AAC Omnisys AB
AAC Omnisys, part of Swedish company AAC Clyde Space AB, engineer and manufacture cuttingedge bespoke scientific instruments for advanced science applications. We have over three decades of experience in developing advanced payloads and pioneering high-performance electronics, from our world-class sensors, power systems, electrochemical instruments to optical instruments.AAC Omnisys are building radio astronomy receivers for the SKA Observatory. SKAO is a publicly funded intergovernmental organisation that is building two of the world’s largest radio telescopes, SKA-Mid in South Africa and SKA-Low in Australia.
AAC Omnisys developed an innovative scientific weather payload for the European Space Agency’s Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS). The passive microwave radiometer will provide temperature and humidity measurements of the atmospheric layers, this data will be used for Numerical Weather Prediction and Nowcasting.
We are long-term partners with a number of leading institutes in the space industry including the ALMA radio astronomy facility in Chile. This 16-year partnership is the result of a contract awarded to us as the main supplier of Water Vapour Radiometers (58 in total), one for each of the antennas at the European Southern Observatory ALMA telescope in Chile.
Our team developed the Sub-millimeter Wave Instrument (SWI) onboard the European Space Agency’s Jupiter mission JUICE, which launched April 2023. ESA JUICE is the first large-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme.
Core Competencies
- We are a world leader in advanced payload development for New Space with a particular focus on weather payloads, set to grow strongly as new technology supports dramatically improved forecasts.-
- Our extensive heritage working alongside the scientific community developing and manufacturing complete instrument systems means we have a unique understanding of scientific instruments on a systems level.
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- Omnisys has world leading experience in high frequency micro- and millimetre wave instruments, electronics design, instrument control, power electronics, optical measurement systems, measurement software and mechanical structures.
Industry Sectors
- Space- Big Science
References
- SKA Mid Band 1 Single Pixel Feed (customer SKAO)- Payload prime Arctic Weather Satellite (customer OHB Sweden/ESA)
- Complete optical payload for the MATS satellite (customer: Swedish National Space Board)
- Front-end components and spectrometer for the Sub Millimetre Wave Instrument (SWI) on JUICE (customer: ESA)
- Front-end receivers for METOP SG, weather satellites (customer: Airbus Defence and Space)
- Cryogenic front end feeds for VLBI/VGOS radio telescopes (customer: Wettzell telescope and Toyo Corporation)
- Water vapour radiometers for the ALMA telescope in Chile (customer: ESO)
- Phase lock system to the Japanese SMILES mission (customer: JAXA)
- PCDUs for the SMART-1 moon probe (customer: ESA) and PRISMA satellites (customer: Swedish Space Corporation)
- Microwave instruments to the Odin satellite (customer: Swedish Space Corporation)
- PCDUs for the SMART-1 moon probe (customer: ESA) and PRISMA satellites (customer: Swedish Space Corporation)
Company size
SmallProcurement code(s)
- Electronics and radio frequency
- Optics and photonics
- Vacuum and low temperature