Introduction to Space Applications Services www

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Introduction to Space Applications Services www.spaceapplications.com"
Company Presentation"
February, 2014"
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Space Applications Services NV"
An independent Belgian company founded in 1987, with a subsidiary in Houston, USA and
an office in The Netherlands. Staff of 70, and growing. !
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Our aim is to research and develop innovative technology, solutions and services for the
aerospace and security markets and related industries:!
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•  Research and develop technologies for specific domains or subsystems which
may be used stand alone or integrated within an overall system.!
•  Services to design, develop and integrate scientific payloads, mission critical
systems, facilities and command and control centres. !
•  Services to operate facilities and command and control centres and to train
persons to perform operations.!
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The company capabilities cover system, software and operations engineering and our
activities include manned and unmanned spacecraft, launch/re-entry vehicles, monitor and
control, robotics and information systems.!
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Locations"
Space Applications Services
Noordwijk Office, The
Netherlands!
European Space Research and Technology Centre!
Noordwijk, The Netherlands!
European Astronaut Centre!
Cologne, Germany!
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Aerospace Applications
North America Inc.,
Houston, USA!
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Space Applications Services NV HQ,
Zaventem, Belgium!
Belgian Institute for Space
Aeronomy!
Brussels, Belgium!
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Organisation"
SPACE APPLICATIONS SERVICES NV"
AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS NORTH AMERICA INC"
SOFTWARE &
DATA SYSTEMS"
Avionics & Embedded
Systems!
Control & Data Centres!
Flight Operations!
Robotic Systems!
Earth Observation
Systems!
Ground Operations!
SYSTEMS &
GROUND
SEGMENT"
OPERATIONS"
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Virtual Environments & HMI! SW Engineering Methods! Training & Evaluation!
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Future Projects & Ground Knowledge Management
Segments!
Applications!
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ENGINEERING
SERVICES"
PRODUCT
ASSURANCE"
MARKETING &
BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT"
ADMINISTRATION
FINANCE CONTRACTS
& PERSONNEL"
European Programme for Process & Product
Life & Physical Sciences in Quality Assurance!
Space, System
Safety & Dependability!
Engineering Service!
Mission Science and
Software Product
Utilisation Planning Office
Assurance!
Service!
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Science Coordination
Support Service!
Payload Operations and
Engineering Support!
Crew Training & Simulation!
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Teams"
Systems & Ground Segment!
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Avionics & Embedded Systems: safety critical and on-board software for spacecraft, cockpit and air traffic management.!
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Robotic Systems: including exoskeleton and rover control systems as well as robot navigation, task and path planning.!
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Virtual Environments & HMI: wearable computing and computer aided diagnostic and neuroscience systems including 3D,
Augmented and Virtual Reality, dynamic modelling and simulation as well as audio and haptic applications.!
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Future Projects: space and ground segment system studies to define overall concepts, perform mission analyses and
trade-offs, and establish development plans and costs.!
Software & Data Systems!
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Control & Data Centres: complete ground segment and control centre solutions development and operation, for satellites
and International Space Station (ISS) payloads.!
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Earth Observation Systems: semantic access to large volumes of distributed EO data.!
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Knowledge Management: enterprise and scientific knowledge management solutions, covering:!
–  Data federation, fusion and access.!
–  Knowledge capture, visualization, natural language interaction, decision support.!
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Software Engineering Methods: development of innovative cost effective software engineering techniques."
Operations"
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Operations and Training: end-to-end planning, preparation, implementation and execution of spacecraft and facility
operations and training, including astronaut training.!
Engineering Services"
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Engineering Services: international projects often require the support of highly qualified and expert scientists and
engineers. We provide complete teams to manage, coordinate and execute projects as well as individual experts.!
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Laboratory Facilities"
Avionics"
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Gaisler RASTA avionics development platform with LEON2 CPU, MIL-STD
1553, Ethernet, CAN, SpaceWire and SVGA interfaces.!
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Gaisler LEON4/ATX development platform with STAR-Dundee PCI
SpaceWire MkII board.!
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Both systems support the RTEMS real-time OS.!
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Configurable simulator that provides spacecraft GNC and system parameters!
Robotics"
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Mobile platform with laser range finder!
!and stereo bench!
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Force feedback exoskeleton set up!
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3D simulation environment!
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Control stations with touch screens"
Virtual Environment and Human Machine Interaction!
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Ergonomic mock-ups!
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Wearable systems!
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Tracking technology!
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Human behaviour evaluation!
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VR display e.g HMD, 3D TV!
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OAS Mock-Up Technical Requirements Specification
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User’s Need Presentation
The OAS mock-up consists in a set of elements that provides a representative environment of a cabin
system. The mock-up provides an ergonomic environment with sufficient elements to test,
demonstrate and evaluate on-board systems with representative users, such as astronauts, crew
members, instructors, and others. The mock-up integrates a set of HMI systems with the results of the
activities perform in the previous phases of OAS and ICA project.
The Figure 2-1 shows a concept of the OAS mock-up.
Figure 2-1 OAS Mock-up Concept
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OAS-SA-RQ-006
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Manned Spacecraft!
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Transportation!
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Exploration!
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Infrastructure!
HERMES-APM-MTFF-ATV-COLUMBUS-NODE2-CRV-X-38-CTV-ISS-ATVEV-CSTS-ARV-PLR!
RRLD-FESTIP-ATVDV-X38-EXPERT-IXV!
Launchers & Re-entry
vehicles!
ROGER-PROBA-EarthCARE-SPECTRA-WALES-BIOMASS-TRAQ-PREMIER-FLEX-ASCOPE-CoReH2O-CONEXPRESS-TERRASAR-EXOMARS-MSR!
Unmanned Spacecraft!
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Robotic exploration!
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Earth observation!
ATV-PROBA-GALILEO-ARV-PSPE-ROBOT@CWE!
Command & Control!
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Spacecraft!
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Robots!
SPACELAB-EUROMIR-ARPK-HERMES-SOYUZ-ATV-COLUMBUS-GALILEO!
Operations & Training!
MSL-EPM-FSL-EML-EDR-PCDF-EXGSE-IMPACT-IMPRESS-KUBIK-MARES-SOLAR-EuTEF!
Scientific Payloads!
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Data Sheet"
Employment
Qualifications"
80!
60!
Ph.D."
MSc."
Other"
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20!
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Turnover M€"
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Company Coordinates"
Address:!
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!Space Applications Services NV!
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!Leuvensesteenweg 325!
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!B-1932 Zaventem!
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!BELGIUM!
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Contact in Europe:!
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!Richard Aked, Managing Director, [email protected]!
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!Leif Steinicke, Managing Director, [email protected]!
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!Tel:
! +32 (0)2 - 721.54.84!
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!Fax:
! +32 (0)2 - 721.54.44!
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!URL:
! www.spaceapplications.com!
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Contact in the United States:!
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!Aerospace Applications North America (AANA) Incorporated!
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!18333 Egret Bay Blvd, Houston TX, United States.!
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!Patrick Laport, President, [email protected]!
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!Tel:
! +1 832 - 755.6725 !
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!Fax:
! +1 281 - 244.8545!
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!URL:
! www.aerospaceapplications-na.com!
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Space Weather"
The company is involved in the following contracts with responsibility for Space Weather facilities,
infrastructure, software development and operation:!
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•  SN-I!
•  SN-II!
•  SN-IV!
•  Space Environment Information System-Next Generation!
•  Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre!
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Space Weather: SPENVIS-NG"
SPENVIS-NG: is a framework that allows models, related to
those hazardous factors in the space environment, to be
run in combined and/or iterative modes on a geographically
distributed network of computation nodes.!
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Main responsibility:"
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•  Validating the user and system requirements,!
•  Participating in the design of the system: software
system, model and workflow definition, etc.!
•  Implementing the central node and the model execution
nodes: model execution and coordination, resource
management, user management, plotting facility, etc.!
•  Implementing machine-to-machine interfaces towards
third-party systems,!
•  Implementing business services for the HMI component.!
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Space Weather: VSWMC Phase 1"
Virtual Space Weather Modeling Center (VSWMC): is an ambitious project to
build a framework that couples existing and/or future distributed models to create
the magnetic and particle environment from the surface of the Sun to the Earth's
atmosphere.!
Main responsibility:"
•  Validating the user and system requirements.!
•  Carrying out the architecture design for the future complete system.!
•  Carrying out the detailed design for the prototype.!
•  Implementing the prototype system!
•  Integrating selected models and couplings.!
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LIDAR!
Digital Modelling"
The company models and simulates:!
•  Rendezvous sensor technology behaviours in
dynamic environmental and optical conditions
as well as target characteristics and mission
trajectories.!
•  Capabilities for open and closed-loop tests,
Monte-Carlo tests and HWIL!
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IR thermal!
Optical!
We design and develop digital models for
integrated physics and human physiology
simulations including haptic characteristics.!
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