MISSION

Be one step forward

VISION

Never let a Customer fail

Offer advanced product and reliable engineering solutions

Create value to the Customer

Be a sustainable and a continuously growing company

Research and develop new products every day

VALUES

Quality
Commitment
Trust
Integrity
Excellence
Innovation
Respect
Feedback
Autonomy
Responsibility
Tenacity

HERITAGE

FHP – Frezite High Performance Lda., was founded in March 2007, by a joint-venture with HPS GmbH and INEGI – Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial, in Porto and, known until January 2019 as HPS – High Performance Structures Gestão e Engenharia Lda. In May 2018, the main shares of the company have been bought by FREZITE Group and, since then, FHP becomes a business unit of FREZITE Group.

The main goal of FHP is technology and flight hardware development for high end products across its business areas, namely:
Thermal Hardware: Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) blankets for commercial and scientific spacecrafts and instruments and cryogenic applications (industrial, scientific and automotive); from design, manufacturing to integration phases
Mechanical Hardware: Mechanical Ground Support Equipment (MGSE), ranging from transport containers, lifting and turning devices, integration stands, test adapters, trolleys and mock-ups; from design (CAD, structural and thermal analysis), manufacturing to integration phases
Lightweight Mechanical Components: composite and metallic components for spacecrafts, satellites and instruments subsystems, for instance CFRP/GFRP struts; from design, manufacturing to integration phases
Deployable Structures: long deployable masts and for large deployable reflectors structures; from design, manufacturing to integration phases
Research, Development and Innovation: new materials development (ablators, ceramics…)

LAUNCH LOG

FHP has experience in flight missions
for more than 10 years
  • 2029
    CHIME

    • MLI for Chime Instrument (OHB)

  • 2026
    CIMR
    • Deployable Reflector incl. MLI for LDRS Mechanism (TAS-I)
  • CO2M

    • MLI for CLIM (HPS)

    • MLI for CO2M Platform (OHB)

  • 2025
    ALTIUS
    • MLI for AOTF of ALTIUS main Optical Unit (HPS)
  • PLATO
    • MLI for Camera (OHB)
    • MLI for PLM (OHB)
     
  • SMILE
    • MLI for SXI 
  • 2024
    SENTINEL-4
    • MLI for Instrument (OHB)
  • HERA
    • MGSE Vertical Hoisting Device (OHB-CZ)
    • MLI for HGA (HPS) 
    • MLI for HyperScout Instrument (Cosine)
    • MLI for PALT (Efacec)
    • MLI for PFM (OHB)
  • July ⠀5th
    2023
    H2SAT
    • MLI for S/C (OHB)
  • July ⠀1stㅤ
    EUCLID

    • MLI for Ka-Band Antenna ARA (TAS-ES)
    • GFRP Struts for PLM (ADS-NL)
    • Secondary Structure for STCS (ADS-ES)
    • MGSE Units for PLM Batch 1 MGSE (APCO)
    • MLI for PLM Struts (ADS-F)
    • MLI and MGSE for Sunshield (STI)

  • April 13th
    JUICE
    • MLI for MGAMA (SENER)
    • MLI for MAG Boom (SENER)
    • TDM Mock-up and MGSE (ADS-ES)
     
  • Dec. 13rd
    2022
    MTG
    • MLI for MTO mirrors (LIDAX)
  • April ⠀1st
    EnMAP
    • MLI for TA/IOU and FAD Mechanism (OHB)
    • Optical Baffle (OHB)
     
  • Dec. 21st
    2021
    ISS
    • ANITA2 Instrument Housing  (OHB)
    • MLI for iSIM-90 (Satlantis) 
  • June 30th
    ION
    • MLI for ION (D-Orbit)
  • May 30th
    Constellation
    • MLI for Smallsats (Satellogic)
  • May 20th
    2020
    ISS
    • MLI for IOD (Satlantis) 
  • Feb. 10th
    Solar Orbiter
    • MLI for Thermal Dummies (AST)
  • Oct. 15th
    2019
    CHEOPS
    • MLI for Telescope (Uni. Bern)
  • July 13th
    eROSITA
    • MLI for Telescope (MPE)
  • May 22nd
    2018
    GRACE-FO
    • MLI for LRI (STI)
  • Mar. 14th
    2016
    ExoMars
    • MLI for CASSIS Telescope (Uni. Bern)
    • MLI for NOMAD Instrument (OIP)
    • MLI for Entry Descent Module (TAS-I)
  • Jul. 26th
    2013
    AlphaSat
    • MLI for TDP8 Experiment (Efacec)
  • Feb. 13th
    2012
    VEGA
    • Camera Housing Thermal Protection (Kayser-Threde) 

FACILITIES

Office

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FHP has office space composed by an open space, offices and meeting rooms, including a laboratory and an inspection room.

Bake-out Chamber

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FHP has a bake-out chamber with inner volume of 1 m3 coupled to the cleanroom, featured with a cold trap and monitored by a TQCM, able to bake out any kind of flight hardware, for instance MLI blankets, instruments and electronics.

Assembly Hall

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FHP has an assembly hall with more than 200 m2 suitable for the assemblies of MGSE and structural components.

Cleanroom ISO 5

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FHP has an ISO 5 cleanroom with more than 60 m2 used for the manufacturing of flight hardware, for instance MLI blankets and optical assemblies.

Cleanroom ISO 5

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FHP has an ISO 5 Cleanroom with roughly 60 m2

Cleanroom ISO 5

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FHP has an ISO 5 Cleanroom with roughly 60 m2

Cleanroom ISO 8

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FHP has an ISO 8 cleanroom with more than 60 m2 used for manufacturing and assembly of large hardware in clean conditions.

Cleanroom ISO 8

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FHP has an ISO 8 cleanroom with more than 60 m2 used for manufacturing and assembly of large hardware in clean conditions.

Within FREZITE Group, FHP has access to:

Assembly Hall

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A large assembly hall which allows the assembly of structures with up to 6 meters high and up to 3,2 tons (lifting crane).

CNC Machines

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A wide range of CNC machining machines, including vertical enters with 3 and 5 axis and, grinding machines.

Metrology

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A set of high-performance precision measurement equipment, including a large CMM.

QUALITY

FHP is certified
• ISO 9001(:2015) since 2014
• EN 9100 since 2017