Mission - nolle.engineering

Nolle Engineering GmbH is a specialist engineering firm built on aerospace discipline, 3D design and printing, and RF antenna design and measurement services. Based in Bavaria, southern Germany — built to prove performance, not just claim it.

🛠️ What we do

We design and manufacture 3D-printed antennas, deliver RF engineering services, and run an in-house antenna measurement facility. Customers come from the aerospace domain, the licensed amateur radio community, and the private sector.

📋 Product portfolio

A selection of current 3D-printed antenna designs and customer deployments.

Dual helix antenna — S-Band uplink and X-Band downlink — Dual helix antenna, S-Band uplink, X-Band downlink

L-Band RHCP helix feed mounted in test fixture — Dual helix antenna, S-Band uplink, X-Band downlink

📡 Antenna Test Facility

Our in-house Antenna Test Facility is an anechoic measurement field with a full-sphere 3D antenna tracker and standard gain horn references. It covers L, S and C-Band — up to 4.4 GHz — with 1° angular resolution and more than 10,000 measurement points per run.

Every Nolle Engineering antenna is verified here before it ships, and the same facility is offered as a paid measurement service for ham builders, drone and IoT antenna developers, and university research groups. Results are delivered as an interactive HTML report covering 3D gain pattern, axial ratio, half-power beam width and SWR across the swept frequency range.

Book a measurement campaign. Full specifications, sample reports and pricing are on the facility page. Learn more about the Antenna Test Facility →

🏗️ Completed projects and design studies

1 MV Van de Graaff generator — production prototype for science exhibits — 1 MV Van de Graaff generator — science experiment, production prototype

In business since the early 2000s in various forms and names, nolle.engineering brings together a broad set of engineering domains — mechanical, electrical, RF, software — and runs them concurrently on each project. That cross-domain way of working is the company’s core strength.

Six-degree-of-freedom Stewart motion platform — low-cost flight simulator — Six-degree-of-freedom Stewart motion platform — low-cost flight simulation and training

Twenty years in the aerospace domain — mission design, operations, and flight experience on numerous platforms — feed directly into the projects and customer work we take on today.

PRECURSOR satellite thruster firing — mechanical and system engineering consultancy — PRECURSOR satellite — mechanical design and system engineering consultancy

Why this exists

nolle.engineering is driven by curiosity about how things work — and by the conviction that engineering claims should be backed by measurement, not marketing. Mentoring, training, and teaching are part of that: we share knowledge with the next generation of scientists and engineers, in schools, in workshops, and through customer projects that put learners on the bench.