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Solidflow as well as its parent HDES Service & Engineering BV will be present at the Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen from 19 to 21 November 2024. We will bring several Cool Gas Generators with us, among them are the Minos CO2 generator, the new ICARUS type 250 nl CO2 Cool Gas Generator, the micro and nano generators of 5 and 0,2 normal liters CO2 and our oxygen generator products. Sigurd Ravnan, Toby Sap, Shanti Verschoor and Berry Sanders of Solidflow and HDES will be available to answer your questions and to show you our hardware. Ask for us at […]

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HDES S&E will be present at the Industry Space Days at ESTEC on 18 and 19 September. We will be bringing our Cool Gas Generators with us and are open for discussions and talks. The 20 normalliter MINOS generator will be shown there as well as our new 5 normalliter CO2 generator. We can also inform you on our new product, like the oxygen generator and other new and exciting developments. If you want to meet us, contact us via the ISD website and send a meeting request or send an E-mail or Linkedin message to us and we will […]

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On the 5th and 6th of June 2024, Toby Sap, Sigurd Ravnan and Berry Sanders went to Madrid for the kick-off of the ICARUS Horizon Europe project. This project aims at developing and demonstrating an Inflatable Re-entry System with a sounding rocket flight in 2028. HDES S&E is one of the 11 partners in this project and responsible for the inflation system that will make use of  a large Cool Gas Gas generators. During the kick-off the project goals were discussed and re-affirmed and the team members had the first opportunities to meet and discuss among each other. Several technical […]

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HDES will be present at the Space Propulsion 2024 conference in Glasgow from 20 to 23 May. We will present a paper on the MINOS Cool Gas Generator for pressurization of liquid propulsion systems development and testing. This paper will be presented by HDES, but is a joint development of HDES, Bradford Engineering funded by the Netherlands Space Office. The presentation will take place during session 137 on Wednesday 22 May at 15:30. We will also bring our Minos generator and two new products with us, the 3 nl CO2 generator and the micro CO2 CGG, both of which are […]

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On the 10th of April, the Innovation day for the healthy and wounded soldier was held at the Defence complex Ede-Driesprong. During the day, there were different lectures, demonstrations and a small exhibition with stands. The goal was to bring industry en medical personnel together to discuss  and feel how innovations could improve the efficiency, safety and output of their work. HDES / Solidflow was present with its Oxygen Cool Gas generators and to discuss with military personnel how the product could be developed so it provided the best fit for their needs. HDES personnel also visited the Role-1 tent […]

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Recently, a T-Minus sounding rocket was launched from a Dutch military site, nothing unusual one might say, but this time it was a special launch. The launch tower carried an obstruction light of Orga as a passenger experiment to see if these lights would be able to survive a launch. The results were very good, after launch the light was in excellent condition and could directly be re-used. This test was carried out in the framework of a project that HDES and Orga carried out to investigate whether the Orga porducts were interesting for launch sites. T-minus is now considering […]

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On the 25th of January Christophe van der Maat, Deputy Minister for Defence of the Netherlands visited ESTEC, the Gallileo Reference Centre and the Space Business Incubation Center (SBIC). In the SBIC, HDES S&E was one of the companies that was invited to inform the Deputy Minister on their technologies and products. Armanda Hogedoorn and Berry Sanders informed Mr. van der Maat on our ongoing co-operation with the Dutch MoD. HDES, together with the Medical Innovation Team of the Royal Dutch Army, is developing Oxygen Cool Gas Generators to treat wounded military personnel right after the injury has occurred. In […]

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Solidflow BV, a spin-off of HDES Service & Engineering BV was awarded the third prize in the ESA Tech Transfer competition 2023 with its proposal for a Hydrogen Cool Gas Generator for emergency power supplies. The prize will be used to perform preliminary research into the technical and economical feasibility of such a Cool Gas Generator. Hydrogen cool gas generators, like all other Cool Gas Generators, are not pressurised and do not need any maintenance. Therefore they are idealy suited for as a reliable long-term emergency power supply for example for. hospitals or emergency services during natural disasters. The Solidflow […]

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HDES will be present at the Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen from 14 to 16 November. We will bring our Minos generator and two new products with us, the 3 nl CO2 generator and the micro CO2 CGG, both of which are now in development. The Minos generator will be shown on the stand of Bradford  Space (stand no G56), our main partner in the development of this generator and responsible for the system integration into propulsion systems. Sigurd Ravnan and Berry Sanders of HDES will be available to answer your questions and to show you our hardware. Ask […]

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HDES Service & Engineering BV has started commercial offering and deliveries of the MINOS Cool Gas Generators. On 21 September, the first MINOS Cool Gas generators were shipped to our first customers in the Netherlands and Europe. These were Ground test Units of the First Production Batch of the Minos CGG’s and our first commercial products.  Our customers will use these CGG’s for ground testing and product evaluation. The CGG’s are delivered in a transport box with all required documentation. To boost the sales effort us if you are interested and want to receive a quote for your own Minos […]

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