Consortium

Matrisk is an engineering consultancy that combines scientific excellence with a highly targeted and practical approach to provide the decision support that our clients need. We approach every problem by asking "what are the decisions that the client needs to make and what are the questions that must be answered to support that decision?" Only then do we decide which methods and tools are best suited to efficiently help our clients.

Matrisk was founded in 2004 and has since then been constantly growing. Today, Matrisk counts four partners, all of which are also active in research and are world-wide leading experts in their respective fields of experience. Acknowledging that our experience is limited, we furthermore access a global group of associated experts. 

Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus Group responsible for defence and aerospace products and services.

Thales Alenia Space is a Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%).

For more than 40 years now, Thales Alenia Space has designed, integrated, tested, operated and delivered innovative space systems. Our cutting-edge products and services meet the needs of commercial and government customers from around the world, spanning the space, defense, science and security markets. Thales Alenia Space's satellites and payloads are recognized worldwide as benchmarks in delivering communications and navigation services, monitoring our environment and the oceans, better understanding climate change and supporting scientific research. Today, Thales Alenia Space is one of the main suppliers to the International Space Station, and a pivotal player in systems to explore our Universe.

Along with Telespazio, Thales Alenia Space forms the Space Alliance, which offers a complete range of solutions and services.

SAREL Consult GmbH is an independent firm, specialising in development process optimisation, safety & reliability assessment, as well as training. The safety and the reliability of our clients’ products is at the heart of our activities; this may include sensitive projects. Therefore, we are committed to working in partnership with our clients, thus building a trusting relationship, which forms the basis for their success. We support your company throughout the entire development process of complex systems, starting from risk assessment of malfunction, classification of failure consequences during the concept phase of development, to defining safety requirements for system design.

SERMA TECHNOLOGIES is a technology consulting and engineering company specialised in analysis, control, expertise and consulting service of electronic components, boards and systems. We assist our customers at each level of the industrial cycle by providing support on various issues such as development, reliability, security of their products.

SERMA TECHNOLOGIES performs more than 6000 physical and electrical evaluations per year on electronic components, boards and systems in a wide range of sectors (aeronautics, space, automotive, transport, railway, telecoms, military, assembly, contract manufacturers…) at all levels of the industrial cycle: technology analyses and qualifications, failure analyses, smart cards tests, electrical tests & characterisations, reliability & characterisation test on semiconductor processes, qualification programs, IC modification with FIB.

Space Structures GmbH is an independent engineering company founded in 2011 with offices in Berlin, Germany. Its team specializes in space product development for all project phases and offers structures and thermal engineering services as well as related products, both software and hardware.

Main activity is the development of fiber reinforced composite structures and additively manufactured metal parts. Key projects include large spacecraft primary structures as well as manned mission applications. Other areas of expertise include development of instrument structures, opto-mechanical systems, electronic equipment, propulsion systems, ISS instruments & experiments and mechanical ground support equipment. Research and development projects provide the fundament on which in-house product innovation is based on.

Space Structures GmbH supplies SpaceBolt™, the only commercially available European software for bolt analysis according to space standards. Our software engineering also offers custom software development for special applications in the mechanical and thermal domains.

Space Structures’ customers range from space industry players and launch service providers to the European space agencies and European Commission.

A panel of insurance companies, all specialized in space insurance, have agreed tosupport the consortium with their expertise. They are already collaborating in the frame of the FFA (French Federation of Insurance) in a work group about satellite reliability. The companies are :

• AXA Corporate Solutions: belongs to the AXA group, in charge of insurance of corporate clients, insurer of ESA
• Hiscox: specialist insurer with over 100 years experience and involved in space insurance for more than 20 years
• Scor: reinsurer
• Tokio Marine Kiln: subsidiary of Tokio Marine Insurance group, underwriting space insurance on behalf of Lloyd's syndicates, with a team cumulating 22+ years in space engineering and 21+ years in space insurance.
• La Reunion Spatiale: Space Branch of the REUNION AERIENNE & SPATIALE underwriting Agency , specialized in aeronautical and space risks since 1953.
• ALLIANZ Group Corporate and Specialties : insures corporate and specialties, including space risks.