10
May

Space Innovation Forum #2

10 May, 2016 – 11 May, 2016

2016Dear members of the RIT project,

We have the great pleasure to invite you to the second Space Innovation Forum of the project RIT* that will take place in Kiruna on May 10-11.

Remember to register for the event – find it in your email.

Meeting venue

  • 10th of May: Space Campus
  • 11th of May: Camp Ripan

Invited

  • All partners of the RIT project.
  • All PhD students, supervisors and the board of the Graduate School of Space Technology
  • All space companies connected to LTU
  • Regional SMEs interested in the space industry
  • Media
  • Space students (Only May 10th)

Meeting objectives

  • Gather the project members and provide a physical (and launch a digital) platform for matchmaking between space industry, regional SMEs and academia.
  • Present the R&D projects within RIT
  • Highlight the needs of the space industry and the competence of the regional SMEs

    Preliminary Program

    May 10th at Space Campus

    From 12.00 – Lunch
    (Train arrives 10.45, flight 13.00)
    14.00 – Welcome – Space Innovation Forum #2
    Johanna Bergström-Roos, Project Manager & Stefan Sydberg, Deputy Mayor (Kiruna) 
    14.20 – Introduction – Onboard space systems
    Reza Emami, Professor LTU
    14.30 – Formation flying in space 
    Sumeet Satpute, PhD LTU & Per Bodin, OHB
    14.50 – ANSHAB – Autonomous Navigation System for High Altitude Balloons
    Kanika Garg, PhD LTU & Kent Andersson, SSC
    15.10 – Software-defined radio for ground-based satellite communication
    Moses Browne, PhD LTU & Christer Jonsson, SSC
    15.30 – MicroPILS – Micro Propulsion in the Loop Simulations
    Rickard Ottemark, PhD LTU & Johan Sundqvist, SSC Nanospace
    15.50 – Coffee
    16.20 – Development of the HABIT instrument
    Álvaro Soria-Salinas, PhD LTU & Johan Riesbeck, Omnisys
    16.40 – Intro Additive manufacturing (3D-printing)
    Marta-Lena Antti, Associate Professor LTU & Anna Öhrwall Rönnbäck, Professor LTU
    16.50 – Additive Manufacturing in Sweden – a country tour
    Angelica Lindwall & Christo Dordlofva, LTU PhDs
     17.00 – SMARTi – Links between additive metal deposition process and the mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V
    Patrik Johansson, GKN
    17.10 – Design and qualification of additive manufacturing of space components
    Christo Dordlofva, PhD LTU & Ola Isaksson, GKN
    17.20 – Radical innovation within space applications 
    Angelica Lindwall, PhD LTU
    17.30 – Q&A session additive manufacturing
    17.50 – Conclusion day 1
    18:15 – Bus to Camp Ripan (Check-in at the hotel, dinner and social activities)

    May 11th at Camp Ripan

    08.00 – WP 3 Update –  Collaboration and Innovation Management within RIT and the Centre of Excellence
    Mattias Gustafsson, LTU Business AB
    08.30 – Open Cosmos and their journey from idea to a start-up
    Aleix Megias, LTU alumni from Space Campus
    08.50 – QB50
    Reza Emami, Professor LTU
    09.10 – The needs of the space industry
    Representatives from SSC, OHB, GKN, NanoSpace, Omnisys, IRF, EISCAT (5 min/company)
    10.10 – Coffee
    10.40 – Competence of relevance to the space industry
    Regional SMEs: LKAB Mekaniska (mechanics), Conex Engineering, Umbilical Design, Pre Eye
    11.10 – How can the new city strengthen the space business and vice versa?
    Lars Bäckström, Municipal strategist, Kiruna
    11.30 – Thoughts about the next Space Innovation Forum
    Short workshop
    12.00 – Conclusions
    12.15 – Lunch
    (Flight departs 13.35, Train 13.54)