ARDE is an AS-9100 registered, 100% employee owned, small business, that designs and manufactures high performance spacecraft and missile propulsion components compliant to MIL-STD 1552A, EWR-127-1, SAE/AIAA S-080 and S-081, and ESA standards. We serve an extensive United States and International customer base and are ITAR compliant.

Our core products are:

·         Metal lined Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPVs)

·         High Strength All-Metal Pressure Vessels

·         Positive Expulsion Propellant Tanks

·         Surface Tension Propellant Tanks

·         Pressure Vessel Support Structures.

Integration of propulsion subassemblies, using our precision cleaning and orbital tube weld capabilities, augments our core product activity.

ARDE fabricates metal tanks and structures in Aluminum, Inconel, Steel and Titanium alloys. Our Composite Fabrication, with subcontractor support, includes wet filament winding, pre-preg winding, or hand-layup of pre-preg materials. Carbon, Kevlar, E-glass and hybrid laminations are fabricated depending on the requirements of each application. Primary structural bonding is performed with film or mixed adhesives. Industry unique tooling and processing enhance bond performance above that realized using standard aerospace practice.

Our organization has a top down commitment to customer and program support, regardless of customer or program size. Our product support equals the quality of the product that leaves our factory. Numerous subcontractor awards from NASA and all major spaceflight prime contractors reflect this fact.

ARDE has six decades in the missile and spaceflight business with no in-service incidents. We have shipped over 4000 spaceflight and missile tanks in our history.

We welcome the opportunity to engineer and fabricate a solution for your product application.