CANEUS NPS (Nano-Pico-Satellites) Inc. To Develop the World's Most Advanced Miniature Satellites

CANEUS NPS (Nano-Pico-Satellites) Inc. To Develop the World's Most Advanced

Miniature Satellites

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CANEUS NPS Nano-Pico-Satellite

CANEUS NPS Leads The World by Creating a New

“Disruptive Technology” Market by Infusing

Micro-Nano-Technologies into Satellite Systems



Project Overview

1. What is CANEUS NPS (Nano-Pico-Satellite) Inc.?2. About the CANEUS NPS Strategic Alliance3. About the Satellite Technology Market and the areas

CANEUS NPS is targeting4. What are the Proposed Planned Mission Offerings?5. Competitive Advantages for CANEUS NPS?6. Industry-University-Government Partnerships7. Timeline and Milestones



CANEUS NPS• CANEUS NPS is incorporated with a Federal

charter in Canada. • CANEUS NPS has a bold, paradigm-busting

vision of making space truly affordable and “on demand” via a revolutionary class of Nano and Pico satellites that will drastically lower the cost of space missions and increase the frequency of the launches.

Target Costs for Satellite Classes Show 100x improvement! Target Costs ($ million) Satellite

Group Mass

(including fuel)

Manufacturing Launch Insurance Total Cost

Large Sat

>10,000 kg $154.0 M $100.0M $62.0 M $316 M

Nano Sat

1-10 kg $3.0M $0.2M $0.8M $4.0M

Pico Sat 0.1-1 kg $1.5M $0.1M $0.4M $2.0M



CANEUS NPS

• CANEUS NPS originated as a concept of CANEUS, a Canadian-led worldwide professional organization, and benefits from the global members expertise.

• The CANEUS organization charter is to advance the maturity of emerging Micro-Nano-Technology concepts via the development of end-to-end system development strategies.

• CANEUS NPS represents the first venture to demonstrate the CANEUS approach of rapid, cost-effective development of Micro-Nano-Technologies.



The CANEUS NPS Alliance (Cont’d)

• CANEUS NPS has orchestrated a strategic alliance that has brought together

– Angstrom Aerospace Corporation, Sweden, with a radically new multifunctional satellite architecture

– Astrium UK, supported by EADS-ST (France) and EADS-CRC (Germany) who will collaborate in developing the nanosatellite demonstrator and also supply core sub-systems for the Nano-Picosatellites.

– A number of other large aerospace organizations that will work with CANEUS NPS; either as Prime End Users or as project advisors

– Universities and Research Labs in Canada, USA, Europe and Japan that have communicated expressions of interest.



CANEUSPROGRAM ADVISORS

NRCCANADA

CNRS/CNESFRANCE

ALCATELFRANCE

AACSWEDEN

AACSWEDEN

CANEUS NPSPROJECT

IMPLEMENTATION

ASTRIUMEADS

ASTRIUMEADS

TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT

MITSUIBUSSAN

JAPAN PRIME END USERS

CANEUS NPS Strategic Alliance

CANADIAN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

USAFAFOSR

Universities Research Labs



• According to the Satellite Industry Association the industry earns over 60% of its revenue from services, a proportion that has increased from about 40% ten years ago.

Satellite Technology Market



Small satellites - Background• Traditionally, “small” satellites have been in

the 50-100 kg range.

• Several universities have created student satellites in the 1kg, Cubesat class. However, these are low-budget experimental satellites and are not commercially viable products.

• Even though conventional launch opportunities are few and far between, Nano and Pico Satellites can benefit from nearly every launch opportunity as secondary payloads due to their small size & autonomy.

• Currently, there are no established players in this untapped market.

• By offering a new and exciting paradigm to make space accessible and affordable, CANEUS-NPS is poised to be the early market leader.



Planned Mission Offerings• Space Validation flights

for new technologies being developed by large Aerospace Contractors for future commercial / scientific missions.

• Spacecraft constellation missions for:• Space weather/Solar

Storm early warning• Land-use imaging

missions.• 24/7 Weather prediction• Scientific missions



The Case for Space Technology Validation– Technologies being developed for Space suffer from a

Catch-22: “We cannot fly technologies that have not flown before”

– Satellite mission planners are not prepared to take the risk of carrying new experimental payloads that could potentially damage or jeopardize the primary mission.

– Currently, access to space validation opportunities is limited for a vast number of new technologies since the existing validation approaches are prohibitively expensive and are very infrequent.



The CANEUS-NPS Competitive Advantage

– Currently, satellites are akin to luxury automobiles in that they are custom-made, expensive machines that few can afford.

– CANEUS NPS offers a “Henry Ford” approach to making space accessible and affordable.



CANEUS NPSCompetitive Advantage (cont’d)

CANEUS NPS is the world’s only Nano-Pico-Satellite

developer with a novel,

multifunctional architecture, a unique feature that has not been found in other

small satellite developments.

• CANEUS NPS takes on the entire, end-to-end development from mission design, fabrication, assembly and testing, to launch and ground operations.

• CANEUS NPS offers its customers a low-cost, rapid means of access to space missions.

CANEUS NPS provides its customers with superior value in design, delivery and post-launch service.



CANEUS NPSCompetitive Advantage

CANEUS NPS sub-systems are MEMS and Nano Technology enabled and are based on integrating important spacecraft functions rather than separate sub-systems.



CANEUS NPSNano-Pico Satellite Architecture

• Small satellite technology goes beyond simple miniaturization. Miniaturizing conventional satellite architectures will not work because of the limited size, mass and power of Nano- Pico Satellites.

• A radically new system architecture, such as the proposed Multifunctional Architecture is needed to fully and efficiently use the capabilities of advanced Micro-Nano-Technologies.

• CANEUS NPS sub-systems are MEMS and Nano Technology enabled and are based on integrating important spacecraft functions rather than separate sub-systems.



Specific Opportunities for Participation by Industries, Universities, and Research Laboratories

Specific opportunities exist in– Advanced Materials and Structures– RF and Optical Links– Microdevices– Miniaturized guidance and control– Miniaturized spacecraft propulsion– Orbital mechanics– Mission architecture and design– Scientific Payloads



Project Milestones

• MilestoneQ1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

• Mission design and definition

• Functional subsystems design

• Infrastructure development

• MEMS Component Design

• Subsystem fabrication and test

• Spacecraft assembly and testing

• Spacecraft integration and testing

• Launch and ground operations development

• Launch and mission operations

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3



Milind PimprikarChairman

CANEUS Inc.

Thomas GeorgePresident

CANEUS USA Inc.

Tel: (514) 499-3959

Email: [email protected]: www.caneus.org

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