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European Space Agency
Company Snapshot
• Emerging Leader in Surface Modification Technology
• Founded in 2006 by John O’Donoghue
• Cluster Member of a World-class Engineering & Material Science Campus & Facilities base.
• Partner to European Space Agency for Satellite Surface Coatings.
• Investigation projects undertaken with Fortune 500 companies outside of Space sector
• 20 Employees – based in Dublin, Ireland.
• World’s first Inert Metal Oxide replacement process.
• Controlled co-incidental blasting of abrasive and coating particles on a reactive metal substrate.
• Oxide replaced with bonded coating
• Excellence in Simplicity, Speed, Cost and Function
Bulk Metal
Dopant (HA)
Brief History – a Reality Check
High’s & Low’s• 2006 Won InterTradeIreland All-Island SEEDCORN competition• 2007 First Internal Crisis & recovery• 2009/10 Second Internal Crisis & major policy shift
Funding • BES• EI & State• Industrial Investment• ESA - Work Package
Out of the Valley of Death into Space • Cash Flow Crisis looming• Futile Engagement with a major Medical Device Company• Need to Change Policy Fast
• Spin-in to UCD• Focus on Industrial Arenas and Space in particular
• A New Beginning and a New Team
New Horizons• EnBio CCO made initial steps in Q4 2008
• Checked ESA EMIT’s Invitations to Tender• Both Open and Intended invitations
• Responded to a number that were Titanium related
• Anti-corrosion; Wear resistance; Pigmenting/Blackening; etc
• Enterprise Ireland Role• Ensured pitches were directed appropriately in ESA
• Organised meetings between ESA and EnBio
• A €300k Work Program resulted by December 2008• Black surface for Thermo Optical properties
• 8x Work packages to be completed over 2-3 years
• Completed in 2011 and extended for new surfaces/coatings
• ESA unmet need for Black thermal protection surfaces • June 2011 - Astrium Briefing to Irish Companies on Solar Orbiter
• Q1 2011 – EnBio signs a 500k contract with ESA for SolarBlack surfaces
Solar Orbiter
To perform close-up, high-resolution studies of our Sunand inner heliosphere, Solar Orbiter is intended to bravethe fierce heat and carry its telescopes to just one-fifth of Earth's distance from our nearest star.
SolarBlack
TreatedSolar Orbiter components
SolarBlack Production
And on it goes……….• June 2012 ESA approach EnBio with another request
• Need alternatives to incumbent white surfaces for solar reflection –
• Seeking improved thermo-optical performance
• Striving to overcome problems with:• White darkening over time causing reduced efficiencies
• Coating delamination – flaking off the surface• Decreased reflectance
• Particulate damaging instrumentation
• Poor surface conductivity causing static build-up
• A €100k Work Program put in place to research the possibilities
• We fully engaged UCD & took on a PhD student in ceramics
• Kicked off program in July last year • Within 1 month we had produced 2 options in a pilot plant in UCD
• Quickly narrowed to 1, which we developed over next 9 months
• This product – Solar White – is undergoing final test in UK• All tests passed and no problems anticipated with final test
• Major excitement in the ESA community
• A further production facility planned and proposal submitted to ESA
• This is being discussed between EI and ESA in Paris today!
Proposed SolarWhite production facility -UCD
BepiColombo - Mercury?
EI SnapshotIreland’s Space Strategy - December 2010• Ireland co-ordinates its space activities through ESA • Member state since 1975, • Engaged in a range of ESA Programmes including;
• Space Science Mission Programme• Earth Observation Programmes• Satellite Navigation Programmes (Galileo, GNSS evolution
Programmes• Space Transportation Programmes (Ariane 5 and associated
programmes)• Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP)• Satellite Communications Programme, (ARTES)• Space Science Experiments and scientific payloads (PRODEX)• European Life and Physical Sciences Programme (ELIPS)• General Support Technology Programme (GSTP)
EI Snapshot
The key objectives of Ireland’s membership of ESA are;
1. Support the development of a high technology industrial sector in Ireland that supports the European space programme and that can exploit global space market opportunities.
2. Support the development in Ireland of a dynamic research community in space research, as well as in a number of space related technology domains.
3. Promote the use of space based systems for commercial and societal needs.
4. Manage ESA Geo-return (fair return to donating countries)
EI & DJEI ContactsThe Enterprise Ireland Space Team
Bill O’Brien, Deputy Head of Delegation to ESA,E: bill.o’[email protected] T: +353 1 7272533Tony McDonald, Industrial Policy, Space Technologies, Satellite Communications & Satellite Navigation Programmes; E: [email protected] T: +353 1 7272464Bryan Rodgers, Launchers Programme, Science Programme, Human Spaceflight, Microgravity & Robotic Exploration Programmes; E: [email protected] T: +353 61 777003Barry Fennell, Earth Observation/GMES Programmes, EU Framework Programme, Space Theme,E: [email protected] T: +353 1 7272562
Department of Jobs Enterprise and Innovation Space TeamMichael G. Davitt, Head of Delegation to the European Space Agency Office of Science, Technology & Innovation, DJEIE: [email protected] T: +353 1 6312286Patricia Timmons, Delegate - ESA Administration & Finance Committee Office of Science, Technology and Innovation, DJEIE: [email protected] T: +353 1 6312194
European Space AgencyToday space activities are pursued for the benefit of citizens, and citizens are asking for a better quality of life on earth. They want greater security and economic wealth, but they also want to pursue their dreams, to increase their knowledge, and they want younger people to be attracted to the pursuit of science and technology. I think that space can do all of this: it can produce a higher quality of life, better security, more economic wealth, and also fulfil our citizens' dreams and thirst for knowledge, and attract the young generation. This is the reason space exploration is an integral part of overall space activities. It has always been so, and it will be even more important in the future.
Jean-Jacques Dordain
ESA Director General
ESA INDUSTRIAL POLICY• Meet ESA program needs• Promote Space science, research and technology, and applications
for exclusively peaceful purposes • Co-ordinate ESA's technological & research activities with EU focus• Increase the competitiveness of European industry internationally• Develop the capacity of European industry to efficiently and
economically react to market demands • Harmonise tasks between European and national space activities.• Foster the participation of SMEs in ESA procurements by restricting
some actions to SMEs only and encouraging non-SMEs to team up with SMEs
• Set rules relating to geographical distribution or fair return - ratio between the share of a country in contracts and its share paid to the Agency by the end of a given period.
ESA devotes much time and effort in trying to meet all these requirements while maintaining technical excellence and economy.
ESA ProgrammesMandatory: (based on GNP contributions)
• Scientific Programme to achieve excellence
• General Budget for internal functioning and R&D activities
• Technology Research Programme (TRP) for basic technology
• General Study Programme (GSP) to explore new avenues
Optional: (Member States contributions for specific interests)
• Human Space Flight
• Microgravity research
• Earth Observation
• Telecommunication
• Satellite Navigation
• Launchers
• Exploration
ESA Snapshot
• ESA’s budget for 2011 was 4 billion Euro.
• Close to 85% of this budget was transformed into contracts with European industry mainly for research and development activities.
Doing Business with ESA
EMITS
EMITS is ESA’s web-based system for publishing (competitive)
Invitation to Tenders (ITT). It includes inter alia:
• A list of intended ITTs: potential bidders may declare their interest and see other bidders
• Many technical, administrative and contractual standards and documents (General Tender Conditions, General Clauses and Conditions for ESA Contracts, PSS-A forms, engineering standards etc)
• Competitive ITTs
• Competitive ITTs published by ESA on behalf of other entities
Request for Quotation (RFQs) is the term used for direct
negotiations.
ESA Engagement• EMITS Registration
All Companies, Institutes and Universities that wishes to
do business with ESA are required to register as “potential
bidders” and EMITS users.
• All the relevant information can be found on:
www.esa.int/industry
or
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/industry_how_to_do_business/SEMLLBC1S6F_0.html
EMITs web-page
Ensure Participation in ESA Programmes• Review EMITS ITTs regularly
• Pay special attention to the special procurement clauses C1-C4 and also to announcements made on EMITS under “Entities”
• Communicate your interest, via EMITS, to participate in the corresponding ITTs
• Contact potential partners identified via EMITS
• Respond to Invitations to Tender announced via EMITS
• Acquire and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of ESA’s programmes, activities, organisation and methods of operation
Pending ESA ProjectsCurrent projects to be launched in the near future [edit]• ADM-Aeolus — Due for launch in 2013 will measure global wind profiles.• BepiColombo — space probe to Mercury (together with JAXA).• Don Quijote — space probe planned to test deflecting an asteroid, launch in 2013 or 2015 [1]
• ExoMars — Mars spacecraft and rover to be launched 2016.• EXPERT — a flying hypersonic wind tunnel.• Galileo positioning system — a proposed satellite positioning system.• Gaia — cataloguing and astrometry of stars in our galaxy.• James Webb Space Telescope — planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (together with NASA and the Canadian SA).• LISA Pathfinder — aka Smart-2, technology demonstrator for the LISA mission.• Proba-V — a new satellite in the PROBA series, to be launched in April 2013. To observe the ground vegetation on a global scale• Swarm — a satellite mission to measure Earth's magnetic field.• Sentinel-1 — 1st component of GMES Space Segment to provide all-weather, day and night radar imaging for land and ocean services.
Future projects [edit]• Aurora Programme — a space exploration programme for exploration of Mars and other planets in our solar system.• Cosmic Vision — a programme of space science missions for 2015–2025.• Cheops- a joint project between ESA and Switzerland to study the structure of exoplantes.• EarthCARE - collaboration with JAXA to understand cloud radiative and aerosol processes that affect the Earth's climate• Euclid — a planned space telescope for mapping the distribution of dark matter and characterizing properties of dark energy.• FLPP — a study to evaluate potential future European launchers, reusable or expendable.• IXV — the associated reentry demonstrator to FLPP.• Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer — spacecraft to visit the Jovian system, studying three of Jupiter's moons; Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.• LISA — a mission to detect and study gravitational waves (together with NASA).• Mars Sample Return Mission — a Mars probe as part of the Aurora Programme.• PLATO — a planned space telescope for detecting transiting exoplanets.• Proba-3 — a mission involving 2 proba-like satellites to demonstrate formation flying.• Solar Orbiter — an orbiter to examine the polar regions of the Sun, with a prospective launch in 2015.
TRLs
EnBio EI ESA - Impact!• Closest manmade object to the sun in 2020 to 2025• ESA SolarBlack Coating facility in NovaUCD, new SolarWhite
coating facility pending again in UCD• SolarBlack TRL – 2 years; SolarWhite TRL – 1 year• Baseline surface technologies in ESA for next 20 years!• CoBlast in top 3 technologies currently studied by ESA• EnBio has hosted 3 thermal management Workshops in Nova
UCD attended by top scientists engineers & technology managers
• ESA & Astrium advocating CoBlast to associates • EnBio rolled out by EI in the top 20 hi-tech companies for the
EU presidency• Featured on PBS, Discovery Channel, RTE, Scientific and
academic journals. • Selected to represent UCD’s branding for Innovation• Terrestrial thermal management opportunities pending• Wider industrial and commercial inquiries coming in.
EnBio
Contact Information etc …
EnBio Limited, NovaUCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel: +353-(0)1 525 3305Fax: +353-(0)1 525 3309
Where next??
"To infinity ......................... and beyond!"
Thank You
www.enbiomaterials.com
