KEYNOTE TALKS
“A retrospective of some key European achievements in the domain of Spacecraft On-board Data Handling and Data Processing”, Remi Roques, Airbus Defence and Space
About the Keynote: Taking the best of dramatically increasing capabilities of on-ground computing solutions while sustaining the space environment and operating with scarce physical sources has been the continuous challenge of spacecraft on-board data handling and processing over the last three decades. The speech will present a retrospective of some key European achievements and will highlight sometimes unexpected converging trends between classical satellites, space infrastructures, launchers and large constellations.
About the Presenter: Remi Roques is Senior Expert Avionics and on-board data handling major spacecraft component manager at Airbus DS Space Systems. His career started in network protocol development research and was followed by many years on the European segment of the ISS (Columbus laboratory, ISS payloads) as system engineer and project manager. He then played an active role in the definition and deployment of several generations of Airbus product lines for data management and processing chains serving both institutional and commercial domains.
About the Keynote: The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is the first aircraft to operate from the surface of another planet, having travelled to Mars as part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. In this talk, we will look back at the development of Ingenuity, the ongoing flight operations on Mars, and the impact that Ingenuity has had on the future of Mars exploration. We will focus on key technologies that Ingenuity has pioneered, including the use of commercial off-the-shelf electronics in a planetary exploration context.
About the Presenter: Håvard Grip is a Robotics Technologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. He led the development of Ingenuity’s Aerodynamics & Flight Control system and served as Chief Pilot during Ingenuity’s first 37 flights. He is currently the Chief Engineer of Autonomy & Aerial Flight for the Mars Sample Recovery Helicopters, part of the joint NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign.
About the Key Note: With the megatrend of digitalization of satellites, the Space industry is jumping into the Moore’s law.If Personal Computers coming into everyone’s home and now powerful Smartphone being in everyone’s hands have fully enjoy the Moore’s Law dynamic for decades, the Space industry is now facing a new paradigm of exponential development cost trend, increasing security breaches and challenges to secure critical technologies supply. The speech will present the dynamic of computing platform technologies of interest for the European Space industry.
About the Presenter: Francois Martin is a senior semiconductor expert at STMicroelectronics who created in 2016, a dedicated ASIC activity, addressing the Space & Defense market, with a primary focus on European critical projects & programs. After more decades spent introducing innovative Bicmos technologies into mobile phones, he joined the core team that brought the innovative FD-SOI technology to several markets, from smartphone to Satellites processing equipments.
About the Presenter: As the CEO and founder of Aerospacelab, Benoît Deper has been at the helm of the company since 2018. With his recognized experience in the space industry and his knowledge of the major players, this entrepreneur quickly succeeded in gaining the support of solid investors such as Airbus Ventures.
After graduating from UC Louvain's École polytechnique de Louvain (EPL), Benoît Deper first joined the ranks of two emblematic institutions in the sector: NASA and its European counterpart, ESA, for three years, before going on to become CTO of a Swiss company specializing in space launch, Swiss Space Systems (S3).
In 2018, Benoît embarked on the great entrepreneurial adventure as he created Aerospacelab. Since then, the company headquartered nearby Brussels (Mont-Saint-Guibert) is steadily increasing and has now over 200 employees. What's next? The inauguration of Aerospacelab’s megafactory in 2025!
emblematic institutions in the sector: NASA and its European counterpart, ESA, for three years, before going on to become CTO of a Swiss company specializing in space launch, Swiss Space Systems (S3). A career start marked by an entry into NASA's coveted "Ames" ecosystem, the cradle of many aerospace unicorns including American superstar, Planet.
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