Courses
I teach space systems and space networking in three courses, in Germany, France and Argentina. They draw on one pool of lectures, so several topics come back from one course to the next. The matrix below shows what each course covers, including the lectures my colleagues give.
The courses and their teaching teams
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Space Informatics
Teaching teamJuan A. Fraire, Holger Hermanns, Santiago Henn, Gregory Stock, Andreas Schmidt
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Satellite Communications and Navigation
Teaching teamJuan A. Fraire, André Terrasse, François-Xavier Marmet (CNES), Olivier Bompis (CNES), Benoit Coeugnet
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Space Industry and Space Systems
Teaching teamJuan A. Fraire, Santiago Henn, Victoria Marinelli (CONAE), Laura Quintana (CONAE), Marcelo Bisogni (CONAE)
What each course covers
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01Missions and the space sectorSaarlandINSA LyonUBA
Why we go to space, who builds and pays for it, and how New Space changed the sector.
- Space applicationsSaarlandUBA
- New Space and distributed missionsSaarlandUBA
- Satellite markets, operators and actorsINSA Lyon
02Orbits and astrodynamicsSaarlandINSA LyonUBA
How satellites move, and how to put them where a mission needs them.
- Physics and orbitsSaarlandINSA LyonUBA
- Propagation and perturbationsSaarlandINSA LyonUBA
- Launch and manoeuvresSaarland
- Trajectory designSaarland
- Constellation designSaarland
03Space technology and environmentSaarlandUBA
What a satellite is made of, the environment it has to survive, and the software used to simulate it.
- Space environmentSaarland
- Satellite technologies and subsystemsSaarlandUBA
- Attitude determination and controlUBA
- Computers in spaceSaarland
- Simulation and analysis tools: STK, GMAT, Orekit, CesiumSaarlandUBA
04Systems engineeringUBA
Turning a mission idea into requirements, interfaces and a plan, and keeping its risks in check.
- Technical planning and requirementsUBA
- Interfaces and risk managementUBA
- Mission design with SMADUBA
- Space project managementUBA
05Space communicationsSaarlandINSA Lyon
Getting bits across a radio link that is long, weak and shared.
- Signals, modulation and codingSaarlandINSA Lyon
- Link budgetSaarlandINSA Lyon
- Multiplexing and multiple accessSaarland
- Command and telemetry links, antennas and frequency bandsINSA Lyon
07Space networkingSaarlandINSA Lyon
Protocols for links that are long, intermittent, or both.
- Space network architectures and protocolsSaarlandINSA Lyon
- Delay-tolerant networkingSaarland
- Contact graph routingSaarland
- Transport and congestion controlSaarland
- Routing in LEO constellationsSaarland
- Opportunistic networkingSaarland
- Direct-to-satellite IoTSaarland
- Direct-to-deviceSaarland
08Mission operationsSaarlandUBA
Running a mission once it flies: planning the passes, sending commands, reading telemetry.
- Operations across the mission life cycleUBA
- Commanding, telemetry and data productsSaarlandUBA
- Mission control with Yamcs, hands-onSaarland
09Space informaticsSaarland
Algorithms that plan and check space systems: optimisation, model checking and learning.
- Linear and dynamic programmingSaarland
- Model checking with timed automataSaarland
- Contact plan designSaarland
- Battery-aware schedulingSaarland
- Sustainable spaceSaarland
- Uncertainty-aware routingSaarland
- Machine learningSaarland
- AI for constellation operationsSaarland