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SKA Project System Capabilities and New Technologies For SKA project System capabilities and new technologies for SKA 16/05/2018 This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 1 Ref. = 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Thales experience & capabilities System engineering Technologies <date> This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 2 Ref. = <reference> 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Thales has a recognized expertise and experience in the fields of complex systems’ projects management, engineering, architecting and IVV AEROSPACE SPACE GROUND DEFENCE SECURITY TRANSPORTATION EACH OF THE MARKETS Thales operates as a single organisation, drawing on the talent THAT THALES SERVES and technologies of the entire Group to act as prime contractor, PLAYS A VITAL ROLE systems integrator, equipment supplier and value-added service IN SOCIETY provider on both civil and military programmes This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 3 Ref. = 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Thales Alenia Space has developed its own system capacities taking benefit of the Thales experience, tools and projects feedback Telecommunications Civil, military, dual-use Geostationary Orbit Spacebus satellites: Orbital infrastructure SPACE Yamal 401 & 402, Arabsat 5C & 6B Supply 50% of the pressurised volume Eutelsat W3C, W6A, W3D, Apstar 7, of the International Space Station Athena-Fidus, Sicral 2 Payloads: Telkom3, Redsat, Arsat-1 Telecommunications Prime contractor Science for telecommunication satellite Prime contractor of ALMA Constellations Iridium Next, Globalstar, O3b Prime contractor for ExoMars, Europe’s first mission to land on Mars Earth observation Civil, military, dual-use Navigation Meteosat 1st, 2nd & 3rd generations, Prime contractor for Galileo Ground Mission French national programmes, Pleiades, Cosmo Segment and EGNOS SkyMed, Sentinels This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 4 Ref. = 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Thales experience & capacities System engineering Technologies <date> This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 5 Ref. = <reference> 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 SKA-project available system engineering capabilities A unique and unrivaled experience through the lead of major systems Galileo: Responsible for System design and Ground Mission Segment (GMS). Ground infrastructure deployed on 16 sites worldwide ; real-time algorithms SPACE with nanosecond timing synchronization, taking into account relativist effects. Syracuse 3 & 4 - French military communication systems: Responsible for design and development of the entire system. Syracuse 3 is operated since 2005. Syracuse 4 is under development. Iridium Next - worldwide mobile communications: Provision of 81 satellites ; Responsible for design, integration and verification of the entire system ; On- board processing and routing throughout the constellation with inter-satellite links. To date 50 satellites launched, service opened 2 months after the 1st launch. Atacama large Millimeter Array (ALMA): Provision of 25 giant antennas for the most complex and powerful ground-based astronomical observatory ever built. Design, manufacture, transport and on-site integration of the 12- meter antennas in the Atacama desert This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 6 Ref. = 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 How to deal with a very large operational system ? Strong processes and heritage - Successfully applied on critical large systems Involvement of end-user: “Voice of customer” to share the understanding of value for end- SPACE user Engineering Methodology : Modeling to cope with the complexity of the system (out of human capacity) and manage consistency and completeness. Requirements management : Full traceability of requirements at every level, from design to validation Integration, Verification, Validation : Envisage lifecycle (incl. evolution) of system and operations jointly as a whole to ease operational capacity increment Operations, maintenance, life-time support : Anticipated in system engineering is key to master total cost of ownership : from design, development, manufacturing to operation and disposal /removal Cyber security : Take into account early in system engineering to avoid rework at the end Suppliers management, partnerships : Management of industrial organization is key factor This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 7 Ref. = 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Thales experience & capacities System engineering Technologies <date> This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 8 Ref. = <reference> 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Technologies A large portfolio of ground & space technologies Artificial intelligence for telemetry analysis & operations/maintenance optimization Active array of antennas & ground antennas Cybersecurity Satellite telecommunication systems for worldwide data dissemination <date> This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 9 Ref. = <reference> 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Technology 1 – Artificial Intelligence for telemetry analysis & operations/maintenance optimization 08/03/2017 This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 10 Ref. = 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Artificial Intelligence for large systems Very large volumes of telemetries are generated by large systems Need to extract the relevant information The life cycle : Streamline Secure operation: Minimize integration and detect an anomaly as maintenance cost: validation early as possible intervene at the right through moment automation Predictive Health maintenance monitoring Automatic capitalize knowledge while limiting false detection of and enrich system alarms discrepancies model 08/03/2017 This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 11 Ref. = 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Experience for telemetry analysis • TAS is the world leader of in-orbit satellite constellations (Iridium-next, Globalstar, O3b) • Experience in integration, validation and operational experience • Constant monitoring of thousands of telemetries • Experience with very heterogeneous data coming from many systems and sub-systems. Temperature Voltage 08/03/2017 Categorical state Current This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 12 Ref. = 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Know-how and tools • Interactive data exploration • Hundreds of millions of samples • Many scales of interest 6 years of TM data, 80 million points interactively navigable 08/03/2017 This document is not to be reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated in any material form in whole or in part nor disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of Thales Alenia Space. 13 Ref. = 2017 Thales Alenia Space CIOMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE Template Ref.= 83230347-DOC-TAS-EN-004 Know-how and tools • Interactive tools for similar behaviors clustering and labeling • Automatic anomaly detection Similarity search from a region selected by the user 08/03/2017 This document is not to be reproduced,
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