Consortium
Consortium
Four companies united in innovation: discover our consortium
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Absolut System
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Absolut System is a French industrial engineering SME founded in 2010 and based in Grenoble. As a subsidiary of Groupe Absolut, Absolut System is a major player in the development and supply of innovative cryogenic systems.
Absolut System develops and markets customized cryogenic equipment for a wide range of applications, including superconductivity, detection systems, on-board applications (aircraft, marine, space), cryogenic space launchers, and space propulsion.
Absolut System has taken part in prestigious space missions with the design and production of thermal links for Copernicus missions, EUCLID mission, the MTG satellite family and the supply of thermal heat exchangers for the Mechanical Pump Loop developed by Thalès Alenia Space for very large GEO telecom satellites.Absolut System is the project coordinator. Absolut is responsible for the development and testing of the fluidic demonstrator, as well as the dissemination and exploitation of the project.
Jérôme Lacapère
Technical Expert
General Manager
Absolut System
Kathleen Blyth
System Engineer
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The Exploration Company
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The Exploration Company’s mission is to democratize space exploration, making it affordable, sustainable and cooperative. To realize this mission, The Exploration Company develops manufactures and operates “Nyx”, a modular and reusable orbital vehicle that can eventually be refuelled in orbit and uses green propellants.
Nyx provides a wide scope of missions ranging from resupplying space stations around the Earth and the Moon, free flying around the Earth or landing in the Moon – and safely coming back to Earth. Nyx will initially fly cargo and, but future version also has the potential to carry humans.
The Exploration Company (TEC) oversees the definition of use cases and foreseen mission, the organisation of the in-orbit demonstration and the integration onto and operation of Nyx.
Hélène Huby
CEO and Co-founder
The Exploration Company
Sebastien Reichstadt
Propulsion System Lead
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Centre Spatial de Liège
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Founded in 1964 by the University of Liège, the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) is an applied research center focused on the design of space observation instruments, with environmental test facilities serving the European Space Agency (ESA), the space industry and regional companies. For almost 60 years, the CSL has been developing advanced technologies in optics, electronics, mechanics and thermics.
As a world-renowned center of expertise, the CSL collaborates with numerous European and international institutions (ESA, CNES, Thales Alenia Space, Belgospace, NASA, JAXA, ISRO, KARI, Airbus Defense and Space, FEDER, Wallonie, BELSPO, Wallonie Espace, etc.) and works on the continuous development of its performances in order to prepare for the evolutions of the space industry and to remain a key partner in space instrumentation and associated calibration, as well as in the value chain of space data processing.
CSL is responsible for the qualification testing of the flight system.
Christophe Grodent
Commercial Director
Centre Spatial de Liège
Valérie Samain
Project manager
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Universitat Politècnica
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The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC) is a public research and higher education institution in the fields of engineering, architecture, science and technology, and one of Europe’s leading technical universities.
To contribute to building a sustainable and equitable world through research, technology transfer and the dissemination of knowledge, and by training graduates in engineering, architecture, science and technology capable of thinking critically, working in interdisciplinary and multicultural teams, adapting to change and continuing to learn throughout their lives.
UPC will develop and test the acoustic propellant management systems.
Ricard González-Cinca
Head of the UPC Space Exploration Lab
Absolut System is a French industrial engineering SME founded in 2010 and based in Grenoble. As a subsidiary of Groupe Absolut, Absolut System is a major player in the development and supply of innovative cryogenic systems.
Absolut System develops and markets customized cryogenic equipment for a wide range of applications, including superconductivity, detection systems, on-board applications (aircraft, marine, space), cryogenic space launchers, and space propulsion.
Absolut System has taken part in prestigious space missions with the design and production of thermal links for Copernicus missions, EUCLID mission, the MTG satellite family and the supply of thermal heat exchangers for the Mechanical Pump Loop developed by Thalès Alenia Space for very large GEO telecom satellites.
Absolut System is the project coordinator. Absolut is responsible for the development and testing of the fluidic demonstrator, as well as the dissemination and exploitation of the project.
Jérôme Lacapère
Technical Expert
General Manager
Absolut System
Kathleen Blyth
System Engineer
Absolut System
The Exploration Company’s mission is to democratize space exploration, making it affordable, sustainable and cooperative. To realize this mission, The Exploration Company develops manufactures and operates “Nyx”, a modular and reusable orbital vehicle that can eventually be refuelled in orbit and uses green propellants.
Nyx provides a wide scope of missions ranging from resupplying space stations around the Earth and the Moon, free flying around the Earth or landing in the Moon – and safely coming back to Earth. Nyx will initially fly cargo and, but future version also has the potential to carry humans.
The Exploration Company (TEC) oversees the definition of use cases and foreseen mission, the organisation of the in-orbit demonstration and the integration onto and operation of Nyx.
Hélène Huby
CEO and Co-founder
The Exploration Company
Sebastien Reichstadt
Propulsion System Lead
Co-founder The Exploration Company
Founded in 1964 by the University of Liège, the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) is an applied research center focused on the design of space observation instruments, with environmental test facilities serving the European Space Agency (ESA), the space industry and regional companies. For almost 60 years, the CSL has been developing advanced technologies in optics, electronics, mechanics and thermics.
As a world-renowned center of expertise, the CSL collaborates with numerous European and international institutions (ESA, CNES, Thales Alenia Space, Belgospace, NASA, JAXA, ISRO, KARI, Airbus Defense and Space, FEDER, Wallonie, BELSPO, Wallonie Espace, etc.) and works on the continuous development of its performances in order to prepare for the evolutions of the space industry and to remain a key partner in space instrumentation and associated calibration, as well as in the value chain of space data processing.
CSL is responsible for the qualification testing of the flight system.
Christophe Grodent
Commercial Director
Centre Spatial de Liège
Valérie Samain
Project manager
Centre Spatial de Liège
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC) is a public research and higher education institution in the fields of engineering, architecture, science and technology, and one of Europe’s leading technical universities.
To contribute to building a sustainable and equitable world through research, technology transfer and the dissemination of knowledge, and by training graduates in engineering, architecture, science and technology capable of thinking critically, working in interdisciplinary and multicultural teams, adapting to change and continuing to learn throughout their lives.
UPC will develop and test the acoustic propellant management systems.
