Grenoble university space centre

The project is led by the CSUG in collaboration with the AI & Environment chair of the MIAI Grenoble Alpes (Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence), it is supported by Teledyne e2v. Air Liquide is also contributing via a patronage agreement with the Fondation UGA. Three SMEs are also involved in the project: DSE Grenoble, U-Space Toulouse and Terrasigna Romania. QlevEr Sat will embark an innovative Artifical Intelligence (AI) module capable of processing the images from space in order to send easy-to-analyse and low volume data back to the Earth. At the end of Phase B1, a first demonstration of this module took place.

NewSpace and artificial intelligence

As the radio frequencies get saturated, data downlink to the ground has become a major issue in NewSpace. The challenge lies in interfacing a robust and radiation tolerant processor with a high-performance image sensor, within a small volume with low energy consumption (6U i.e. 6L for the entire satellite), in order to acquire and directly analyse the 5m resolution images. This will enable change detection in a given area.