Welcome to the Laboratory of Space Technology!
Our Laboratory is part of the Department of Broadband Infocommunications and Electromagnetic Theory at
Budapest University of Technology and Economics. We have a long record in space related hardware and
software development. In the last 50 years our Laboratory built more than 50 equipments in close
co-operation with INTERCOSMOS, AMSAT, ESA and NASA. These projects mainly concerned major subsystems of
satellites. On the basis of our expertise in on-board electronics, we have developed outstanding solutions
for power systems, high frequency communication equipment and remote sensing systems, as well as data
collection, transmission and telemetry systems.
Besides the implementation of simple power supplies, the portfolio of our scientific and engineering
community includes the design and construction of complete power subsystems, including all elements of
primary and secondary power conversion. The series of implemented circuits included Maximum Power Point
Trackers (MPPT), Sequential Switching Shunt Regulators (S3R), Battery Charge Regulators (BCR), Shunt
regulators, Power Processing and Distribution Units with Power Control Units (PPDU and PCU), single and
multiple output converters, limiters, switches and other special high voltage converters, as well as a
PYRO circuit and a Power Processing Unit (PPU) for a Hall effect thruster Electric Propulsion System (EPS).
We have obtained expertise in on-board data collection, transmission and telemetry systems through
the development of various solutions for the fifteen missions in which we have participated. In addition
to the development of on-board electronics, we have also gained experience in the ground segment of space
activities during our more than 35 years of involvement. We are also familiar with additional complementary
services such as vibration, radiation, thermal-vacuum and other tests.
Our most recent participation was in ESA's ESEO (European Student Earth Orbiter) mission, which is one of
the most significant hands-on projects of ESA Academy. The project allowed European university students to
participate in a real space project from the design phase to launch and operations. We phave developed the
Power Distribution Unit (PDU), a fundamental spacecraft subsystem and the Langmuir Probe Experiment (LMP),
a plasma-diagnostic payload.
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