup, commissioning of testing systems using dSPACE devices, system-level modelling and plant simulations of the testing environment, signal conditioning & fault Injection.
- Electronics Design and Validation for Space and Mission-Critical Systems: PCB design, requirements, SPICE simulations, FMEA/FMEDA/DFA/FTA Analyses, space-qualified multi-layer electronics, signal integrity, assembly validation.
- System/Software/Safety Requirements, Architecture & Design: MBSE methodologies, FMEA, hazard analysis, safety and reliability engineering, Interface definitions, functional decompositions.
Hardware Laboratories and Tools
- Three separate HW Labs with scaled Risk Level (Generic Use, Medium Risk, High Risk)
- Access Zones defined according to corporate access control policy
- Two Low Voltage and 1 High Voltage (~600V) Labs
- Equipment: RF Signal generator, Spectrum Analyzer, Thermal Chamber (-65° to +180°C), Oscilloscopes, Multimeters, LV/HV Supplies, Electronic Loads
- DSpace HiL systems
KENOTOM supports the space industry through the following key competencies:
Motor Controllers
Our engineering expertise includes the development of fault-tolerant and hot-redundant motor-driver architectures for mission-critical space mechanisms. These solutions follow a modular HW/SW design approach and are implemented according to ECSS practices, ensuring compliance, reliability, and scalability for space-grade systems.
Battery Management Systems (BMS)
KENOTOM provides solutions for the design and integration of modular, high-reliability Battery Management System architectures for lithium-ion–based energy storage. Our expertise covers safe-operation strategies, performance optimization, lifetime extension, and the development of state-of-the-art measurement, balancing, and energy-management techniques tailored to the stringent requirements of space missions.
Projects
Kenotom is currently leading the following ESA project
ADAS PNT
We combine our ADAS know-how from the automotive industry with our expertise from the space sector in order to propose the direction of the future of PNT systems. Kenotom leads this program. This effort is part of a competitive European Space Agency (ESA) tender, awarded to Kenotom as Prime Contractor, aiming to define the strategic direction of next-generation navigation technologies.