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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
COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : NEW PRODUCTS
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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
COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : NEW PRODUCTS
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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : NEW PRODUCTS
• 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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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PROVIDE RESEARCH TOOLS
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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
COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PROVIDE RESEARCH TOOLS
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Produce Earth Observation based Indicators