LDE Space Day 2023

Workshop sessions round 1 | 13.30 - 15.00 hrs.

 

1 | Planetary Sciences @LDE:

This session will unfortunately be postponed to a later date and time

 

2 | Phi-lab: Accelerating transformational innovations

ESA has started the Phi-lab mission to accelerate innovation in technologies and capabilities with the potential to disrupt the Market. Following up with the success of the Phi-lab Frascati, there will be Phi-labNet programmes implemented in several member states as of 2024. The NL Space Campus will run the NL Phi-lab programme, to bring people, academia and companies together to stimulate innovation with the innovation pipeline and support for commercialization of cutting-edge research. 


Join this workshop session to learn about the plans and opportunities of NL Phi-lab programme. We look forward to hear your (ideas for) research proposals and discuss how academia, institutes and academia can be involved in the programme.

Session Lead: Raoul Voeten & Niels Eldering

Interesting for: researchers, engineers, scientists, entrepeneurs, companies, innovators

 

Curiosity Series

3 | Lost in Space... and Found by NLP: applications of Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models in the space field

Designing spacecraft requires a multidisciplinary approach, careful planning, and piles and piles of documents! Information is often scattered across various databases, saved in different formats, and the number of space missions is increasing fast. All these factors make interacting with language more and more important. In this panel we will discuss how we use recent advances in NLP, in particular LLMs, to accelerate the design of space missions, augment the capabilities of experts and map the field’s ecosystem!

This session is intended for researchers and professionals working on space missions with a curiosity about Natural Language Processing, as well as practitioners of AI and NLP

Interesting for: space project managers and system engineers, AI researchers and developers

4 | Solaris: Feasibility of Space-Based Solar Power - part 1

ESA is running the SOLARIS programme to study the feasibility of Space-Based Solar Power. While the fundamental technology building-blocks are well understood, the engineering challenge is still very daunting due to the scale of the enterprise. Additionally, there are a wide range of socioeconomic considerations that also need to be addressed. What is the environmental impact? What regulations do apply? Can and should this be commercially operated? Will it reduce the environmental impact compared to regular on Earth solar power?

In this Curiosity Series edition we will discuss and explore the various aspects of Space-Based Solar Power and determine what would needs to be investigated further.

Part 1 of the workshop will consist of:

  • A presentation of the ESA Solaris project.
  • Status of the technology to beam energy to Earth and collect it
  • What questions remain to be answered?
  • Round the table discussion with:
    • Introduction of the participants
    • Identification of unknowns and questions

In part 2 of the session in the second round of the workshop the discussion will be picked up based on the unknowns and questions that we identified.

Session Lead: Michael Mallon & Alex Bush from ESA

Interesting for: space engineers, solar power experts, environmental experts, space law, space business, energy sector