Space scientific payloads development

The electronics lab offers extensive design, prototyping, system engineering and project management services for the development of Instrument Control Units (ICU) and Remote Terminal Controllers (RTC) for optical scientific payloads for Space.

As part of the ULiege, we benefit from close partnership with the scientific community, particularly in the fields of:

Observation of the Sun in the UV and EUV spectra
Observation of the Earth in the visible spectrum
X-ray detection
Photometry

We carry out electronics and software involving techniques such as:

FPGA and SoC design
Microcontroller programming
Vacuum
Reliability
Radiation tolerance
Thermal regulation
Actuation of cover mechanisms
Fine positioning of filters, mirrors
Signal conditioning of image sensors and photometers
Data acquisition, storage and processing
Telemetry

We also benefits from on-site environmental test facilities providing easy-access to vacuum thermal cycling, vibration, shock and specific optical calibration and verification equipment.

Past and Current projects include

HST-PDA, XMM-NEWTON, ILM2-RAMSES, ISS-3DUC, HERSCHEL-PACS, JWST-MIRI, PROBA2-SWAP/LYRA/ESP, JUNO-UVS-SMIB, ESIO, SOLAR-ORBITER-EUI, PROBA3-ASPIICS, VMU mkII