Description du projet
La réception des données satellitaires passe du matériel au logiciel
La demande de données d’observation de la Terre pour la surveillance de l’environnement, la météorologie et d’autres applications augmente en raison de leur capacité à faire progresser la compréhension et à améliorer la gestion de notre planète et de son environnement. Les modems actuels du segment terrestre ne peuvent pas répondre à l’augmentation des volumes de données, au rythme de l’innovation dans les communications par satellite et aux attentes croissantes en matière d’optimisation des ressources. Le modem Blink, financé par l’UE, vise à remplacer les composants matériels coûteux et difficiles à entretenir actuellement utilisés. Ce modem à large bande, purement logiciel, constitue une solution abordable, évolutive et flexible pour les missions satellitaires de petite et grande envergure. Il rend les stations terrestres dédiées plus fiables, plus faciles à utiliser et plus rentables. En tant que solution logicielle, il s’intègre parfaitement dans le cloud, pour être utilisé dans de nouveaux systèmes et services terrestres pour satellites.
Objectif
It is widely known that key information used in many industries such as meteorology, logistics, navigation, oil and gas, agriculture, ecology and others, comes from space, via Earth observation (EO) satellites. Having this data in a short time frame is becoming essential. Existing ground segment solutions are heavily based on hardware. They are not following technology advances like space hardware do which causes a bottleneck in EO data acquisition: required volume of data is not available quickly or with sufficient value! The objective of this proposal is to provide an innovative, completely software-based data acquisition solution for EO market – Blink, disruptive enough to compete with existing oligopoly in this market segment. The EO market is very interesting as it is being boosted by skyrocketing growth of start-ups in NewSpace industry like SpaceX, OneWeb and Planet, to name a few, and increasing trend of moving from thick hardware solutions towards flexible and dynamic software solutions as well as moving satellite ground systems and services in the cloud environment. The expected project outcome is a Blink device, a software-based solution for EO ground stations which will enable assembling a full performant ground station at a fraction of time and cost that are usual at a time being. This will bring benefit not just to growing segment of start-up companies, but also to big governmental missions worldwide, including Copernicus – the EU flagship mission for Earth observation. Humanitarian missions will also benefit from Blink. Construction of a larger number of ground stations and a faster GS deployment will significantly reduce time to get satellite images of disaster-struck areas. Therefore, rescue teams will be able to act faster, and hence save thousands of lives and homes. The successful implementation of the project, which already successfully passed Phase 1, with the support of the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument will ensure the company’s fast expansion of disruptive innovation for space technology market on EU level and beyond.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorology
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsignal processing
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinateur
10000 ZAGREB
Croatie
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.