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HOSTmi – Independent, Automated & Global Broker

2nd Place 2019 Airbus Challenge Label

HOSTmi – Independent, Automated & Global Broker

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The traditional space sector does not offer fast, simple, low-cost access to space for the commercially driven new space economy. HOSTmi is the first neutral digital B2B platform for payload owners and space mission providers that matches the growing commercial and scientific demand. This standardised online platform offers efficient, user-friendly, and global mediation of flight options aboard various space-based systems, from suborbital vehicles to deep space platforms. Payload owners receive real-time product and service information, along with the ability to search for potential hosting opportunities for their payload. Besides being available to payload owners for an annual subscription fee, HOSTmi operates on a contract- and success-based commission model for space mission providers. It is thus digitising the global market for space payloads in a scalable fashion.

Benefits:

  • Digital one-stop-shop bundles services such as technical support, financing, and insurance
  • Efficient automated processes significantly reduce time and cost requirements for payload owners
  • Space mission providers will be able to sell their services and unused capacity, which will reduce the direct cost of sales and customer acquisition based on an automated influx of prospects
  • Fosters the transition from conservative value chains to a modern, customer-oriented value network
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HOSTmi GmbH
Pouya Haschemi
Darmstadt, Germany
info@hostmi.space
hostmi.space

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Real-Time Container Tracking and Monitoring

Winner 2019 Airbus Challenge Label

Real-Time Container Tracking and Monitoring

Modern transport and logistics require real-time tracking and monitoring of shipping containers worldwide. Many applications on the market track only the location of the vessel on which a container is transported – not the container itself. Therefore, the tracking signal is lost when the container is transferred between ships, trains, trucks and aircraft, or if it happens to be lost at sea. Callwise Ltd. addresses these issues using an innovative combination of satellite communication and a 5G LoRaWAN (Low Range Wide Area Network) IoT solution. This solution enables real-time tracking and monitoring of individual shipping containers from start to finish during multimodal transport. The concept is based on a novel architecture in which satellite and cellular tracking is combined with LoRaWAN tracking and monitoring of individual shipping containers. Callwise Ltd. is targeting logistics and shipping companies that can offer this end-to-end solution to customers as a value-added service in their product portfolios. Furthermore, the system is able to generate alerts for a wide range of events (unauthorised door opening, deviation from a predefined route, changes in container temperature, etc.) and also track down containers lost at sea.

Benefits:

  • Real-time location information on shipping containers from start to finish
  • Ability to monitor several parameters inside containers (e.g. temperature, air pressure, air moisture)
  • Ability to trace containers that are lost at sea
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Callwise Ltd.
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
Dr Roland Weesie
www.callwise.eu
roland.weesie@gmail.com

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MSP

MSP
Winner 2017 Airbus Defence and Space Challenge Label

MSP: Advanced Modular Production of Microsatellites

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To keep up with the emerging requirements of mass production, mega-constellations and formations of micro­satellites one needs innovative lest concepts and production processes. Modern manufacturing techniques from the realm of lndustry 4.0 can open the door to significant productivity gains in high-volume satellite production. The Zentrum für Telematik e.V. (Würzburg) is working on transferring new methods and tools for satellite production into the space sector. The submitted idea is specifically geared towards human­robot collaboration based on the use of a lightweight robot.

Benefits:

  •  Integrated testing and production systems increase lot sizes and quality
  • Modularisation and standardisation in electronic production reduces overall system complexity, which also simplifies the production process
  • Testing based on smart components reduces production costs
Klaus Schilling

Zentrum für Telematik (ZfT)
Würzburg, Germany
Prof Dr Klaus Schilling
www.telematik-zentrum.de
info@telemotik-zentrum.de

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Golden Fleece – In-Space Nanometal 2D Printing Demonstration

Golden Fleece
3rd Place Airbus Challenge

Golden Fleece – In-Space Nanometal 2D Printing Demonstration

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Golden Fleece is an intelligent solar sail concept used for spacecraft propulsion. ABM Space and AMEPOX Microelectronics developed a production process with a 2D-printing technology, allowing the solar sail to be covered with in-situ nanometal ink to place electronic circuits on the sail substrate. Nanometal has outstanding and diversified mechanical, thermal and electrical properties which can be used for various applications in the field of space materials. The development of this 2D-printing method will facilitate in-orbit production and utilisation of metals gained in the future, particularly in-situ from the Moon and asteroids. The technology enables flexible production in space, spare parts production from lightweight material and mass production from future in-situ resources.

Benefits

  • Flexibility of electronics production in space
  • Flexibility of production of lightweight structures in space
  • Nanosilver as a biocide allows sterile structures and reductions in cleanroom costs
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ABM Space sp. z o.o. CCO
Torun, Poland
Mateusz Józefowicz
www.abmspace.com
office@abmspace.com

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FISHinSPACE – Zebrafish Larvae to Study Vertebrate Physiology in Space

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FISHinSPACE – Zebrafish Larvae to Study Vertebrate Physiology in Space

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The Zebrafish larvae are the ideal model to study vertebrate physiology in space and to transfer the results to humans. In the “FISHinSPACE” project, the GIGA – Université de Liège will send a platform for microscopic observation of such zebrafish larvae into space. The device for automatic observation of individual larvae is a cheap and highly efficient system model for studying an entire living organism in space conditions. The biggest benefits of this model are the optimisation of human life in an extreme environment, and the exploitation of the space environment to research common health issues.

Benefits:

  • Zebrafish larvae are highly suitable to study vertebrate physiology under space conditions
  • Exploiting the space environment as a proxy for researching common health issues, such as aging, osteoporosis, or blood circulatory problems
  • Space flight market will benefit as life in extreme environments becomes easier
  • Pharmaceutical industry will benefit from an adaptable platform to develop and test new medicines
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Université de Liège GIGA-Research
Liège, Belgium
Dr Marc Muller
www.giga.uliege.be
m.muller@uliege.be

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OSS4SPACE – Open Sandwich Structures for Space

OSS4SPACE - Open Sandwich Structures for Space
3rd Place 2016 Airbus Challenge Label

OSS4SPACE – Open Sandwich Structures for Space

OSS4SPACE - Open Sandwich Structures for Space

Open Sandwich Structures (OSS) are a new type of free form and full design oriented structural panel technology for the construction of low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites (mega constellations).
Unlike the three constituent (sheet/core/sheet) type of sandwich panels, OSS encompasses a panel structure made of only two material sheets without any addition of core material. Compared to current closed cell panel technology, that leads to reduced material costs, a much simpler production process and a higher productivity for space structures

PLYTechnologies GmbH
Antonio Valente 
antonio.valente@ply.pt

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Laser Communication for Future LEO Constellations

Laser Communication for Future LEO Constellations
Winner 2016 Airbus Challenge Label

Laser Communication for Future LEO Constellations

Laser Communication for Future LEO Constellations

Vialight develops Laser Communication Terminals for future low Earth orbiting (LEO) constellations and Earth observation missions requiring the transmission of large data volumes at rates of up to 10 Gbps over thousands of kilometers.

  • Leader in laser communication systems for stratospheric platforms and ground stations – chosen supplier for large international commercial customers
  • Vialight’s product evolution: aviation > stratosphere > space (inter-satellite, satellite-to-ground)
  • Serial production keeps costs low while ensuring the highest quality product
  • Solutions for: telecommunications, navigation and Earth observation data, ISR applications, Internet of Things, Big Data
  • Fully operational space system on the ISS in 2 years

ViaLight GmbH 
Dr Markus Knapek
info@vialight.de

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Airborne – Realising affordable satellite structures

Airborne - affordable structures
2nd Place 2016 Airbus Challenge Label

Airborne – Realising affordable satellite structures

Airborne - affordable structures

New Space requires drastic cost reduction in spacecraft manufacturing and unprecedented production volume.
Airborne will redefine the process for satellite panel manufacture to cut down to a fraction of today’s cost. Applying disruptive process technologies on highly automated production lines will assure stable quality at high throughput.

Airborne’s smart approach to automation has the following advantages:

  • Low capex
  • Flexible
  • Scalable
  • Transferable
Airborne Aerospace

AIRBORNE AEROSPACE
Sandor Woldendorp IMSc)
s.woldendorp@airbome.nl

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