Crossbeam 2
Glavkosmos
The Crossbeam 2 is a ground support equipment designed for the transshipment and mating of loads, ensuring that permissible load limits are not exceeded during interaction.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 180 kg
- Payload capacity
- 1,000 kg
- Design life
- 10 years
- Lead time
- 9 months
- TRL
- 9
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Purpose
- Transshipment of the load and provision its mating with the receiving part without transferring the loads which exceed the permissible.
- Year of release
- 2015
- Design life
- 10 years
- Lead time
- 9 months
- Flight qualification of the product
- No
- Brief history of flight qualification
- No
- Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements
- Yes
- Load capacity
- up to 1.0 t
- Crossbeam mass
- 180.0 kg
About
The Crossbeam 2 is a specialized piece of equipment designed for the precise transshipment of loads and their subsequent mating with a receiving part. Its primary purpose is to facilitate these operations without transferring loads that exceed permissible limits, thereby protecting the integrity of the components involved. The product was released in 2015 and comes with a guaranteed service life of 10 years. The estimated production and delivery time is 9 months. While there is no flight qualification, the product can be adapted to meet specific customer requirements. It includes a device for kinematic compensation of interacting loads during mating, which is crucial for delicate operations involving large or sensitive space hardware. This crossbeam is suitable for handling loads up to 1.0 tonne.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.