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The motor of space innovation : Collaboration between industry and research institutes

Frank Preud’homme

24-03-2014

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1.Importance of Innovation



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• Economic growth and welfare of a country or region are depending on the competitiveness and the innovation of its economic actors

• In a free market economy innovation is recognised as an important motor for economic growth

• Through innovation new products and services are created as well as more efficient processes. This involves the innovative idea and the transformation of this idea (invention) into a product or process that gets exploited on the market

IMPORTANCE OF INNOVATION



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2.Collaboration in Innovation



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• Different actors with R&D involvement :

• R&D oriented companies

• Strong scientific base

• Government investment in education and research

• Collaboration between companies and research institutes enhances knowledge creation and diffusion

• Objectives of the different actors are different, but complementary

COLLABORATION IN INNOVATION



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• Collaboration university and industry is a kind of Public/ private partnerships

• Advantages for companies :

• Access to recent scientific knowledge

• Experience of researchers

• Access to specailised equipment

• Advantages for researchers :

• Contribution to curricula of researchers

• Tune education more to industry needs

• Possibility for students to collaborate through internship, thesis or PhD

COLLABORATION IN INNOVATION



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3.Collaboration in space



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SPACE RESEARCH

• 5000 people in Belgium

• Important investment



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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PRODUCT OPTIMISATION

• Master thesis, internships

− Master thesis at UCL : Towards a system-on-a-chip control unit for next generation satellites

− Master thesis at Institut Supérieure d’ Aéronautique et de l’Espace : The use of supercapacitors for peak power applications in small spacecrafts

− Master thesis at TU Delft : Trends and patterns of ASIC and FPGA use in European space missions

− Bachelor thesis at KAHO : Integration of a CAN bus in the on-board computer

− Internship of students of AMS (Antwerp Management School)



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• R&D projects

• Research projects IWT & EU

• Industrial and space project business

• Medical projects

• Scientific and technical support for space instruments

COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PRODUCT OPTIMISATION



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The Energetic Particle Telescope : an Academia/Industry Project Example1.Top Level Scientific Requirements - Academia

2.Preliminary Scientific Concepts & Simulations - Academia

3.Implementation/Feasibility Studies – I+A

COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : NEW PRODUCTS



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The Energetic Particle Telescope : an Academia/Industry Project Example4. Review of all ESA (ECSS Standards) & Flight Requirements (many hundreds of requirements) - Industry

5. Detailed Design & Analysis – I+A

6. Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration, Testing (functional & environmental) – I+A




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EPTHighly Innovative Science Class Radiation Spectrometer designed to detect, directly identify and measure the energy of electrons, protons, alpha particles and heavier ions in the space environment.

Contamination-free energetic particle data measurement : the EPT particle discrimination concept allows full discrimination at high energy without using a huge amount of sensor material.

Real-time flux measurement : the EPT can provide real-time (ready for use) flux measurements needed for detailed space weather forecasting.

Modularity : the EPT instrument can be easily reconfigured to fit user’s needs (angle of view, energy ranges and resolution, communication interfaces to spacecraft).

Low power, low mass : for a maximum envelope of 212 (length) x 162 (width) x 128 (height) mm³, the mass of EPT is smaller than 4.6kg and the instrument consumes less than 6W.

Product Example : Energetic Particle Telescope




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• Other examples

• Medusa (with VITO a.o) high resolution multispectral autofocus camera for lightweight HALE UAS

• Urine purification (VITO + RUG)

• Integrated antenna for multi-frequency handheld GNSS equipment for high accuracy (1 cm). IMEC + SEPTENTRIO



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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE

• Development & delivery of scientific equipment

• Space Instruments (Belgian & European centres)

• other research instruments (Mercator, SAHC, Aluminium furnace, PROBA2, PROBA V)

• Spin-offs



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Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT)

Collaboration with the Center for Space Radiations (CSR)

of UCL

Dexterous payload experiment (DEX) Collaboration with Arsalis (UCL Spin Off)

DroptowerCollaboration with

ULB

Collaboration with external R&D parties

COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PROVIDE RESEARCH TOOLS



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Experiment preparation




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PROBA-2•Started as a Technology Demonstrator

•Equiped with 2 sun-observation payloads and a suite of technology demonstrators

•Operational since 2009 and used by ESA and ROB on a daily basis




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PROBA-V Data Products in continuation of SPOT

• P-products: Extracts of a segment along a single orbit

• Synthesis products (merged segments): S1 (daily) and S10 (10-daily)

• Products will be delivered to the Users in

− 1 km grid (in continuation of SPOT/VEGETATION)

− 100-300m grid (improved Vegetation data)

P-product

S1-product S10-product




Produce Earth Observation based Indicators

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