ESMATS 2023
20th European Space Mechanisms
and Tribology Symposium
Organised by Astronika Sp z o.o.
20th - 22nd September, 2023
Sponsoring and Exhibiting at ESMATS 2023
As with previous ESMATS there will be opportunities to sponsor the event and for equipment suppliers / related organisations to have an exhibition stand. As a sponsor your company logo will appear on the esmats.eu website along with company and product / service details – an ideal opportunity to promote your company and its products / services to a uniquely targeted audience. If you would like to sponsor ESMATS2023 or are interested in exhibiting your products / services / company at ESMATS2023 please contact us at esmats2023-exhibition@astronika.pl – more details can be found on the exhibitors page.
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- As a sponsor your company logo will appear:
- On the ESMATS website (with the company and product/service information).
- On conference gadgets.
- On the slide that will be displayed during the conference breaks.
- As a sponsor your company logo will appear:
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- Sponsors can also add an insert into the welcome pack (as for example promotional flyer or any other gadget agreed with the Organizing Committee)
- Sponsorship includes an exhibition booth and a single symposium registration seat
- The fee for sponsorship is: 5000 EUR (net)
We look forward to welcoming you to Warsaw in 2023.
The European Space Agency (ESA)
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Formed in 1973, when a Ministerial Conference in the Hague approved a highly ambitious space programme to carry the European space effort into the new millennium.
Since the last ESMATS, The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 5 from Kourou on Christmas Day 2021. JWST then took 30 days to tarvel to the Lagrange-2 position during which the sunshield and mirror segments were successfully deployed. Once at the L2 position the segments were correctly aligned and the instruments commissioned. The above images show the Hubble (left) and JWST (right) images taken of the Eagle Nebula. Other successes include BepiColombo completing a 2nd swing-by of Mercury on the 23rd June 2022, Vega-C completing its inaugural flight on the 13th July 2022 and Solar Orbiter made its closest approach yet to the Sun on 12th October 2022.
ESA member states
ESA has 22 Member States; Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Further to the 22 Member States, Canada and Slovenia, based on their agreements with ESA, also qualify to fully participate in the programmes of the ESA Education Office. Seven other EU states have Cooperation Agreements with ESA: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia.
By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country.
ESA develops the launchers, spacecraft and ground facilities needed to keep Europe at the forefront of global space activities.
Today, it launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space.
ESA’s purpose shall be to provide for, and to promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European States in space research and technology and their space applications, with a view to their being used for scientific purposes and for operational space applications systems:
- by elaborating and implementing a long-term European space policy, by recommending space objectives to the Member States, and by concerting the policies of the Member States with respect to other national and international organisations and institutions;
- by elaborating and implementing activities and programmes in the space field;
- by coordinating the European space programme and national programmes, and by integrating the latter progressively and as completely as possible into the European space programme, in particular as regards the development of applications satellites;
- by elaborating and implementing the industrial policy appropriate to its programme and by recommending a coherent industrial policy to the Member States.
Contact details:
Website: www.esa.int
Maxon
From concept through design and engineering to production, maxon has the technical know-how to cover the complete process of designing and manufacturing brushed and brushless DC electric motors, gearboxes (both planetary and spur), feedback devices and control. Customized drive solutions are an integral part of the company’s strategy, supported by a large engineering division. Founded 1961 maxon has now grown to >3000 employees spread over 30 countries, with over 1300 at the headquarters in Sachseln, Switzerland. Further production facilities are located near Freiburg, Germany (where all gearheads and some motor subassemblies are produced), Veszprem, Hungary (where certain manually intensive windings and brush-cover assemblies are produced as well as a number of high volume motor types), Korea (for all ECi motors), France, The Netherlands and USA. The last three locations specialize in modifying existing designs for local markets.Areas of special technical competence include machining of high precision metal and plastic parts, precision injection molding (both plastics, metals and ceramics), jig & tooling design and production, magnetic field simulations, development of motor controllers and encoders as well as the overall design of custom electric motors and gearboxes.
Approximately 90% of maxon’s annual production of nearly 5 million motors is for customer specific models. The remaining 10% of “catalog products” constitute the basis from which most customer modifications are made.
Maxon is ISO9100 certified (and was only the 7th company in Switzerland to achieve this in 1988). More recently ISO14001 (environmental standards) certification in 2006, ISO 13485 (medical standards) certification in 2007, EN9100 (Aerospace and Defense) in 2011 and IATF 16949 (Automotive) in 2022 were added.
Mars helicopter “Ingenuity”
Six Brushed DC motors (DCX10 S) as swashplate actuators
The above image of the helicopter is publicly released but the usage is regulated by JPL’s image use policy.
Maxon has had experience in formal participation with space programs since the early 1990’s. Starting with the first Mars rover, Sojourner, landing in 1997, maxon has been a regular partner with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Both rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on Mars in January 2005, each have 39 brushed maxon motors for the drive wheels, steering, camera mast and science arm. The Phoenix lander also used 7 brushed motors for positioning the two solar panels and moving the science arm. The Insight Mars lander also used brushed motors to deploy the solar arrays and hammer the mole instrument into the ground. More recently the sample handling system inside the Perseverance rover and the swashplate actuators on the Ingenuity Mars helicopter used both brushed and brushless motor and planetary gearboxes.
Contact details:
maxon international
Brunigstrasse 220
6072 Sachseln
Switzerland
Contact person: Stefan Dillier (maxon SpaceLab customer support) Stefan.Dillier@maxongroup.com
Website: www.maxongroup.com
Sener Aerospace & Defence
Sener has been a leading supplier of high-performance aerospace systems for Space, Defence and Science for more than 50 years, with high added value technological developments.
We are part of the Sener engineering and technology group, founded in 1956. The Sener Group has near 3,000 professionals in offices in five continents and works in the Aerospace, Infrastructure, Energy and Marine sectors.
In Space, it supplies electromechanical components and systems, navigation systems (GNC/AOCS), communications, astronomy and optics systems, and it is currently participating in the main programs of ESA and NASA (including Euclid, Meteosat Third Generation, Solar Orbiter, JUICE, Proba-3, Hubble, Galileo, Rosetta, Gaia, Herschel and Planck, IXV, BepiColombo, Psyche and Mars 2020) and the European Southern Observatory; in the Space commercial market, is a leading supplier of telemetry and telecommand antennas and a regular supplier of all types of antennas, passive equipment and radio frequency assets for the leading international manufacturers of communications satellites, even in programmes for the so called New Space.
We have been making the future of space exploration possible since 1967. We have been applying our solid experience in the human adventure of outer space since 1967. It is a scientific challenge that we are passionate about and that has led us to demonstrate our capabilities in programs for the most important space agencies, such as ESA, NASA, JAXA… Our technological quality turns essential components and equipment into a reality for all kinds of satellites in Earth orbit and for interplanetary exploration.
History of SENER’s involvement in space programmes
Electromechanical Systems
We began our space odyssey by developing structural mechanisms and components. Today we are a key supplier of electromechanical components and systems for the European Space Agency (ESA) including deployable systems, high precision pointing and positioning systems, sweeping systems, as well as gripping and release systems. Our equipment includes different functional elements and their integration within the electromechanical system including radio frequency, optics, power and thrust systems, etc., adapting the system to our clients’ needs.
We have more than half a century of experience in the design, manufacture, verification and final integration of critical electromechanical components and systems for space, with 100% reliability: in all our space history, none of the hundreds of pieces of equipment supplied by Sener Aerospace & Defence have recorded any failure in flight.
Rotary Actuators
Sener’s DTA family of rotary actuators is based on electric motors designed and manufactured in our own facilities. This allows us to benefit from full vertical integration and have control over all design and MAIT (Manufacturing, Assembly, Inspection and Test) activities.
Our DTA actuators are available in a variety of diameters from 2 to 10 centimeters with kinematic chains, position sensors, heaters, connectors, etc. They are characterized by high holding torque and outstanding technical performance, in addition to being used in scientific missions, institutional missions and commercial telecommunications platforms.
At Sener, we have been mass-producing them since 2017 and they can be integrated into a wide variety of mission-critical subsystems, such as pointing, deployment and electric propulsion mechanisms, both of our own design and production and those of external clients.
Devices for Space Applications
Our systems include mechanism and electronic control for other features and functionalities such as antennas, robotic elements, autonomous connections, orbital docking systems, landing gear, launcher motor vectoring, ground sample capture and analysis, gates, crew support systems, and instrument structures and benches.
Devices and Electronics for Scientific Payloads
We perform both systems engineering as well as equipment and devices for a wide range of science and biomedical research and applications in manned space flights.
For on-board instrumentation, we collaborate with the scientific community designing and implementing both the mechanisms and the electronics for said instruments in the field of:
- Filter wheels and mechanisms with their corresponding electronics and control software (ROSETTA, GAIA M2M, Euclid M2M, JUICE-JANUS, ARIEL M2M).
- Power supplies for instrument subsystems (JUICE-GALA, Comet Interceptor, EnVision).
- Instrument control electronics (SO-PHI, LISA Pathfinder DMU).
- Proximity electronics for detectors (World Space Observatory – WSO).
Contact Details for Mechanical Products
Eduardo Urgoiti
T: +34 944 817 604
M: +34 607 204 475
Avda. de Zugazarte 56
48930 Getxo (Bizkaia) – España
Website: www.aerospace.sener
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/sener
