Sector Consortia
The launching of the sector consortia at the CANEUS 2009 Workshops is a result of the success of the pilot projects in 2006. CANEUS is pleased to coordinate Sector Consortia devoted to development in Small Satellites, Fly-by-Wireless, Aerospace Reliability, Devices, and Materials. Anyone in the aerospace community is welcome to become involved in the Consortia by contacting CANEUS. For a complete overview of each Sector and their directors, please refer to the complete list below.
Small Satellites
The CANEUS Small Sat Sector Consortium (SSSC) is an international consortium dedicated to the micro and nano technology implementation, coordination, and standardization of the small (1-100 kg) satellite industry. The SSSC oversees five projects and initiatives dedicated to (1) developing standards so as to ensure international interoperability, (2) identifying launch opportunities and services, (3) providing stakeholder liaison and strategic development, (4) addressing Intellectual Property and ITAR issues in accordance with CANEUS International's broader mission, and (5) organizing launch certification services.
Andrew H. Quintero
Director and Coordinator
The Aerospace Corporation
USA
Small Satellites: Standards Development
The Standards Development initiative aims to provide a platform for developing satellite subsystems standards to ensure interoperability among international partners. This will result in small satellites that are cheaper to develop with a shortened development time to launch.
John Hines
Chair
NASA Ames Research Center
USA
Small Satellites: Launch Services
The Launch Services initiative is mandated to establish a set of specifications consistent with a variety of launch systems and to ensure the compatibility of secondary payloads with these specifications. The initiative aims to provide secondary satellite developers with a current list of candidate launches detailing carrier type, carrying capacity, and key contact information.
Gerard Szatkowski
Chair
United Launch Alliance
USA
Small Satellites: Stakeholder Liaison and Strategic Development
The Stakeholder Liaison and Strategic Development initiative is chartered to compile the necessary critical processes, procedures, and needs documents from the community of SSSC stakeholders. These will ultimately be of value to all stakeholders who aim to benefit from a streamlined international collaboration.
William Edmonson
Chair
North Carolina State University
USA
Small Satellites: Intellectual Property and Export Control
The Intellectual Property and Export Control initiative aims to establish a clear process for defending intellectual property rights and a streamlined process for members of the CANEUS SSSC to resolve export control issues. The goal of the initiative is primarily a clear process outcome. The outcome for intellectual property will be a guideline for how smaller companies can address intellectual property concerns while engaging with larger firms or government agencies. The outcome for all entities will be a clear construct for dealing with export control restricted technologies of interest. Member organizations will greatly benefit from a framework that defines pre-approved technology areas of interest.
Andrew H. Quintero
Chair
The Aerospace Corporation
USA
George Grammas
Chair
Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey, L.L.P.
USA
Small Satellites: Launch Certification
The Launch Certification initiative’s Strategic Work Plan (including mission, goals, and strategies) will be presented and ratified at the CANEUS 2009 Workshops.
Lt. Col. Douglas Taffinder
Chair
U.S. Space Missile Command
USA
Fly-By-Wireless
The CANEUS Fly-by-Wireless Sector Consortium is chartered to precipitate cooperation and partnerships between industry/government customers, systen innovators, and technology developers, while exchanging public and published information on wireless alternatives and new innovations such as no-power sensor-tag systems. Ultimately, this effort will contribute to minimizing cables and connectors across the aerospace industry by providing reliable, lower cost, and higher performance alternatives for a vehicle or program's life cycle.
Rodger Magness
Director and Coordinator
Aerospace Wireless
USA
Fly-By-Wireless: Structural Vehicle Health Monitoring
The CANEUS Structural Vehicle Health Monitoring sub-discipline explores the Nanolithography technique as a flexible and cost-effective method for integrating micro-fluidics with nano-fabrication, thus combining both top-down and bottom-up paradigms. The sub-discipline addresses a critical need for aerospace systems, namely that of rapid materials and devices prototyping at nano-scales.
Robab Safa-Bakhsh
Director and Coordinator
Boeing Phantom Works
USA
Aerospace Reliability
The CANEUS International Reliability Sector Consortium is the steward of the aerospace industry's strategic and technology roadmap for reliability technologies. It provides an international forum for the advancement of reliability issues and technical solutions, and manages an industry portal for members' technologies. The Consortium is the premier advocacy group addressing regulations and the development of standards and certification requirements for RF and other MEMS devices. Membership in the Consortium includes all primary industry stakeholders.
Bruno Foucher
Director and Coordinator
EADS Innovation Works
France
Devices
The CANEUS Devices Sector Consortium coordinates the activities of several sub-disciplines including Harsh Environment Sensors, Optoelectronics, Bio-Astra, and Environmental Monitoring.
Devices: Harsh Environment Sensors
This sub-discipline is mandated to address the key challenge of Harsh Environment Sensors, especially for low volume and high reliability applications in various fields. End-users of the aircraft, spacecraft, and defense industries join technology developers from Europe, Canada, USA, Brazil, and other countries to pool their resources and create a collaborative environment. The focus is on high-risk, high-cost aerospace Harsh Environment Sensors Initiatives.
Jan Suski
Director
MEMSFIELD
France
Nico de Rooij
Director
University of Neuchâtel
Switzerland
Oudea Coumar
Coordinator
TE612, EADS-Astrium Space Transportation
France
Devices: Optoelectronics
The Optoelectronics' sub-discipline's Strategic Work Plan (including mission, goals, and strategies) will be presented and ratified at the CANEUS 2009 Workshops.
Iain McKenzie
Director and Coordinator
European Space Technology & Research Centre
The Netherlands
Devices: Bio-Astra
The Bio-Astra Sub-Discipline aims to explore the feasibility of developing MNT-based devices and instruments for bioastronautics applications. While spin-off applications for these technologies are possible for terrestrial applications, the group adopts a project-based business model, with a 3-year development period to demonstrate system level prototypes. A promising MNT-based product selected for development is a sensor-on-chip (SOC) with novel properties for specific bioastronautics needs.
Sumitra Rajagopalan (TBC)
Director and Coordinator
Bio-Astra Technologies Ltd.
Canada
Devices: Environmental Monitoring
The Environmental Monitoring sub-discipline's Strategic Work Plan (including mission, goals, and strategies) will be presented and ratified at the CANEUS 2009 Workshops.
Meyya Meyyappan
Director
NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology
USA
Jing Li
Coordinator
NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology
USA
Harry Partridge
Coordinator
NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology
USA
Materials
The CANEUS Materials Sector Consortium coordinates the development of a) composite materials for load-bearing applications, structural applications, thermal protection and radiation shielding systems, b) multi-functional composite materials with MNT embedded sensors, c) MEMS-based micro-thrusters, integrated micro-batteries, integrated micro-propulsion for aerospace and defense applications, and (d) micro-storage.
Alain Pignolet (TBC)
Director
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)
Canada
Materials: Micro Energetics
The Micro-Energetics initiative seeks to develop MNT-based products for micro generation and micro propulsion applications. The initiative aims to (a) seek useful energetic material forms on length scales of one NM to one MM, (b) motivate synthesis, assembly, and understanding of energetic materials in small dimensions, (c) promote the development of methodologies leading to safe processing, storage, and handling of micro-energetics, and (d) foster the development of green end-user integratable energetic materials.
John Miller
Director
United States Army Research Laboratory
USA
Edward Schaffer
Division Chief
United States Army Research Laboratory
USA