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TESTS• OHB, A NEW PARTNER CUSTOMER FOR INTESPACE OHB is currently developing the Prisma satellite, tasked with an Earth observation mission run by the Italian space agency ASI. The satellite structural tests have just been completed at Intespace.

Although the reputation of the Intespace test centre preceded their meeting, it was on the occasion of a professional trade show in Italy that initial contacts were made and then officialised between OHB and Intespace. Gianni Babini of the Prisma programme is today fully satisfied with this initial experience: “When we look at the results of this collaboration, several points attract our attention. First of all, Intespace was extremely responsive in its commercial approach, which enabled us to rapidly reach an agreement on the conditions of our collaboration. We also appre-ciated the flexibility of Intes¬pace, which was ca-pable of modifying the test resources throughout the campaign. Intespace was also able to adapt to our more specific needs, such as supply of the marman test clamps similar to those used in flight. There was also the availability of dedicated and suitable trolleys and MGSE for integration and transport phases with I/F vs marman clamp”.

A true partner for the Prisma project

Intespace is just as satisfied, because the company was able to show its new customer the effectiveness of its project assistance methodology. This is manifested by the ability to solve all difficulties, whether integra-tion or technical problems. OHB also appreciated the comprehensive nature of the service, which takes in the engineering of the tests and the output and inter-pretation of the results. “Thanks to the DynaWorks® software, we were able to monitor the test results in real-time”, explains Mr Gianni Babini.

Before leaving the test centre, Mr Gianni Babini made one final suggestion: continue research into testing methodology, more specifically the impact tests performed with a nail gun.

Certainly an idea worth testing.

INTESPACENEWSLETTER n°18 / July 2014

editorialTHE CLUSTER WHICH OPENS THE DOOR TO EUROPEThis year is a pivotal one for Intespace. Firstly, with the creation of our cluster with Airbus Defence and Space, which has now been operational in 8 test centres in Europe since the beginning of the year. It must be said that the two companies were already close and for many years have worked together on a number of projects. Intespace regularly performs satellite test campaigns on behalf of Airbus Defence and Space. The staff from the two companies know how to work together. They are both part of Airbus Group and that makes things easier.

They each however have their own characters, their own culture and their own identity. Intespace is a company of 171 staff, specialising in testing and test engineering, with a highly proactive approach to development and to the diversification of business opportunities in other industrial sectors. Our associate in this cluster, Airbus Defence and Space, has the competence and experience of a lead contractor capable of covering all segments of the space sector: launchers, orbital infrastructures, satellite systems and services. Within this context, they have complete expertise in testing know-how and high-tech sites where they carry out some of their test activities.

Our cluster, our association, now combines all the techni-cal and human resources devoted to testing within the two companies, each one benefiting from the contribution of the other. This will create a common dynamic specific to the testing market and propose a more complete and more pertinent range of products for our customers that more closely meets their needs. This is a real guarantee for future development.

On a day to day basis, 2014 is also a year of total change for our Toulouse site. We have undertaken major works on it, which will adapt our site to the needs and expectations of our customers, so that we can host them in more plea-sant conditions. We will also be gaining an improved working environment and better organised space, with interconnection between all the clean rooms. With improved heat and sound insulation, our new offices will be brighter and more modern. We have also made provision for new areas where people can get together and relax. This major construction project means that sometimes we have to be inventive to get from one building to another! I wish to thank you each and every one for being so adaptable. I’m convinced that the resultwill be beneficial to all.

Frank AiroldiCEO Intespace

• Intespace keeps watch on Sentinel 5P Sentinel 5P is part of Copernicus, Europe’s vast Earth observation programme, coordinated by ESA. It is the fifth satellite in the family and will be measuring traces of gases and atmospheric pollutants with unparalleled resolution: Sentinel, carrying the Tropomi instru¬ment developed by the Dutch Space subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space, will be launched in 2015 for a 7-year mission. This year however, it is docked at Intespace for environmental testing. Airbus DS UK chose Intespace for this campaign, which will involve several test facilities: the SIMLES chamber for the thermal vacuum tests, the MVS vibration facility for the Sinus tests, the large acoustic chamber for the acoustic test and the launcher separation shock test and the Coulomb anechoic chamber for RF compatibility with the launcher and for satellite self-compatibility. All these tests will be carried out ahead of the physical mea-surements required before the satellite leaves the Toulouse site.

More than ever, Intespace is the space testing expert

Sentinel 5P swells the ranks of the Airbus DS AS250 satellites tested by Intespace: Pleiades, SPOT 6 and 7 and KAZetSAT 1, successfully launched in late April from Kourou for Kazakhstan’s KGS consortium. The renewed confidence on the part of these high-level industrial players confirms us in our constant search for operational excellence.

Sentinel, 5P• CUSTOMER INTERVIEWPABLO GALLEGO, ELECNOR-DEIMOS (2014)

Elecnor-Deimos, a new customer for the Toulouse test centre.

The right resources, the right schedule and the right price. That is what brought Elecnor-Deimos to the Intespace test centre for final testing of the new Deimos-2.

Pablo Gallego, project engineer at Elecnor-Deimos feels at home in the Intespace test chambers. He had already worked with our teams on the Lares (VEGA) project when he was an engineer at ESA. He also collaborated with Intespace on telecom satellite projects with Arianespace and on telecom satellites and training for Airbus DS as part of an EADS CASA ESPACIO project.

The Spanish satellite manufacturer was able to appreciate the project assistance methodology adopted by Intespace, which proved to be ideally suited to their needs. It comprised the steps needed to see the project through to successful completion: upstream of the campaign, all the necessary time was devoted to preparing the tests so that the test resources were perfectly in phase with the Deimos-2 satellite. The two Intespace and DCM teams communicated very well throughout the campaign, which enabled them to easily overcome any test programming pro-blems that arose. “Thanks to its experience and its professionalism, we truly consider Intespace to be a partner with a customer approach which gives prio-rity to discussion and to the availability of its person-nel,” underlined Mr Pablo Gallego, Project Engineer for DCM.

“The test results are fully in line with our forecasts based on prior experience. This is most satisfying! I look forward to having the same motivated and committed teams next time. And of course the world-class test facilities!”

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• Faiveley TransportAll about doors!

For a number of years, Fabrice Parpirolles, test manager at Faiveley Transport, had been keen to work with Intespace, attracted by its rigorous approach and the quality of the facilities offered by a space testing specialist. In the end, it was the size of its specimen – 3.5 m – which enabled the French rail equipment manufac-turer to “test” Intespace’s services.This was because Intespace has the only chamber door in France large enough to enable the complete door of the ICE, the German high-speed train, to enter the test chamber.This campaign was devoted to EMC tests and was designed to validate door compliance with European electromagnetic wave susceptibility and emis-sion standards. The campaign comprised 10 tests, completed in two weeks.

New opportunities

For Intespace, this diversification to an equipment manufacturer from the rail world is a further step forward in the development of new markets. The Faiveley Transport campaign, which will be followed by another three by the end of the year, demonstrated a natural transfer of know-how from one industrial world to another and showed that the resources and methods were suitable for these projects. It also demonstrated the Intespace personnel’s keen interest in these products: many of them came to see this specimen of a completely different type. For their part, the Faiveley personnel also found themselves in a different world, surrounded by satellites and other flying objects!

Faiveley Transport, a future frequent visitor to the Intespace test benches ?

There is no doubt that both parties will rapidly get used to seeing each other, because Faiveley Transport, an equipment manufacturer which supplies the world’s leading train makers (Siemens, Bombardier, Alstom, etc.) is enjoying large-scale development across numerous product ranges, from large access doors, to air-conditioning, to black boxes… A new customer which offers fine prospects.

Faiveley Transport

> DYNAWORKS®• V7DynaWorks® V7, currently being trialled by beta-test customers, will shortly be available in the commercial version to meet the many requests from our customers, which drove the main upgrades of this software.

Innovative and accessible

The extensive work done to make the HMI (Human Machine Interface) particularly intuitive enables new users to rapidly feel at home with the software, while guaranteeing continuity for users of the previous versions, who will find everything that they already appreciated. It offers considerable context-sensitive help and assistance to guide the user naturally through this new environment, which adopts the operating logic of the Microsoft standards.

Optimised for each use

DynaWorks® V7 is organised into different simple and logical workspaces from a single main window, in order to improve the efficiency of each utilisation profile.The client/server architecture is of course retained and a fully-fledged administration module is now available for database administrators.

Open and flexible

The large number of analysis functions proposed and the simple macro editor in DynaWorks® V7 make it a powerful tool enabling experienced users to create their own processing tailored to the needs of each profession. This new processing can be managed and distributed collaboratively to all users.DynaWorks® V7 will propose several development kit levels which will enable the users to go as far as creating their own workspaces. Its openness also means that it can interface with numerous acquisition system and is compatible with numerous platforms (Windows 7 64 bit, Linux Red Hat 6, Solaris 10). You don’t even need Exceed for Windows anymore!

Not forgetting commercial modularity!

With DynaWorks® V7, although Intespace has focused on modularity in order to tailor its response as closely as possible to the needs of each user, it also spares a thought for the managers, by optimising prices according to utilisation, by means of flexible, scalable commercial packages, whether for stan-dard configurations or major account deployments.

Press contact : Julie Rivet05 61 28 12 83 / julie.rivet@intespace.fr