[Space4ReLaunch] Second PhD Day for satellite Earth observation and reusable launchers technologies

Space4ReLaunch (www.space4relaunch.be) is the first ever collaborative project of JRI4Space, a newly formed consortium regrouping research bodies and Wallonia’s major companies in the space industry. This project consists in developing disruptive technologies for Earth observation and reusable launchers thanks to a team of 30 PhDs and Post-docs working in close collaboration with industry.

This project promotes the monitoring of human impact on environment through satellite Earth observation. It regroups the development of the following equipment/technologies:

• Instruments, sensors and imagers: hyperspectral sensors, spectrometers, GNSS-R imaging, IR imaging using compressive sensors, optical surface treatment
• Systems: lightweight telemetry “lab-on-chip”, electrospray propulsion, vibration damping systems, topological optimisation of 3D printed structures (carbon fibre and LBPF), with direct application to actuators.
• Communication: hybrid architecture extending the fraction of the orbit during downloading, quantum key transmissions
• Data processing for agriculture: monitoring water scarcity, ammonia emissions, and agricultural activity for carbon farming.

This project also approaches the development of components for reusable launchers, a key technology to ensure autonomous access to space:

• Reusable cryogenic valves
• Low-cost innovative electric actuators
• Digital twin for hypersonic flight simulation

JRI4Space organises its second PhD Day on the 7th of February 2025 at ULB. It will consist in a presentation of the latest results obtained by students in an open poster session, and a promotion of the space activities of industrials cooperating with our students It will be an opportunity to engage discussion between the researchers and the members of the industry.

The agenda of the PhD Day is described below:

10h30-12h30      Exhibition and posters session

12h30-14h00      Networking lunch

14h00-14h40      Plenary lecture on the state of art of reusable launchers by Patrick Hendrick

14h40-15h20      Plenary lecture on Earth observation at millimeter waves and TeraHz regions by Dimitri Lederer

15h20-16h00      Presentation on ConstellR’s newest thermal infrared monitoring satellite Skybee-1 by Mohamed Iranmanesh

16h00                  Posters session

17h00                 Refreshments

Registration is free, but mandatory, before the February 1st : https://forms.office.com/e/21CUzd5AVB

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