The ESA PRODEX Programme...The ESA PRODEX Programme a flexible tool to fund space research 9 •...
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Belgian funding of space researchThe ESA PRODEX Programme
Werner Verschueren
BELSPO
Space Department
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BELgian Science Policy Office
an administration for science of the Belgian federal government
✓ Funding and management of the 10 Federal Scientific Institutes.
✓ Interfederal and International Coordination (EU programmes, bilateral programmes)
✓ Setting up and funding of federal research programmes (in coordination with regional authorities)
✓ collecting and publishing R&D statistics
✓ high bandwidth internet network for research (BELNET)
✓ Space
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Space Department of BELSPO
19 (highly motivated) people + 2 (equally motivated) secretaries
Belgium works in the context of the European Space Agency (ESA)
Belgian
scientists
industry
administrations
the public
BELSPO ESA
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Public investment in space activities
High historic Belgian public investment in Space:
~205 million euro per year
– Belgium = 7th in the world based on GDP
– Belgium = 2nd in Europe based on inhabitants
– Belgium = 5th absolute contributor to ESA
~70 research teams
>50 companies
3150 FTE
330 million euros industrial turnover per year
multiplication factor in industry = ~ 3.3
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Repartition of the space budget (%)
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Staff &Working
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Mandatory9,8 %
EO16 %
Telecom11 %
NAV0,2 %
HRE11 %
LAU23 %
SSA1,0 %
TEC14 %
Scientific support (PRODEX)
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BE participation by domain 2017-2019 @ ESA
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PROgramme for the Development of scientific EXperiments
• created in 1986
• at present, 15 countries participate
• allows the development of scientific
instruments/experiments for countries
without technical space agency
• participating States provide funds through
ESA for payload
✓ hardware and software development
✓ operations (incl. cal/val)
✓ data exploitation (research)
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The ESA PRODEX Programme
a flexible tool to fund space research
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• Cooperation among scientific institutes/universities
and between those (in the driving seat) and industry
• Implementation:
✓ ESA selects the projects
✓ BELSPO determines the level of financial support
✓ ESA issues the contracts with institutes and industry
✓ Joint follow-up by ESA and BELSPO
allows the use of ESA expertise (Prodex Office and experts from the
relevant Directorates) for “national” projects
• Guaranteed georeturn of one
• Level of funding by BELSPO depends on:
PI, co-PI, co-I, industrial involvement, intra-Belgian scientific cooperation,
development or data exploitation, Belgian pole of expertise, performance of previous
projects, etc. + affordability!
The scientific institutes get FTE’s, not euros
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4 main areas:
✓ Space Sciences (~ Science Programme)
✓ Life and Physical Sciences (~ ISS Programmes)
✓ Earth Observation (~ EO Programmes)
✓ Space Exploration (~ Robotic Exploration Programmes)
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Some successful past and ongoing Belgian PRODEX projects:
✓ Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on SOLAR ORBITER
✓ ArtemISS: study the potential of algae for bioregenerative
life support in space: the first photobioreactor in space
✓ Development of the APEX hyperspectral imager for EO cal/val activities over
Belgium
✓ NOMAD spectrometer on EXOMARS/TGO
---> Nature 568, 517–520 (2019)
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Some planned Belgian PRODEX projects for 2020-2023:
✓ ASIC development for the photosensors of the LISA mission, and gravitational
wavefront modeling of inspiraling black holes
✓ Dexterous locomotion
in microgravity
✓ Retrieval algorithm improvement and data
processors update for HCHO and SO2
on SENTINEL-5P
✓ Science Operations Centre for the LaRa instrument on EXOMARS 2020
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Budgetary erosion: constant budget (18-19 M/y)
increase of salary costs above inflation
overcosts in hardware dev. projects
more BE payload participations selected
risk for budget decrease in the future
→ Future evolution:
✓ significant savings needed in the period 2020-2023
✓ priority for ESA missions/projects
✓ priority for developments (pre-launch)
✓ new limitations for data exploitation (post-launch):
o max 1-2 FTE
o max 2-3 years
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