Launcher pyrotechnics

Building on the high quality of its military aircraft hardware, Dassault Aviation has developed components and equipment specifically for Ariane and Vega European launchers, and for the payload fairing of one version of Atlas V.

Building on the high quality of its military aircraft hardware, Dassault Aviation has developed components and equipment specifically for Ariane and Vega European launchers, and for the payload fairing of one version of Atlas V.

In strict compliance with European Space Agency (ESA) and French space agency (CNES) specifications, the Company designs and produces initiators, pyrotechnic lines as well as different pyromechanisms such as: delays, valves, stages and payload fairing separation systems, multi-layer relays, pyrojacks.

For example, for the Ariane 5 launchers, Dassault Aviation manufactures pyrotechnic kits with all necessary equipment from initialization function to final one.