WHEN WILL WE GET to Mars?

No. 39 I MARCH I 2018 WHEN WILL WE GET TO Mars? INTERVIEW LATEST NEWS PEDRO DUQUE: The PAZ satellite EUROPEAN SPACE IS ALREADY IN ORBIT AGENCY (ESA) ASTRONAUT WITH CHANGE comes opportunity ntil recently, when someone talked about any type of Space industry, they referred to the Space sector. However, a new concept has emerged –so-called New Space – and I guess we Ucould now define the model known and established more than fifty years ago as traditional (I refuse to call it old). EDITORIAL The term New Space refers to a new global trend with a clearly commercial orientation, one which functions separately from government policies and regulations such as those of the main contractors. To this definition, we could add the adverbs very or highly, together with the adjectives agile, flexible, productive, disruptive and technological. If New Space is very agile, does that mean the traditional sector is not? If New Space is highly technological or flexible, does it mean traditional industry is not? Not at all. This sector, now called traditional, has been and continues to be innovative although, it’s true, now perhaps to a lesser extent. We cannot forget the trips to the Moon, the 135 Space shuttle flights, the International Space Station, Mars exploration, communications, Earth observation and the many other scientific successes. These achievements are opening up the way to new business models. Indeed, some sectors are tending towards stagnation in that they are trying to extend the life of their products and services, to obtain a greater return on their investments. This situation may be equivalent to if not the same as the so- called “digital disruption” that is forcing changes, often traumatic ones, in a significant number of WINTER industries in a broad spectrum of sectors. Just as in any market, following on from a phase of technological growth and stabilization our sector has begun to look for other vectors for entering new markets, attracting new customers, improving moon existing products and generating new services. Morgan Stanley has estimated that the Space industry will have an economic impact in 2040 of more THIS GORGEOUS COMPOSITE IMAGE SHOWS THIS IT WAS CREATED ON 14 DECEMBER BY AMATEUR than 1.1 quintillion dollars, through products mostly linked to Internet access and connectivity. They DECEMBER 2017’S FULL MOON, ALSO KNOWN AS A PHOTOGRAPHER CLAUS VOGL, FROM FÜRTH, GERMANY, have even published a list of the 20 companies that they expect will lead this emerging market. ‘COLD MOON’, SEEMING TO HOVER ABOVE A SET OF WHO WRITES: “I SPENT MY VACATION LAST WEEK AT It includes traditional companies in the sector such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and others SATELLITE TRACKING DISHES ON THE CAMPUS OF THE GRAN CANARIA. I SPOTTED THE ESA SITE MANY YEARS linked to the new economy (perhaps no longer so new!) such INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNICA AEROSPACIAL (INTA), AGO AND ALWAYS WAS FASCINATED BY THESE BIG as Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Qualcomm, United IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CANARY ISLANDS’ GRAN ANTENNAS FACING INTO SPACE. THE ENTIRE SHOOTING Technologies and Honeywell. THE GLOBAL PROCESS OF CANARIA, AT MONTAÑA BLANCA. WINDOW WAS JUST TWO MINUTES. I SHOT FROM ON TOP OF A LITTLE MOUNTAIN 1.6 KILOMETRES WEST OF THE BIG DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ONE OF THE ANTENNAS – THE 15 M-DIAMETER DISH Given the optimistic estimates and the opportunities ANTENNA, JUST OUTSIDE A VERY LITTLE VILLAGE CALLED SEEN AT LEFT – IS ESA’S MASPALOMAS TRACKING emerging around us, it seems obvious that change is FUELS THESE INCREASINGLY MONTAÑA LA ARENA ON A NARROW DIRT ROAD. THE STATION, WHICH CURRENTLY COMMUNICATES WITH CAMERA EQUIPMENT WAS A CANON EOS 5D MARK 3 WITH irreversible. The question is whether this change will be as NUMEROUS AND RAPID ESA’S CLUSTER, LISA PATHFINDER AND XMM-NEWTON AN EF 70-200/2.8 IS L LENS (EXPOSURE TIME 1.0 SEC/ drastic and immediate as has been stated. If we talk about MISSIONS. CHANGES APERTURE F5.6/ISO 400).” immediacy, I think it’s no longer necessary to take this into consideration as many of the new proposals are already here as real business models. Regarding the strength and firmness of the change, as always happens this will probably not be in the apocalyptic terms that are sometimes announced. In any case, the industry must keep moving in the direction demanded by market forces. We must be able to adapt our organizations, processes, technologies and models in order to access new opportunities in the market. It is certainly a challenge, but not something new for the Space industry. We have done it before and for sure we can do it again. Luis Gómez CEO I think the most important thing to consider is the quantity and speed of the changes we will face ALTER TECHNOLOGY from here on. The global process of digital transformation fuels these increasingly numerous and IberEspacio TÜV NORD Tecnología Aeroespacial rapid changes. This is the real challenge that industry in general is facing and, of course, the Space sector will be no exception. 24 30 EDITORIAL 3 WITH CHANGE COMES OPPORTUNITY LUIS GÓMEZ. CEO ALTER TECHNOLOGY TÜV NORD INTERVIEW 6 PEDRO DUQUE FEATURE 12 38 12 WHEN WILL WE GET TO MARS? 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In 1986 he joined GMV and NASA Shuttle mission. the same year was appointed by the company to work in the Precise Orbit He was also the CEO at Deimos Determination Group at the European Imaging, S.L., a company focused on Space Operations Center (ESOC) of making use of the data obtained from the European Space Agency (ESA), in Earth observation satellites. In October Darmstadt (Germany). 2011, Duque returned to ESA and PEDRO resumed his position as an astronaut, He stayed there until 1992, working maintaining his qualifications for a on the development of models and potential new space flight. During this algorithms, as well as in implementing period, he led the Flight Operations programs for determining spacecraft Office, with responsibility for European orbits. In May that year he was selected activities on the International Space to join the ESA’s Astronaut Corps at the Station and is currently responsible European Astronaut Center (EAC), for the control and review of future in Cologne (Germany). From then manned flight projects. DUQUE until July 1993 he completed the Basic Training course at the EAC, as well as In short, the four space flights in another program at the TSPK (the which he has participated makes Pedro EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY Russian Astronaut Training Center) in Duque a specialist in the adaptation of Star City (Russia), in preparation for experiments for carrying them out in (ESA) ASTRONAUT participating in the future cooperation spacecraft, as well as organizing tasks program between ESA and Russia on and procedures both from ground the MIR Space Station. and from space. So, we started the interview with a question about the ISS In August 1993, Pedro Duque returned (International Space Station). We went along to the ESAC facilities century castle (Castillo de Aulencia) to Star City and began training for in Villanueva de la Cañada (about providing a spectacular backdrop for the EUROMIR 94 (ESA-Russia) joint 30 km from Madrid), the center of ESA’s large hi-tech antennas. ESAC mission. In the first phase he qualified as a Scientist-Astronaut for the Soyuz the European Space Agency (ESA) also houses the scientific archives of and MIR spacecraft.

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