Are optical imaging small satellites in the EO market a disruptive technology?

Silvia Rodriguez-Donaire; Miquel Sureda; Miriam Nieto; Daniel Garcia-Almiñana; Candia Muñoz; Jose S. Perez; Peter Roberts; Jonathan Becedas; Nicholas Crisp; Vitor Toshiyuki Abrao Oiko; Steve Edmondson; Stephen Worrall; Sarah Haigh; Katharine Smith; Rachel Lyons; Sabrina Livadiotti; Claire Huyton; Luciana Sinpetru; Dhiren  Kataria; Rosa M.  Domínguez; David González; Georg H. Herdrich; Francesco Romano; Tilman Binder; Adam Boxberger; Stefanos Fasoulas; Constantin Traub; Yung-An; Ronald Outlaw; Leonardo Ghizoni; Victor Jungnell; Kristian Bay; Jonas Morsbøl; Rachel Villain; Alexis Conte; Badia Belkouchi; Ameli Schwalber; Barbara Heißerer

Are optical imaging small satellites in the EO market a disruptive technology?

Silvia Rodriguez-Donaire, Miquel Sureda, Miriam Nieto, Daniel Garcia-Almiñana, Candia Muñoz, Jose S. Perez, Peter Roberts, Jonathan Becedas, Nicholas Crisp, Vitor Toshiyuki Abrao Oiko, Steve Edmondson, Stephen Worrall, Sarah Haigh, Katharine Smith, Rachel Lyons, Sabrina Livadiotti, Claire Huyton, Luciana Sinpetru, Dhiren Kataria, Rosa M. DomínguezDavid González, Georg H. Herdrich, Francesco Romano, Tilman Binder, Adam Boxberger, Stefanos Fasoulas, Constantin Traub, Yung-An, Ronald Outlaw, Leonardo Ghizoni, Victor Jungnell, Kristian Bay, Jonas Morsbøl, Rachel Villain, Alexis Conte, Badia Belkouchi, Ameli Schwalber, Barbara Heißerer

Materials Engineering

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

After decades of traditional space businesses, the space paradigm is changing. Conventional projects based on customization, large budgets, extended time framework, and requesting huge amounts of resources are no longer feasible in the new space market. New approaches to more efficient missions in terms of costs, design and manufacturing processes are fostered. For instance, placing big constellations of micro and nano-satellites in Low and Very Low Earth Orbits (LEO and VLEO) enablethe space community to obtain a huge amount of data in near real-time with an unprecedented temporal resolution (Denis et al. 2017) . Beyond technology innovations, there are other drivers that promote the innovation in the space sector like the increasing demand of Earth Observation (EO) data by the commercial sector. Euroconsult report (2018) stated that the EO industry is the second market in terms of operative satellites (661 units), being micro and nano-satellites the higher share of them (61%). Technological and market drivers encourage the emergence of new start-ups in the space environment like Skybox, OneWeb, Telesat, Planet, OpenCosmos, among others, with novel business models that change the accessibility, affordability, ownership and commercialization of space products and services. This paper shows some results of the H2020 project DISCOVERER, and focuses on understanding how micro and nano-satellites have been disrupting the EO market in front of traditional platforms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Spanish Small Satellites International Forum
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 7 Mar 2019
Event	Spanish Small Satellites International Forum - Malaga, Spain Duration: 7 Mar 2019 → 8 Mar 2019

Conference

Conference	Spanish Small Satellites International Forum
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Malaga
Period	7/03/19 → 8/03/19

Keywords

Disruptive innovation
low-end market
micro and nano-satellites
New Space
Earth Observation

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

National Graphene Institute

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Space Systems Research Group
Smith, K. (PI), Roberts, P. (PI), Crisp, N. (PI), Mcgrath, C. (PI), Parslew, B. (CoI), Hollingsworth, P. (CoI), Utyuzhnikov, S. (CoI), Lo, K. C. J. (Researcher), Muirhead, I. (PGR student), Wijacinski, K. (PGR student), Kent, B. (PGR student), Mackintosh, J. (PGR student) & Lopez Pardo, B. (PGR student)
Project: Research

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Rodriguez-Donaire, S., Sureda, M., Nieto, M., Garcia-Almiñana, D., Muñoz, C., Perez, J. S., Roberts, P., Becedas, J., Crisp, N., Abrao Oiko, V. T., Edmondson, S., Worrall, S., Haigh, S., Smith, K., Lyons, R., Livadiotti, S., Huyton, C., Sinpetru, L., Kataria, D., ... Heißerer, B. (Accepted/In press). Are optical imaging small satellites in the EO market a disruptive technology? In Spanish Small Satellites International Forum

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