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Radio Technologies for Broadband Connectivity in a Rapidly Evolving Space Ecosystem: Innovating Agility, Throughput, Power, Size and Cost

Description du projet

Redéfinir les technologies radio pour l’espace

Dans le paysage en évolution rapide des services et des technologies liés à l’espace, il est devenu urgent de réinventer les technologies radio pour l’espace. Les signaux radio constituent l’épine dorsale des services de radiodiffusion, de communication et de navigation par satellite, en plus de jouer un rôle essentiel dans les instruments d’observation de la Terre. Cependant, la demande sans cesse croissante de réduction des coûts, d’amélioration du débit, de l’agilité, du volume/masse et de la consommation d’énergie nécessite un changement de paradigme. Dans ce contexte, le projet REVOLVE, financé par l’UE, encouragera une approche pluridisciplinaire et remettra en question les pratiques traditionnelles afin de former une nouvelle génération de chercheurs et d’ingénieurs hautement qualifiés. Alors que l’écosystème spatial entre dans une nouvelle ère, ils seront en mesure de repenser les approches actuelles et d’inventer de nouveaux concepts et de nouvelles technologies radio pour l’espace.

Objectif

Radio signals are core to space systems and services; they are the backbone of satellite broadcasting & communications and further represent the primary underpinning technology of the nearly ubiquitous space-based radio navigation services as well as a large number of Earth observation instruments. Radio technologies are therefore central in defining the investment return for a wide range of missions and reflect to a significant fraction of the combined space and ground segment infrastructure. As the frightening rates of concurrent advances in space-related services, business models and technologies are driving the space ecosystem to a new age, the need to re-invent radio technologies for space is becoming increasingly urgent; while the sector is proactively looking for the next game changer, a whole new class of emerging and forecasted missions place urgent demands for drastic reduction in cost with a concurrent radical improvement in throughput, agility, volume/mass and power consumption.
This paradigm shift dictates an acute need of highly trained researchers and engineers with a broad set of skills and abilities that extend across and beyond conventional boundaries, enabling them to re-think current approaches and pioneer fresh concepts and radio technologies for space. Recognising this urgent need, REVOLVE brings together a world-leading consortium of 4 industrial and 2 academic beneficiaries aiming to challenge conventional practice in a training network formed around the following five pillars; P1: excellent science & engineering; P2: cross-fertilisation within and between sectors and technologies; P3: application-focused R&D; P4: innovation-centred training, and; P5: promote career acceleration and fulfil personal potential.

Coordinateur

HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 614 897,73
Adresse
Riccarton
EH14 4AS Edinburgh
Royaume-Uni

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Région
Scotland Eastern Scotland Edinburgh
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 614 897,73

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