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In-Orbit Demonstration of Services: Unlocking the Potential of Small Satellites
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Deconinck, Florian Taylor, Graeme Brunskill, Chris |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | Authors: Florian Deconinck florian.deconinck@sa.catapult.org.uk Chris Brunskill chris.brunskill@sa.catapult.org.uk Graeme Taylor graeme.taylor@sa.catapult.org.uk The Catapult is an independent, non-for-profit, innovation and technology company, created to foster growth across the economy through the exploitation of space. The Catapult helps organisations make use of and benefit from satellite technologies, and brings together multi-disciplinary teams to generate ideas and solutions ! in an open innovation environment.! Small satellites offer a new paradigm for space compared with ! the historical one. They enable the use of faster innovation cycles ! (3 years vs 15 years lifetime for Geostationary satellites), mass production (100+ vs 20 Geostationary satellites per year) allowing for economies of scale and redundancy at satellite level rather than subsystem level. The potential impact of a mature small satellite sector would be more affordable, frequent and diverse data enabling new services currently not exploited by bigger satellites. This potential is hampered by challenges that can ! be summarised under two main categories. Firstly, a high entry cost and length of time to demonstrate the technology in space, secondly a complex value chain to demonstrate the service enabled by the technology. ! ! Using mutualisation of infrastructure and access to skills ! along the satellite value chain, this concept enables access to space at lower cost and better visibility of the potential markets ! for applications.! The purpose of a one-stop-shop is to support business ideas aiming at demonstrating services using new space assets. This ! will help explore which services are enabled by small satellites. ! As such it is mainly addressed at SMEs with a business opportunity that an application will fulfil. This model would enable SMEs to focus on their unique selling point.! |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
