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12th Aeromart Toulouse

Aeromart is a matchmaking program strictly reserved for professionals from global civil and defense aviation industry. Through this event, abe/BCI Aerospace will gain the resources to create an online interactive platform allowing the organization to participate in targeted meetings, exchanges and high-level conferences between contractors, OEMs, subcontractors and suppliers of the aero spatial industry.

For this 12th edition, more than 1300 companies will be attending and 45 countries will be represented (Europe, Maghreb, North & South America, Asia, Russia).

Thanks to the recurring participation of major OEMs and Tiers 1, Aeromart has demonstrated its international stature, becoming an unmissable event for all players in the aerospace industry.

You must sign up to attend. Two and a half weeks prior to the forum you’ll have to identify and request meetings with relevant contacts through detailed online catalog.

Your approved meetings and those you have accepted (among the requests you received) will be pre-arranged on a schedule and held at Parc des Expositions de Toulouse.

How does it work?

  1. Register online for the business convention: fill out the form describing your company, the products, capabilities and services you offer.
  2. Three weeks before the event, you will have access to all the participants and can choose who you want to meet with.
  3. Taking into account the wishes of all participants, abe/BCI aerospace will schedule your business meetings and create a personalized meeting agenda taking place over a 2-day period.
  4. You attend the business convention, including business meetings and conferences.

Program:

December 4 : Aeromart Summit – one day conference, registration fee : 150€HT.

December 5-6 : Business Convention (prearranged one-to-one meetings and workshops).

NEW !! :  For the first time during Aeromart Toulouse, a special focus will be brought on space infrastructures and supply chain. Find more information on : www.space-industry-summit.com (available soon) / Download the leaflet

For more information, please visit website.

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ESA Ice Cubes space research service open for business

ICE Cubes model

The first European facility for commercial research on the International Space Station was installed today in Europe’s space laboratory Columbus. The International Commercial Experiments service – ICE Cubes for short – offers fast, simple and affordable access for research and technology experiments in microgravity.

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold installed the ice-box-sized facility in the European Physiology Module in the Columbus laboratory. ICE Cubes gets its power, temperature regulation and communications from Columbus.

The facility hosts experiments designed around 10 cm cubes (1U) or combinations of this volume – there is room for 12 cubes on top and two rows of four cubes below. Experiments can also float freely through the Columbus laboratory and communicate wirelessly with the facility to send data to Earth.

The first experiments are going to be launched on the next SpaceX Dragon supply vessel scheduled for launch this month. Designed to be plug-and-play, the experiment cubes only need to be slotted into the facility for them to work.

The first ICE Cubes experiments from the International Space University highlight the versatility of the service. One will investigate plant biology, another will bio-mine with microbes, and a third merges the arts and science by using a person’s heart rate to change a piece of kaleidoscopic artwork.

Get your space in space

Columbus laboratory

The ICE Cubes service is based on a partnership with Space Applications Services and is part of ESA’s human and robotic exploration strategy to ensure access to the weightless research possibilities in low Earth orbit.

From idea to reality in a year, anybody’s experiment can be launched to the Space Station. Service launches occur typically three times a year. With one point of contact and over two decades of space research know-how, getting an experiment designed, built and in compliance with International Space Station standards has never been easier.

The price starts from €50 000 for a 1-kg experiment with an end-to-end service package running for four months, with cheaper rates for educational organisations.

Stay connected
ICE Cubes control centre

ICE Cubes offers unprecedented 24-hour direct access to its experiments via a dedicated mission control centre at Space Applications Services’ premises in Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Belgium. Clients can connect at any time to their experiment from their own location over internet to read the data and even send commands directly.

The experiments themselves will be highlighted on the ESA website over the next few weeks. Visit the ICE Cubes service website for more information and contact details.

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Visit to department of Aerospace Engineering at University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt

The 7 members of the A3 team visited on the 9th of April 2018 department for Aerospace Engineering at Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt. In the company of several members of the host team, led by Dr. Carsten Scharlemann, Head of the Department, discussion was about the technical details of the CubeSat development, their experience of the PEGASUS satellite launched last year, and the CLIMB CubeSat project, which will be the first in the world to use trusters to change orbit from circular into elliptical. After the discussion, which lasted for several hours, their labs were shown, satellite testing instruments and self-developed pulsed plasma truster and the vacuum chambers where it is tested. Finally, desire for closer cooperation was expressed between A3 and AE on several projects.

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Founding Assembly

Founding Assembly of the Adriatic Aerospace Association was held at the Ruđer Bošković Institute on 18. December 2017. The Association was established by 30 founding members from research and academic institutions, schools of technology and high technology firms. In this way the Association acquires the status of legal entity as opposed to previous status when it was an assembly of members bonded by mutual consent agreement.

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Micro Drones

The core mission of FLIR UAS is to develop, produce and sell the world’s smallest and most advanced Personal Reconnaissance System (PRS). Currently FLIR UAS creates innovative solutions for complex problems based on modern microelectronics, new sensor technology, creative mechanical design and cost-effective production. Also, it works closely with leading industry partners and broad customer bases to provide optimal and functional products that meet the needs of the operator. The latest achievement is the Black Hornet with nano sensors.

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Design your personal drone

The new MIT system that came out of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is the first to allow users to design, simulate, and build individually custom-made drones. Users can change the size, shape, and structure of their drone based on the specific needs for carrying capacity, price, flight time, battery consumption, and other factors.

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The future of the drone market

Goldman Sachs has the highest forecast = $ 100B USD by 2020 (of which 70% for the Army).

Like the internet and GPS before them, drones are being developed beyond their original military use to become powerful business tools. They have already made a jump on the consumer market and are now being used in commercial and civilian governmental applications from firearms to agriculture. This creates a market opportunity that is too large to neglect.