Consultants from the house sector in additional than 21 international locations met over three days to debate totally different present points on this subject. The main target was on enterprise and lunar and cislunar missions, the primary theme of this 12 months’s SSSIF. Greater than 50 high-level technical papers have been additionally introduced.
SSSIF attendees included 72 panelists from key governmental house businesses, together with NASA, the European Area Company (ESA), and the Spanish Area Company (AEE). The occasion was additionally supported by leaders from non-public enterprise, together with Spanish firms GMV, Indra and Tecnobit Grupo Oesía, and Italian firms Telespazio and Airbus.
Miguel Ángel Vázquez and Vicente Díaz, Administrators and Co-Founders of DHV Expertise, have been the promoters and organisers of SSSIF this 12 months mentioned afterwards there have been “very completely satisfied” with the success of this 12 months’s occasion and the influence that SSSIF is having internationally.
“Our goal after we conceived this occasion was to create a congress with the presence of firms and organisations from varied international locations that will be indispensable for all these concerned within the small satellite tv for pc sector, and we consider that we’ve now achieved this,” added Mr Díaz.
The theme for this 12 months was ‘Lunar and Cislunar Missions and Enterprise’, which gave large scope for various firms within the sector to clarify the evolution of tasks associated to lunar missions.
Amongst them was Ezequiel Sanchez, CEO of PLD Area, a Spanish firm that has grow to be a serious participant within the nationwide and European aerospace business, defined the corporate’s trajectory and reviewed key moments from the launch of the Miura 1 in October 2023 as much as its preparation for the launch of the Miura 5, which he mentioned “will probably be environmentally pleasant”.
Mars and its future exploration was additionally a key theme with Andrés Martínez, Government Director of Particular Packages in NASA’s Superior Exploration Methods Division, outlining the challenges that the house company is going through in reaching Mars. He admitted that we’re “not near setting foot on this planet” however that it remained one in all NASAs and its companions important goals.
His views have been echoed by Carlos García-Galán, an engineer from Malaga and supervisor of European Service Module for the Orion programme at NASA’s Glenn Analysis Heart, who spoke about how the company believes that it is going to be viable to journey to Mars beginning in 2039 however till then the Moon will probably be used as a “check laboratory to facilitate the arrival of human beings on the pink planet”.
Diana de Miguel, from Airbus, one of many SSSIF’s prime sponsors, echoed the emotions of the convention, saying: “Smallsats will make the method of lunar exploration extra environment friendly in the case of communications and navigation, and prospecting for assets.”
Lunar and cis-lunar missions and the related economic system have grown exponentially over the previous few years. Between 2013 and 2022, some 30 p.c of exploration missions have been focused on the lunar atmosphere, with a complete finances of $58.8 billion. Between 2023 and 2032, it’s anticipated that may enhance to over 47 p.c with a finances of roughly $142.4 billion.
In the course of the discussion board, the SSSIF built-in two convention halls along with an exhibition space, the place 28 worldwide firms and establishments extremely specialised within the house subject showcased their technological advances and technical expertise.
SSSIF co-founder Miguel Ángel Vázquez introduced that the sixth version of SSSIF will probably be held on 18-20 February 2025 and can have as its important theme ‘Industrialisation and Sustainability in Area’. “We’re very completely satisfied to have the ability to maintain this discussion board, which brings collectively so many necessary personalities and corporations within the small satellite tv for pc sector, in Malaga for an additional 12 months,” he added.
