Capability Demonstration (Cap Demo) Initiative - Access flight opportunities through partnerships

CASI-ASTRO 2019

June 18th, 2019

STEEVE MONTMINY / ALFRED NG

Topics

• Overview of current CSA’s Cap Demo activities (Suborbital and Space);

• Joint presentation on available platforms and opportunities through partnerships,

with the participation of collaborators and flight service providers;

• NRC Aerospace – Parabolic Flight - NRC's Falcon 20. Space, Moon and Mars.

• Swedish Space Corporation – SSC – a rocket and balloon flight provider for missions

around the Arctic.

• NanoRacks – Access to Space: The true commercial pathway.

• Discussion on access, funding and Cap Demo services;

• Real time feedback (using WOOclap.com / ID AOPNJJ) and consultations with

communities, including following B2G/B2B forums.

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WOOclap

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WOOclap Questions

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a) Why would your organization consider flying a payload for demonstration (Suborbital or Space)?

Please select your “top 2” reasons

1) To gain flight heritage

2) To increase Technology/Science Readiness Level (TRL/SRL)

3) To provide hands-on training experience (e.g. personnel, students, etc.)

4) To better position for future opportunities

5) To reduce risk and validate feasibility

6) Low cost

7) No other options

Please Go to WOOclap.com

Event ID: AOPNJJ

Works with industry & academia in 3 areas: Science (SRL), Technology (TRL), Workforce

• Pre-mission R&D to timely flight demo• To position the space sector for global opportunities

• End-to-end approach (from idea to space)

• To increase space and market readiness for both science and technology in order to be flight-ready for space missions (commercial + government)

• By encouraging youth K-12 to pursue careers in STEM

SCDPLed by DG SST

Inject$60M/year

for the

Space Sector

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Space Capacity Development ProgramInnovation Support for Industry and AcademiaTo position the Canadian Space sector for global opportunities

Integrated initiatives from ideas to space To raise readiness of Space Science, Technology and Workforce

STEDiA

CapabilityDemo.

Expertise&

Facilities

ESASTDP

ApplicationDev.

Youth Learning

Key Benefits of Capability Demonstration

Increased possibility of success of future Canadian missions

with reduced technical risks

Better positioning of Canadian space sector for global

opportunities (commercial and mission) with increased

readiness of space science and technology

Growth of New Space sector

Strengthened capability to achieve scientific research

excellence and leadership in space science

Hands-on training experience for HQP and hands-on exciting

and educational experience for young Canadians.

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WOOclap Questions

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b) What would you consider a good turnaround (time) to wrap a demonstration project up (ie. From TRL 4+ up to data analysis)?

1) Less than 1 year

2) Less than 2 years

3) About 3 years

4) About 5 years

CWFMS (Canadian Wildland Fire Monitoring Sensor) – Case Study

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Airborne demo of CWFMS

Space-borne demo of CWFMS

Cap Demo Platforms - An overview

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• Research Aircraft

• High altitude aircraft

• Parabolic flights

• Sounding rockets

• Stratospheric balloons

• Suborbital vehicles

• ISS

WOOclap Question

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c) Which conditions or representing environments are the most relevant for your Cap Demo project?

1) Analogue terrain (e.g. Surface of the Moon, Mars, etc.)

2) Microgravity

3) Altitude

4) Pressure

5) Thermal

6) Radiative

7) Deep space (e.g. Moon, Mars, etc.)

8) Other

CSA’s Cap Demo Services (The “OFFER”)

• Funding for payload development, payload adaptation/Integration and for carrying out demo missions;

• Access to platforms, flights, infrastructure & facilities;

• Technical/Engineering support for certification, airworthiness, integration and operations;

• Logistics (e.g. major flight campaigns or deployment)

• Equipment loans

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Clients and Funding

• Government - CSA approved/planned missions (SE, SU, SS&T, & OGDs) that require Cap Demo - STDP RFPs - contracts

• Industry – STDP Cap Demo AOs – contributions

• Academia - STEDiA – FAST AOs - grants

• Unsolicited requests (i.e. no funding required from CSA, flight

opportunity only, time critical commercial opportunities, etc.)

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Note: References and points of contact provided at

the end of this presentation.

Access to suborbital demo platforms through partnerships (1/2)

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Stratospheric balloon flight opportunities

• Collaborative agreement with CNES for “short” duration flight opportunities;

• Member of an Europe-Canada consortium (HEMERA) to improve services and offer;

• Establishment of a new collaborative agreement with SNSA (Swedish National Space Agency);

• Considering a first transatlantic balloon flight in 2022;

• Provision of generic payload gondola platforms + onboard subsystems;

• CSA HAB system/services to support small payloads;

• Certification and commissioning of HiDRON (Stratodynamics) glider in Canada (for release from balloons);

• Exploring access to a new equatorial launch site in Brazil;

• Support testing of HAPS systems/subsystems.

Access to suborbital demo platforms through partnerships (2/2)

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Reduced gravity flight opportunities• 5-year agreement with NRC to access parabolic flights on

Falcon 20 aircraft.

Research aircraft fights opportunities• Ad-hoc MOUs/Contracts with OGDs and other organizations

(ex. NRC, DND/DRDC, NASA).

Sounding rocket flight opportunities• Exploring potential collaboration with international partners to

access payload allocation on sounding rockets;

• Promote DLR/SNSA REXUS/BEXUS program for students

• Through Stedia, support CaNoRock (Canada-Norway student

rocket program)

• Long-standing Canadian industrial capability to supply sounding

rocket vehicles to flight service providers.

WOOclap Question

d) Which Canadian organization has built sounding rockets for more than 60 years?

• Hint: That rocket is probably the most popular ever built and worldwide recognized for its reliability?

1) AllRockets.ca

2) McDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)

3) Cesaroni Technology inc.

4) Rocket Candy Canada

5) National Research Council (NRC) of Canada

6) Magellan (formerly Bristol)

7) DPL Science ltd

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Black Brant 1 – September 5th 1959

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WOOclap Question

e) How long can a 300 kg payload be subjected to microgravity condition on a sounding rocket flight?

1) Approximately 20 sec

2) Less than 2 minutes

3) Up to 7 minutes

4) More than 7 minutes

5) Sounding rockets do not provide uG, get a ride on the “Vomit comet”

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PERWAVES (Flame propagation experiment under uG conditions - McGill)

Series of parabolic flights (NRC’s Falcon 20) – 2010 to 2014 and 2019

1st Rocket flight (ESA MAXUS 9) in 2017

Stratospheric balloon flights (short duration)

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• 5 launch campaigns since service/base commissioning (2013)• 3 in Timmins; 2 abroad (Kiruna, Sweden and Alice Springs, Australia)

• 25 zero-pressure balloon launches

• 31 Canadian payloads (from 1 kg to 760 kg)

• Flight duration from 4 to 33 hours

• Next flight campaign: August-September 2019 (Timmins)• 13 Canadian payloads on zero pressure balloons + 1 on new CSA HAB

WOOclap Question

f) What altitude can a 1000 kg payload hanging from a stratospheric balloon reach?

1) 20 km

2) 30 km

3) 35 km

4) 40 km

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THEN

Javier Romualdez UofT 2015

Long Duration Balloon Flights (LDBF)

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• Long duration flights over the Arctic;

• Trajectories from Kiruna (Sweden) or Svalbard (Norway) to Northern Canada (Nunavut);

• 5-6 days flight;

• Considering first flight in 2022;

• Planning STDP Cap Demo AO including a LDBF category;

• Exploring access to Ultra Long duration flights;

• Strateole (CNES);

• High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS);

• etc.

Research and high altitude aircrafts (Some examples)

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• QKD (Quantum Key Distribution) (QEYSSAT payload

breadboard) sub-orbital demo flight on NRC Twin Otter

aircraft – Summer 2016

• SHOW (Spatial Heterodyne Observations of Water)

demo flight on NASA ER-2 aircraft – Summer 2017

• Filter-based HSI/HYSPEX (CSA/DRDC) joint demo flight

on a military aircraft – Fall 2017

• WISE Experiment Cal/Val on NRC Twin

Otter – Ongoing since summer 2018

• CWFMS (Canadian Wildland Fire

Monitoring Sensor) demo flight on NRC

Twin Otter – Summer 2019

QKD demo (IQC/YorkU)

SHOW demo (ABB/USask)

Access to space demonstration opportunities

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• QEYSSaT (Phase B – Tech demo mission in space)

• CWFMS-WildFireSat (Phase A – Tech demo mission in space)

• Canadian CubeSat Project

• 15 CubeSat's from all provinces and territories – for training and inspiration (Exposure to space-related STEM);

• Contract with NanoRacks for access to space from ISS.

• Explore opportunities, open to ideas, highly adaptive and create partnerships to access space via hosted payloads opportunities and shared rides (NASA, ESA, India, Japan, etc.)

• Earth orbits

• Lunar/planetary orbits

• Lunar/Martian surface

Cap Demo for STEM/Training (Some examples)

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MIIST Team (University of Alberta)

Krishna Nair (Project Taurus II)

• Annual flight opportunities and

allocation dedicated to STEM

• CAN-RGX, CAN-SBX, CSA HAB

for high schools, etc.

• Open house events and

workshops

• Timmins base, Cubesat

workshops, etc.

CPSX Team (UWO)

WOOclap Question

g) What are your main challenges to access space?

• Please select your “Top 2” predominant gaps from the list below?1) Lack of funding (e.g. for development, for demonstration, etc.)

2) Lack of opportunities (e.g. for testing, for flight, etc.)

3) Lack of key personnel (workforce)

4) Lack of partners (e.g. to share risks, co-funding, expertise/know-how, etc.)

5) Lack of support, other than funding (e.g. to access opportunities, to provide guidance/expertise, etc.)

6) Lack of information (e.g. how to respond to AOs, How to apply for a flight, etc.)

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Contact / Infos• Cap Demo (Points of contact) :

Alfred Ng

• Deputy Director, Engineering and Capability Demonstration / Cap Demo Manager

• alfred.ng@canada.ca

• 450-926-4641

Steeve Montminy

• Manager, Suborbital Demonstration

• steeve.montminy@canada.ca

• 450-926-4493

• STRATOS Open AO (Balloon flight access) :

• http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/funding-programs/funding-opportunities/ao/2013-ss-balloons.asp

• FAST mailbox :

• asc.damo-awd.csa@canada.ca

• STDP mailbox :

• asc.pdts-stdp.csa@canada.ca28

WOOclap Questions

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h) What’s your preferred approach for consultations about future Cap Demo planning?

1) Dedicated Conference / Workshops (on-site event)

2) Webinar (live Q/As sessions on internet)

3) Survey / Questionnaire (emails)

4) Call for Ideas

i) How would like to be kept informed about current/upcoming Cap Demo opportunities?

1) CSA’s website

2) Annual webinars

3) AOs, RFPs (Status quo)

4) Dedicated mailing list (emails)

WOOclapOpen Question to initiate B2G exchange session

How can CSA work better with the community? Any critique,

suggestion, or idea is welcome

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Questions?

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Reduced gravity flights with NRC (Parabolic flights)

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Concordia ExoMars rover wheel testing (2018)

McGill/Airbus Perwavesexperiment testing (2019)

VECTION-ISS payload(2018)