20 September 2022 2 minutes Leading international partnership with ESA on quantum key distribution (INT-UQKD) Our Luxembourg team is leading a 3-year programme to develop and demonstrate international use cases for quantum key distribution (QKD) i... News Quantum Security Space
18 August 2022 7 minutes James Webb Space Telescope – Sharing Data from the Ultimate Space-Time Machine In this post, Mark McCaughrean from ESA discusses how data from the James Webb Space Telescope will be disseminated to scientists. Astronomy Blog Science Space
17 August 2022 3 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 10 – The Team as Super-Brain 10: The team as super-brain One vital contributory factor to the success of concurrent design is treating the team as a ‘super-brain’. To... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
20 July 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 9 – Taking an Iterative Approach 9: Taking an iterative approach You may have read that concurrent design takes an ‘iterative approach’. But what does that mean? We work ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
15 June 2022 3 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 8 – Efficiency 8: Efficiency One of the objectives of concurrent design is to speed up the process of the early phases of multidisciplinary projects, no... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
19 May 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 7 – Motivation and Flow 7: Motivation and Flow Working efficiently requires effort and hard work from everyone involved. This is particularly true of concurrent ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
19 May 2022 2 minutes Providing State-of-the-Art Security Services for EUMETSAT We have been awarded a 3-year contract by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) for the ... News Security Space
5 May 2022 4 minutes Supporting the Dutch MoD and ESA with Concurrent Design Solutions The Dutch Ministry of Defence has opened a dedicated concurrent design facility with our support while ESA adopts CDP4-COMET Concurrent Design News Space
20 April 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 6 – Three Steps to Achieve Commitment 6: Three Steps to Achieve Commitment In concurrent design, solutions to a problem should always be based on facts. But it is also importa... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
30 March 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 5 – Gain a holistic view through a cyclical approach 5. Take an Iterative Approach Concurrent design supports (technically) complex problems. To approach these problems logically and product... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Engineering MBSE
17 February 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 4 – Assign Ownership 4. Assign Ownership In this post, we explain why the success of concurrent design depends on all stakeholders being mandated experts and ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Engineering MBSE
31 January 2022 5 minutes Space Safety and Security – Why Both Matter What aspects are considered important for space safety? ESA’s original Space Situational Awareness programme concentrated on space debris... Blog Security Space
27 January 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 3 – Be Driven by Data 3. Be Driven by Data Concurrent design focuses on a rational, fact-based type of decision-making. However, exact values are not always av... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Data MBSE
9 December 2021 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 2 – Create Team Bonds 2: Create Team Bonds In this post, we explain why team bonds are so important to the success of concurrent design. Creating a team from s... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
9 November 2021 5 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 1 – Create Shared Understanding 1. Create Shared Understanding In this post, we explain what concurrent design is and look at the importance of creating shared understan... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design MBSE
30 September 2021 5 minutes Time to say goodbye to documents and hello to MBSE Model-based system engineering (MBSE) is not new. However, in a world where a project may have hundreds of stakeholders using myriad tool... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Engineering MBSE
1 September 2021 6 minutes 11 Times Space Weather Affected the Earth – And One Lucky Near Miss There is more than one way to measure the intensity of a solar storm. These are some of the most significant ones recorded over the last ... Blog Science Space
19 November 2020 6 minutes 7 Essential Facts about Sentinel-6: Monitoring the Oceans with Copernicus Sentinel-6 Here are 7 essential facts about Sentinel-6 and why this satellite is so important to our understanding of climate change. Blog Earth Observation Space
