Technology Partnerships

Starting from know-how coming from Space Projects, the Technology Partnerships Program offers services of research & development support and training, in space or other industrial domains, in numerous fields.

Electronics, Sensor

• Design and prototyping with analog electronics expertise (sensor interfacing, obsolescence management, reliability evaluation, breadboarding, prototypes… )  
• Embedded hardware & software development
• Test Equipment 
• Radiation analysis & tests

Non Destructive Testing for system, instruments or materials

• Characterization of composites structure behavior, undergoing different kind of stresses. Dimensional measurements, deformation metrology, delamination detection   
• Deformation and temperature measurement coupling
• Selection of control techniques
• Dedicated test set-up for industrial end-user

Mechanical & Thermal Design

• Thermal analysis with standard programs like ESATAN/ESARAD or CSL home made software
• Space payload mechanism design
• Cryogenic expertise
• Technologies of solar concentration for photovoltaic and thermal solar applications

Optical Design & Metrology

• Optical design and optimization using software such as CODE V, ASAP, FRED, IDL or Intelliwave
• Development of flight metrology instrumentation
• Development of new metrology tools - Support to industry in metrology problems
• Straylight Analysis – BRDF characterization 
• Study of optical function working in severe environment – Prototyping
• Illumination devices conception  

Quality   

• Cleanliness and contamination control expertise and metrology
• Cleaning and decontamination of hardware
• Design and manufacturing of clean room

Satellite data processing  

• Expertise in the frame of SAR interferometry (InSAR), differential interferometry (DInSAR), coherence tracking, SAR polarimetry and polarimetric interferometry (PolSAR & PolInSAR), split band interferometry (SBInSAR) and spectral coherence. 
• Algorithms and tools development for Earth Observation applications 

Surfaces micro & nano-engineering

• Design (optical stack simulation, optical performances computation) 
• Coating deposition (thermal evaporation, E-beam evaporation, magnetron sputtering, ion beam sputtering)
• Metrology (coating structure and thickness, absorption, solar absorbance, refractive indices, reflectivity & transmission in extended thermal range)
• Optimization and check of coating performances against severe environmental conditions
• Qualification (humidity, thermal cycling, radiations)     
• Ion Beam Figuring:  Surface correction by material ablation (figuring) or surface modification by material ablation (texturing)   
• Nano-engineering study for application fields in biomedicals, catalytic solutions, emissivity control, photovoltaics, radiation shielding 
• Microstructures recording, dry etching and microreplication