Flexial's extendable bellows sunshade is designed for space compression. Satellites, spacecraft and missiles face the same two problems: weight and space. A sunshade is non-functional bulk that reduces precious spacecraft volume. Flexial has developed a titanium welded bellows sunshade that stows in less than 1/10th its deployed length. Its natural spring force makes it self-deploying. It is custom engineered to any size from 0.25 to 24.0 inches in diameter. It locks permanently and reliably and will resist 10gs lateral load and remain out of the optical LOS. The locking mechanism cup strap will flex, like a tape measure, for stowing in tight spaces. Flexial has considerable experience with this proven technology and now offers a greatly improved titanium version with greater deployed stiffness and higher stowed flexibility.

The stowed sunshade allows positioning the satellite further into the nose when designed on-axis, or tucks clear of the rocket wall when transverse-mounted. The cup straps that lock the sunshade when extended are highly flexible when collapsed to fit very small spaces. They need not be positioned symmetrically to take advantage of available pockets of space.