The motor of space innovation :
Collaboration between industry
and research institutes
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Frank Preud’homme
24-03-2014
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Importance of Innovation
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IMPORTANCE OF INNOVATION
• 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
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Collaboration in Innovation
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COLLABORATION IN INNOVATION
• 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
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COLLABORATION IN INNOVATION
• 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
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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 onboard computer
− Internship of students of AMS (Antwerp Management School)
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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PRODUCT
OPTIMISATION
• R&D projects
• Research projects IWT & EU
• Industrial and space project business
• Medical projects
• Scientific and technical support for space instruments
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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : NEW
PRODUCTS
The Energetic Particle Telescope : an Academia/Industry Project Example
1.Top Level Scientific Requirements - Academia
2.Preliminary Scientific Concepts & Simulations - Academia
3.Implementation/Feasibility Studies – I+A
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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : NEW
PRODUCTS
The Energetic Particle Telescope : an Academia/Industry Project Example
4. 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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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : NEW
PRODUCTS
Product Example : Energetic Particle Telescope
EPT
Highly 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.
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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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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PROVIDE
RESEARCH TOOLS
Collaboration with external R&D parties
Energetic Particle Telescope
(EPT)
Collaboration with the Center
for Space Radiations (CSR) of
UCL
Dexterous payload experiment (DEX)
Collaboration with Arsalis (UCL Spin Off)
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Droptower
Collaboration with
ULB
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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PROVIDE
RESEARCH TOOLS
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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PROVIDE
RESEARCH TOOLS
Bot continu bevloeid met
kunstmatig bloed
Op bepaalde tijdstippen aan
trillingen onderworpen
FREQBONE
Force on bone sample
12 stukken bot:
• 6 statisch belast (30N)
• 6 statisch (30N) + dynamisch belast
(3N 30Hz)
T1
T2
T3
T4
T5
30N
Contact
force
0
Time
T1 = Movement of linear actuator until contact force is detected
T2 = Expansion of piezo stack to a preload of 30N on the bone sample
T3 = A dynamic force, a sine of 30 Hz, is superposed on the bone
T4 = Piezo discharge
T5 = Movement of linear actuator to obtain clearance for rotation of load stack
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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PROVIDE
RESEARCH TOOLS
Experiment preparation
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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PROVIDE
RESEARCH TOOLS
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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COLLABORATION AT QINETIQ SPACE : PROVIDE
RESEARCH TOOLS
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
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Produce Earth Observation based
Indicators
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