CONSORTIUM

The Air Force has extensive experience in maritime surveillance and monitoring through aerial observation and imagery. In this Agenda, it will contribute to defining technical and operational requirements for the systems, validating use cases and requirements for security and emergency verticals, and developing short courses and advanced training in the space domain, with a specific focus on military applications. In some cases, this collaboration will extend to partnerships with civilian universities.

Involving more than 120 Portuguese entities in the Aeronautics, Space, and Defence sectors, AED will spearhead work package 6, concentrating on promoting initiatives to enhance training, qualification, and internationalisation in the Space sector's R&D+I. AED will actively publicize and advocate for the work carried out on a global scale, highlighting its results and emphasising the value of innovation, technology transfer, and their transformation into new goods and services.

International collaborative organisation promoting an integrative approach to space, climate, ocean and energy through the Atlantic. The AIR Centre will be responsible for WP 5, defining user requirements and associated services. It will also participate in the Atlantic Constellation requirements definition, and on the Digital Planet, in particular in: biodiversity monitoring; estimation of oceanic physical parameters, and Big Data processing through Machine Learning. Air Centre will develop non-economic activities throughout this Agenda focused on the scientific development and collaborative promotion.

Through its Space and Ocean unit, CEiiA plays a key role in the New Space Portugal agenda, where it contributes to systems engineering and development of high and very high-resolution satellites in the Atlantic constellation. To this end, it will work in close collaboration with the satellite systems integrator, also getting involved in the procurement, assembly, integration and testing of satellite subsystems. CEiiA will also play a relevant role in the development of the Digital Planet, in two main areas: basic infrastructure and applications based on satellite data.

The +ATLANTIC is a private non-profit association, which acts as a Collaborative Laboratory for the advancement of the national scientific and technological system in the fields of Space and Ocean. In this way, +ATLANTIC plays two key roles in the New Space Portugal agenda: it supports the definition of the HR and VHR components of the Atlantic Constellation and develops innovative applications based on satellite data, which will be implemented in the Digital Planet.

Non-profit public-private institution and one of the main technological centres in the country. INEGI will contribute to the development of various technologies for integrated systems and subcomponents, within the Atlantic Constellation, promoting the rise of the associated TRL level, specifically in the area of design-oriented manufacturing processes, materials and light structures, mechanisms, mechanical ground support equipment (MGSE) and advanced manufacturing technologies. For the VDES Constellation, it will contribute to the development and production of a new VDES antenna.

INESC TEC is a private non-profit institution dedicated to scientific research and technology development and transfer, consulting and advanced training and pre-incubation of new technology-based companies. It will contribute to the development of on-board processing enablement algorithms, including pre-processing techniques, for the Very High-Resolution Constellation, and to the study of the challenges inherent in defining a single data access platform for a cloud computing infrastructure on the Digital Planet.

Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) aims at the creation and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the field of telecommunications. IT will work on the development of an IoT gateway, a ground station for IoT data transmissions and a RF Front-End and Antennas for the payload of the High-Resolution Constellation satellites. Regarding the VDES constellation, it will support the development of an antenna for VDES communication.

Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN) promotes Innovation and establishes the link between the scientific community and companies, being responsible for ESA Space Solutions Portugal, in particular for the ESA Business Incubation Centre programme at national level. IPN will be responsible for leading WP 8, driving innovation and entrepreneurship activities in the Portuguese space ecosystem.

ISQ is a private Portuguese entity with a permanent presence in eight countries on four continents. In the aerospace sector, where it has been present for 20 years, its main services are: Experimental Tests up to TRL 6; Technical Inspections and Operations at the European Space Centre; Support Engineering. Within New Space Portugal, ISQ will carry out Verification and Validation activities in the development and launch of the HR and VRH constellations, accompanying the definition of specifications, documentation, design, implementation and execution of test campaigns, complemented by V&V analyses. At Planeta Digital, ISQ will develop two new services based on EO data and advanced AI models to support infrastructure asset management. It will also participate in the validation and qualification of SAR and VDES constellations.