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Principal Sponsors
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
ESA is an international organisation with 18 Member States. By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, it can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country.
ESA’s job is to draw up the European space programme and carry it through. ESA's programmes are designed to find out more about Earth, its immediate space environment, our Solar System and the Universe, as well as to develop satellite-based technologies and services, and to promote European industries. ESA also works closely with space organisations outside Europe.
CNES is a pivotal player in Europe’s space programme, and a major source of initiatives and proposals that aim to maintain France and Europe’s competitive edge.
It conceives and executes space programmes with its partners in the scientific community and industry, and is closely involved in many international cooperation programmes—the key to any far-reaching space policy.
Through its ability to innovate and its forward-looking vision, CNES is helping to foster new technologies that will benefit society as a whole, focusing on:
- access to space
- civil applications of space
- sustainable development
- science and technology research
- security and defence
SNPE Matériaux Énergétiques, a subsidiary of the French company GROUPE SNPE, is a world leader for energetic materials for Propulsion. Its operating unit, SNPE Propulsion, handles solid propellant grains design and manufacture for the propulsion of strategic missiles, space launchers. Calling on the innovative skills and expertise of its research center, SNPE Matériaux Énergétiques has developed powerful new molecules to satisfy the fast-evolving requirements not only of the space and defense industries but also for automotive industry.
KEY SPONSORS
A global space industry leader, Astrium offers world-class expertise and extensive prime contractor experience across all sectors of the space business – a complete range of launch capabilities, orbital systems and manned space activities, satellite systems, payloads, ground segment and equipment for a vast range of civil and military applications, and a wide portfolio of space-based services.
Astrium is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EADS, a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2008 Astrium posted a turnover of €4.3 billion. The company employs over 15,000 people in France, Germany, the UK, Spain and the Netherlands.
For almost 60 years, Moog Inc. has provided fluid and motion control systems and components for the aerospace and defense markets. For the space industry, we provide completely integrated systems and components for satellite propulsion and mechanisms, space-rated electronics and actuation systems for both launch and human-rated space vehicles.
Fluid control products include: systems, sub-assembly and components for gas, liquid and electric propulsion. Motion control products include solar array deployment actuators, antenna positioning mechanisms, thrust vector control actuators and fine control actuation systems. Moog also specializes in payload isolation, ground-based test systems, tuned mass dampers for vibration control and jitter reduction control systems.
AMPAC In-Space Propulsion (ISP) is a leading supplier of liquid rocket engines, propulsion systems and gas and liquid feed system components for commercial and defence satellites and launch vehicle applications. With three manufacturing and test facilities in Europe, and facilities at Niagara Falls, New York, AMPAC-ISP is ideally situated to support both international and US markets. Engineering capabilities include system thermal and structural analysis, flow analysis, dynamic testing (vibration) of propellant-loaded systems and system hot-fire at altitude. ISP Europe, with headquarters at Dublin Ireland, provides key system components for telecommunications satellite platforms, high-strength structural components for the Ariane V main engine, and orbit insertion and station keeping engines, for an international customer base. ISP Europe maintains a highly skilled staff of engineers and technicians, and has launched development of high-performance low-cost components for the European market.
ECAPS, founded in 2000, is an innovative company with focus on High Performance Green Propulsion based products for space applications. ECAPS innovations will enable simplified access to space for satellite and launcher systems.
ECAPS holds a number of patents worldwide for a family of ADN (Ammonium DiNitramide) based propellants, catalyst, thruster design and manufacturing methods. The storable monopropellant LMP-103S is offering higher performance and reduced hazards (i.e. low sensitivity, non-carcinogenic, low toxicity and environmentally benign) in comparison with hydrazine. LMP-103S has up to 6 % higher theoretical specific impulse and 24% higher density as compared to hydrazine, thus improving the density impulse up to +30 %. The improved density impulse is of major importance for the accommodation of the propulsion system on a small spacecraft or for prolonging mission times for a fixed tank volume.
The higher performance and simplified handling and transport due to reduced hazards results in lower overall mission costs.
The key resource of ECAPS is our highly skilled engineers and researchers with a proven track record to develop, manufacture and deliver propulsion components and systems. ECAPS has its development and hardware manufacturing facilities in Solna in the greater Stockholm area, Sweden.
Be ready for the next level of propulsion, powered by ECAPS.
NanoSpace is an innovative company with focus on MEMS*-based products for space applications. The key resource of NanoSpace is our highly skilled researchers and engineers with a proven track record to develop, manufacture and deliver components and subsystems to satellites.
NanoSpace is currently developing a number of novel products:
- A miniaturized cold gas propulsion system for satellites
- A miniaturized xenon flow control system for Ion engines
- A novel propellant gauging system for spacecraft
- A number of components such as valves, filters, sensors and other devices based on MEMS technology.
Several of our products are demonstrated in space for the first time onboard the Prisma satellites in 2010.
NanoSpace vision is to become a recognized supplier of novel space qualified products based on innovative thinking and solid knowledge from both MEMS and space industry.
NanoSpace is part of the Swedish Space Corporation group with a track record including 30 years of space activities - development, manufacturing and operation of six satellites in earth orbit, more than 500 sounding rocket launches and much more.
NanoSpace has an ever increasing patent portfolio and is certified according to ISO 9001:2008.
Additional Sponsors
Alta SpA, Italy, is a leading European SME in the Aerospace Propulsion Sector, set up in 1999 as a spin-off of the University of Pisa to commercialize a heritage of over 30 years of RTD activities in the field of Electric Propulsion (EP). Today Alta is a privately owned company which, due to the highly innovative nature of its business, continues to retain close links with the University.
Alta is one of the foremost centres of excellence in the EP and test services sector, employs one of the largest qualified workforces of researchers and engineers in Europe in this niche market, and owns a range of vacuum facilities among the most powerful and varied in Europe.
Albeit EP remains the core business, Alta has been active since 2005 in the development of small chemical thrusters for orbital control based on green propellants.
Expertise in plasma technology and vacuum testing has also led to contracts for the terrestrial application of space technology in fields such as urban waste incineration, plasma treatment of materials and distributed energy co-generation.
On October 1, 2003, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL) and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) were merged into one independent administrative institution to be able to perform all their activities in the aerospace field as one organization, from basic research and development to utilization. The independent administrative institution is the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA.)
Under our corporate message "Reaching for the skies, exploring space," JAXA is pursuing great possibilities in various aerospace fields and is striving to succeed with various research and development missions in order to contribute to the peace and happiness of humankind.