28th Jan
BepiColombo mission conference
7PM - 8:30PM
31st Jan
#NewSpace Startups Forum
2PM - 6PM: forum
6:30PM - 8:30PM: roundtable & cocktail
8:30PM - 9:30PM: Galaxies observation with Unistellar
The #newspace forum gives the unique opportunity to students, doctoral candidates, researchers and industrialists to connect with European new-space startups, incubators, student space centers and governmental space agencies.
29th Jan
École Polytechnique Alumni roundtable (X-Space)
6:30PM - 8:30PM
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Exotrail develops electric propulsion solutions for small satellites. Our safe and efficient Hall Effect Thrusters are helping build agile constellations to revolutionise telecommunication, earth observation, space and science.
Website: https://exotrail.com/
Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions to help companies solve the world’s biggest challenges. We enable companies across a wide range of industries to use space applications and technologies as a tool by removing three main space access barriers: time-consuming paperwork, expensive technology, and overall costs. By rethinking the way a satellite is being developed, procured, manufactured and operated, we allow our customers to benefit from significant cost and time reduction while ensuring reliability across all mission elements. This is driven by our Mass-Customisation Methodology which covers all aspects of a nanosatellite space mission from spacecraft design to testing, from procurement to launch, and from mission definition to operations and orbital data delivery. We also provide services and enabling tools to empower rapid payload development, allowing businesses, research institutions and organizations from across industries to develop their technologies. Founded in July 2015 by Rafael Jordà-Siquier, Open Cosmos employs 42+ people of more than 10 nationalities and is based in the Harwell Campus near Oxford
One hundred times more powerful than conventional consumer telescopes, Unistellar’s eVscope is a revolutionary device that accumulates light to reveal galaxies, nebulae, comets, and much more, in unparalleled crisp and colorful details.
In partnership with the SETI institute, this smart, easy-to-use instrument also allows users to join a worldwide citizen-science network, where anyone can view special astronomical events as they happen, while contributing to scientific discoveries. More than 2,000 people have already preordered an eVscope.
Created in June 2015, Unistellar received a CES Innovation Award at CES Las Vegas 2018 in the Tech for a Better World category. Two of its founders, Arnaud Malvache, Chief Technological Officer, and Antonin Borot, Vice-President Engineering, earned degrees from Ecole Polytechnique.
Website: https://unistellaroptics.com/
Our solutions are fully adaptable to our customers’ needs and allow us to address a wide range of missions for commercial, governmental, scientific or academic applications.
Our offer is based on the work done over the past five years at ISAE-SUPAERO and CNES, where we have developed and implemented some of the best innovations of recent years in the world of CubeSats.
U-Space also offers practical training on CubeSats. This offer allows a team of engineers wishing to learn the space industry to train themselves by leading a CubeSat project from mission analysis to launch in orbit jointly with U-SPACE.
Created by a team of space sector engineers, APSYS, a subsidiary of AIRBUS, is working in the space sector for 33 years.
APSYS is recognized and specialized in value creation through the control of technical, human and operational risks. APSYS offers innovative software and consulting solutions with a high level of scientific and technological integration.
Through its services, APSYS helps its clients in the aerospace, defence, transport, manufacturing and energy sectors to develop sustainable business models.
Designing even more reliable aircraft, securing autonomous vehicles and nuclear installation, anticipating the obsolescence of aging critical systems, analysing transport system vulnerabilities or protecting industrial assets against cyber attacks are all the challenges to which APSYS employees contribute with their expertise everyday.
Website: https://www.apsys-airbus.com
Earthcube is a European New Space company offering monitoring solutions based on an automated analysis of geospatial information. By combining state-of-the art AI technics both in machine learning and computer vision, Earthcube enables its customers to access more precise and better information, thus ensuring faster and less costly interventions. At Earthcube, we aim at providing relevant indicators, directly aligned with our customers’ needs. This is why we have developed off-the-shelf products for our targeted markets: Security & Environment, Defense and Economic intelligence.
Website: https://www.earthcube.eu/
ThrustMe was created to enable an economically and environmentally sustainable space industry. Our core activity is the development and commercialization of unique standalone, fully integrated space propulsion systems for next generation satellites. We also provide high-end engineering services for space and ground applications. We are a highly qualified and multidisciplinary team with expertise in plasma physics, electric propulsion, fluid dynamics, thermal management, digital and power electronics and chemistry.
Website: http://thrustme.fr/
Share My Space (SMS) serves as the primary space debris removal operator that focuses on extending the time of operation of satellites while reducing waste in space.
Our range of activities covers:
- Collision risk modeling and prediction
- Design of vision and capture systems for space debris
- Nanosatellite technologies and control
We are building versatile small satellites in the range of 25 to 50 kg. Our satellites are equipped with a variety of sensors collecting high resolution optical data multiple times per day on selected target areas. Tasking and archive imagery products will be available soon, with an optional extra layer of AI and machine learning to speed up your findings.
Website: http://aerospacelab.be/
At Hybrid Propulsion for Space we build a new innovative rocket engine for microlaunchers, and plan to operate our own in the next few years. Developing our own technology, we improve hybrid propulsion to offer a faster and cheaper access to space.
Our goal is to meet microsatellite launch market growth, nearly 7000 satellites to be launched by 2030.
Website: http://hypr-space.com/
SpaceMeUP is the first collaborative and service platform dedicated to aerospace startups. Our goal is to connect entrepreneurs, space enthusiasts and companies together in order to stimulate the ecosystem. By providing unique crowdfunding and networking solutions, we aim at sustaining the creation and development of innovative projects and early stage startups while placing the individual at the heart of the decisions.
Zero 2 Infinity (“Z2I”) is a space transportation company that is radically simplifying access to Space by leveraging lighter than air (LTA) means to float above most of the atmosphere. It is the only private company in Europe elevating payloads to the Edge of Space. Simultaneously, it is developing a game-changer launcher solution to send small satellites into orbit called BLOOSTAR and mid-term plans include sending people to Near Space through BLOON, its dedicated project for space research and leisure.
Website: http://www.zero2infinity.space
ANYWAVES© designs and manufactures miniature antennas for CubeSats and drones. Based on an expert team and a breakthrough technology, we are developing a new generation of antenna products with better performances, high miniaturization and high quality for various radiofrequency applications: Telecommunication, Navigation, Earth observation, re-entry vehicles and launchers… ANYWAVES, spin-off from the French Space Agency CNES, is the first European pure antenna player for CubeSats and has the ambition to become a global leader in his market.
Website: http://www.anywaves.eu/
The École polytechnique’s Student Space Center gathers students and engineers with a common passion for space. Both an educative cluster and a student association, the institution is led by an executive team composed of students, engineers and researchers from École polytechnique. Student Space Center manages all the École polytechnique’s student space engineering projects, each carried jointly with international laboratories, private and state-owned companies.
ESTACA Space Odyssey (ESO) is a French rocketry club within ESTACA Engineering School. Since 1992, we’ve developed expertise in the construction of experimental rockets, launched at the C’Space international campaign organized by Planète Sciences and CNES each year. However, our skills aren’t limited to rockets, we are also building CanSats (mini satellites), stratospheric balloons or even more exotic projects such as an orbital debris detector, a liquid propulsion engine, or a rocket guidance module.
Website: http://www.eso.estaca.org/
The Centre Spatial Universitaire de Toulouse (CSUT) was created on June 28, 2016, during the Toulouse Space Show, in response to training issues and to coordinate collective research activities.
Taking the form of a scientific interest group (GIS), the centre brings together research organizations (ONERA, LAAS-CNRS and IRAP) and renowned higher education institutions (ISAE-SUPAERO, Université Paul Sabatier, INSA Toulouse, ENAC Toulouse and INP Toulouse).
This grouping is an asset for the center and provides access to the experience and skills of its members.The CSUT is driven by ISAE-SUPAERO and Professor Benedicte Escudier.
The purpose of this collaboration between these different organizations is to enable students (from various backgrounds) and young graduates (national or international) to develop their skills and acquire experience in the space field. With this in mind, the center brings together several projects, using the nanosatellite sector as a testing ground and training support. Two years after its creation, the CSUT has a multidisciplinary team composed of students, research professors and
engineers, working together to achieve the objectives of the centre
More information: http://www.csut.eu
The ESA Business Incubation Centre Nord France (ESA BIC Nord France) is an initiative that opened in 2018, powered by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Ouest BIC Technopoles. The main objectives of ESA BIC is to start and boost innovative companies :
- based on the use of space systems and/or technology for terrestrial applications
- based on the use of terrestrial technologies for space applications
- developing space technologies (space 4.0)
ESA BIC Nord France covers 6 regions in France (Bretagne, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Ile-de-France, Normandie and Pays de la Loire). CNES (French Space Agency) and AStech Paris Région (aerospace competitiveness cluster) also support this initiative by providing technical and scientific expertise.
Website: ESA BIC Centers
The Boosters are a French national initiative and their mission is to promote the use of space data, technologies and infrastructures through added value applications. For this, one of the objectives is to identify and support innovative digital service projects using spatial data, alone or in combination with other types of data.
The Seine Espace Booster, led by ASTech Paris Region competitiveness cluster, gathers 8 entities with different competencies, academics (fields of competencies : Copernicus, telecom and GNSS), competitiveness clusters in different fields (aerospace, mobility, digital/IT, representing more than 2,000 associated entities altogether), and entities working in the development of start-ups.
Roundtable
Rafael JORDA SIQUIER
CEO Open Cosmos
Jose Mariano LOPEZ URDIALES
CEO Zero 2 Infinity
Jerôme VILA
Assistant Director Research & Future Programs, Space Launchers, CNES
David HENRI
CEO Exotrail
Géraldine NAJA
Head of Industrial Policy and Audit Department, ESA
Laurent MARFISI
CEO Unistellar
Ane Aanesland
CEO ThrustMe
Tugdual CEILLIER
Lead Data Scientist, EarthCube
Sandra BUDIMIR
Europe Managing Director at Starburst Aerospace
David ROCHELET
CTO WSpace
Romain LUCKEN
Co-founder Share My Space
Alexandre MANGEOT
CEO HyPr Space
Jean-Jacques DORDAIN
Honored guest
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FAQ
I am not a student or an alumni of Ecole polytechnique, can I join the event ?
Of course, the event is open to anyone curious to discover new opportunities in the space field.
How can I come to the event ?
All the informations are here: https://www.polytechnique.edu/fr/accesetorientation
Why do I need to register to the event ?
The registration is mandatory to access the event and an ID card will be asked to enter the forum and the round-table.