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Miura Nexus: Physics-Informed Machine Learning Technology: A Use Case in Optimal Process Design.

Miura Nexus: Physics-Informed Machine Learning Technology: A Use Case in Optimal Process Design.

Physical simulation is a powerful but time-consuming tool for engineers. Both data generation and analysis are time intensive – the iterative process requires many cycles to define a viable solution.

The rgenerated results are difficult to evaluate, visualise and communicate. In addition, physical simulations in aerospace industrial processes, especially with complex engineering components and advanced materials, lead to significant variations that make it difficult to predict production quality prior to implementation.

Miura aims to overcome these challenges in development and high-end manufacturing processes by using PIML technology to develop a predictive quality analysis tool. This tool supports simulation engineers and factory operators in making informed decisions.

By using this technology, Miura provides an in-depth and physically based simulation of part quality that is particularly suited to manufacturing processes that involve complex physical transformations.

Benefits:

  • Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) technology to help simulation engineers make improved decisions
  • Proprietary technology to accelerate design exploration and improve process design
  • Real-time tablet performance
  • Engineers and operators can use the generated models as predictive components integrated into their workstations
  • These models not only predict part quality, but also provide recommendations for optimal process parameters for each part

Miura Nexus
Miura Simulation
Jordi Gómez Silla
jgomez@miurasimulation.com

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Imaging Technology (PAIS) That Allows Very High Resolution Visable Imagery (10cm) from Low-Cost Satellites

Imaging Technology (PAIS) That Allows Very High Resolution Visable Imagery (10cm) from Low-Cost Satellites

Satellite imagery with a resolution of 10 cm is currently not commercially available. Such a high resolution can only be achieved with very expensive satellites, which cannot be scaled up to a cost-effective constellation with global monitoring capabilities.

Remondo is developing an innovative imaging technology that can achieve this very high resolution (10 cm) using low-cost satellites in LEO. While the best commercial satellites currently have a resolution of 30 cm and exceed costs of several hundred million EUR, the cost of a single satellite in this case is 2 orders of magnitude lower. This makes it possible to build a large constellation that can provide global, persistent monitoring for multiple applications. This will break the current boundaries of the entire Earth observation market and thus enables new applications.

Benefits:

  • High-resolution satellite imagery (10 cm) at a cost saving of 2 orders of magnitude per satellite compared to current approaches
  • Enabling the cost-efficient establishment of a global satellite constellation for daily coverage of high-accuracy Earth observation data
  • Facilitation of new applications and use cases with Earth observation data

Remondo
Ido Priel
priel.ido@remondo.com

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eClypse: Onboard, Tamper-Proof Cyber Security Intrusion Detection for Satellites with Ground Segment Telemetry

eClypse: Onboard, Tamper-Proof Cyber Security Intrusion Detection for Satellites with Ground Segment Telemetry

Satellites are an essential part of our critical infrastructure, providing services such as navigation, communication and Earth Observation. Recent cybersecurity challenges in the telecom supply chain and a rising number of criminal and state-sponsored actors are seeking to disrupt communications demonstrate: There is no secure communications infrastructure without adequate cyber defences.

DISC has developed a hardware-based intrusion detection module for satellites called eClypse. It requires no processing or storage resources on the satellite and cannot be manipulated by an attacker. The development of this TRL6 prototype was supported by innovation funding from the Canadian Department of National Defence. It has been proven in a Magellan Aerospace laboratory and, as a result of our development and security design process, can be integrated into any satellite platform.

The next step for DISC is to create a secure satellite prototype ready for a space mission. This will take eClypse to TRL8, ready for a subsequent mission at TRL9.

Benefits

  • Enhanced cyber-security and privacy for all users of satellite services
  • Can be integrated into any satellite platform
  • Enables platform operators to continuously monitor the internal security status of their platform
  • Does not require processing or storage resources
  • Hardware-based approach enables protection against remote tampering by 3rd party actors

eClypse
Dominant Information Solutions Canada (DISC)
Marc Kneppers
marc@dominantisc.ca

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ROBI – The Radiation Monitor

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ROBI – The Radiation Monitor

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Sustained exposure to high-energy radiation can cause significant damage to both human and spacecraft life in space. Understanding the effects of radiation, as well as developing technology to counter its effects, necessitates a thorough understanding of the radiation environment.
The current capability allows us to study radiation around the near-Earth environment through statistical and analytical models. However, there is a paucity of empirical data that can aid accurate assessment of the environment. Digantara intends to fill this gap through actionable intelligence by measuring proton fluence and, as a result, proton radiation in near-real-time using in-situ radiation monitors. Digantara is developing ROBI – Radiation Monitor. The name ROBI means ‚Sun‘ in Sanskrit/Bengali, signifying the extensive presence of protons in space. ROBI is a proton fluence monitor that measures proton flux in real time. High-energy protons account for 95% of any solar event. Thus, measuring proton fluence is a good measure of ionising radiation in the near-Earth environment.

Benefits:

  • Miniaturised device: ultra-compact, extremely adaptable
  • Ultra-low power consumption
  • Digital output eliminates the need for supporting circuitry
  • Diverse applications from the medical sector to human space flight

Digantara
Anirudh Sharma
anirudh.sharma@digantara.co.in
digantara.co.in

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From looking for life on Mars to saving lives on Earth

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From looking for life on Mars to saving lives on Earth

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Every year, 15 million babies are born prematurely and 1 million die even though 75% could have been saved if they had been given proper care. However, modern neonatal care is too complex and costly to be given to all, and simpler, safer, and cheaper medical technology must be developed to end preventable child mortality. A good example of this need is blood gas monitoring, which is an important method to monitor the health of preterm infants, but suffers from considerable complexity and safety problems that limit its usefulness. For example, it requires the skin to be heated to harmful levels and needs to be attached with strong adhesives that risk tearing the skin. We use patented gas sensor technology that we initially developed to look for signs of past or present life on Mars to perform blood gas monitoring in a completely novel way. Thanks to this sensor’s unique properties, our prototype requires neither heating nor adhesives to perform the measurements and, hence, can facilitate both safer and simpler monitoring of the infants’ health.

Benefits:

  • Gas sensor for planetary exploration that found use in neonatal care
  • Unique features enable the removal of harmful practices in conventional solutions
  • Shows how space technology can create simpler, safer, and more accessible neonatal care

Fourth State Systems
Anders Ajaxon Persson
anders@fourthstatesystems.se
fourthstatesystems.se

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Graphene mirrors for lightweight optical systems

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Graphene mirrors for lightweight optical systems

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Aerospace mirrors need to perform throughout the system cycle under extreme conditions, although that comes at a price: heavy components that are not easy to substitute without introducing compromises in their specifications. Reflective films are an alternative to bulky mirrors, but they are mechanically fragile and have rough surfaces. SCALE Nanotech’s graphene micro-membrane technology offers a solution: G-Mirror©, an ultra-lightweight nanofilm that leverages the outperforming mechanical, optical and thermal properties of graphene material, while enabling cheap scale-up for its size and flexible shape (flat or curved). Our USP goes with our name: we SCALE up Nanotech. With G-Mirrors, graphene goes big or stays home: its size scalability and low mass will reduce payload costs, while its multipurpose nature allows for tailored solutions that tackle the specific applications of our customers with minimal impact on our manufacturing costs.

Benefits:

  • Ultra-thin and easy to pack (portable)
  • Large area and low mass (low cost)
  • Ultimate breaking strength (robust)
  • Minimal space footprint (clean)
  • Accepts different coatings (functional)

SCALE Nanotech OÜ
Dr Santiago J. Cartamil-Bueno
cartamil@scalenano.tech
Dr Barbara Núñez Fernández
bnunez@atrago.net
scalenano.tech

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ALReCo – Orbit Recycling’s new composite material for sustainable Moon exploration

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ALReCo – Orbit Recycling’s new composite material for sustainable Moon exploration

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Humans are heading back to the Moon. Artemis and the Lunar Gateway programme are on their way and the next step will be the lunar ground station. But one major problem for a sustainable outpost on the Moon remains: Moon dust (regolith) doesn’t have the right material properties to either store energy efficiently or to be an ideal construction material. The result would be to transport massive quantities of material from the Earth. Orbit Recycling has developed a new composite: ALReCo. Using a unique method, regolith is mixed with material from space debris to enhance its physical properties. ALReCo shows improved thermal capacity and conductivity in order to store energy much better. ALReCo is better suited to construction elements and the integration of aluminium structures, and flanges with regolith parts could become a modular framework for the upcoming Moon base. By turning waste into valuable material, ALReCo reduces not only the amount of space debris but the amount of material that needs to be transported from Earth as well.

Benefits:

  • ALReCo enables a self-paying space debris recycling concept
  • ALReCo reduces material transportation during the construction of the lunar ground station
  • ALReCo offers flexible use cases, from construction elements to energy storage solutions

Orbit Recycling
Frank Koch
fkoch@orbitrecycling.space
www.orbitrecycling.space

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Versatile approach for cloudless optical satellite data

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Versatile approach for cloudless optical satellite data

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In Earth observation, clouds and shadows are the most limiting factors for consistent and up-to-date imagery. While optical satellite data can be retrieved daily, actionable insights are much rarer. To overcome this lack of cloudless data, large identical satellite constellations are required. However, this only improves one’s chance of actionable insights while ignoring the root cause. Less than perfect data is still not utilised in this process and is often even difficult to identify. ClearSky Vision addresses these problems by integrating data from various missions (Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Landsat 8, and more) while using a novel neural network to predict urban and landscape changes underneath the cloud cover. This data fusion process is repeatable on different satellites. This allows for more consistent and frequent retrieval of multi-spectral cloudless satellite imagery and indices that are crucial to improved time-series analysis and anomaly detection. Satellites with different instruments and revisit speeds can be utilised in synergy, thereby combining the best features of different satellites.

Benefits:

  • The most up-to-date cloudless optical imagery (updated daily)
  • Enables utilisation of multiple different satellites for the same application
  • Enables affordable continuous monitoring for large areas
  • Highly versatile and efficient data fusion process
  • Never work with cloud masks again!

ClearSky Vision
Morten Fjord Pedersen
mfp@clearsky.vision
Malthe Dahl Jensen
mdj@clearsky.vision
www.clearsky.vision

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DigiFarm – detecting the world’s most accurate field boundaries to power precision agriculture

DigiFarm – detecting the world’s most accurate field boundaries to power precision agriculture

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All precision agriculture services start with accurate field boundaries and seeded acres. Unfortunately, the problem is that one is making critical decisions based on inaccurate data, cadastral field boundary data, which is affecting the entire agricultural value chain. DigiFarm has spent the last two years developing a deep-resolution algorithm for Sentinel-2 imagery to increase image resolution by 10x from 10m to 1m, coupled with a deep neural network model to automatically detect field boundaries on a large scale. DigiFarm has delineated over 15 million ha across the world and has achieved an average (IoU) accuracy of above 0.96, which represents up to 20% greater accuracy than existing cadastral map data. DigiFarm delivers four key models to B2B and B2G clients through various API endpoints, including: automatic field boundary detection (and seeded acres), deep resolution of Sentinel-2 at 1m resolution on demand, automatic delineation of in-field productivity zones and crop classification, the ability to automatically detect field boundaries (seeded acres) using deep neural network models and super-high-resolution satellite imagery.

Benefits:

  • Deep neural network model to delineate field boundaries and seeded acres
  • Deep neural network model for the deep resolution of Sentinel-2 (10x) to 1m per pixel resolution, achieving sub-metre georeference accuracy
  • Packaged products in APIs with simple integration and setup
  • Easy SaaS pricing for B2B and B2G clients starting at EUR 0.03 per hectare/year

DigiFarm AS
Nils Helset, Konstantin Varik
nils@digifarm.io
konstantin@digifarm.io
www.digifarm.io

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AlphaLink – Compound aircraft network

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AlphaLink – Compound aircraft network

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The civil UAV market with a worldwide market volume of USD 6.56 billion in 2018 is expected to grow to USD 43 billion by 2024*. Market growth in the coming years will be driven by the large number of new commercial applications, in particular by the use of unmanned stratospheric flight systems for telecommunications and Earth observation services. For perennial operation at high altitudes, these aircraft require an extremely large wingspan with the lowest possible structural weight. When flying in the troposphere, conventional aircraft configurations face a particular risk that greater turbulences could lead to cracks and fractures in the aircraft structure. The Berlin-based company AlphaLink Engineering GmbH is currently developing a compound aircraft that can solve this structural-mechanical lightweight construction dilemma by connecting multiple aircraft modules at their wingtips through mechanical
joints. After intensive research at Technische Universität Berlin, the patented technology is now being tested by AlphaLink in the form of test vehicles and flight trials. The compound aircraft is the first electrically powered stratospheric aircraft that achieves both long operating times and high payloads.

* SESAR, European ATM Master Plan, Roadmap for the safe integration of drones into all classes of airspace, 2018

Benefits:

  • Secure, unmanned operation for low-cost Internet access in remote areas
  • First flying platform with a modular approach
  • Technology is fully scalable as a complement and alternative to satellite systems
  • Year-round operation possible just powered by solar energy
  • Can be used as “flying camera” or “mobile antenna”

AlphaLink Engineering GmbH /
Technische Universität Berlin (TUB)
Alexander Köthe
Berlin, Germany
alexander.koethe@ilr.tu-berlin.de
alphalink.aero

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