Payload Engineering Section

The section’s responsibilities include:

• In coordination with other sections and TIA, definition, evaluation and promotion of advanced concepts for RF payloads for future telecom missions.

• Collaboration with equipment and antenna sections on the assessment of new technologies for future telecom payloads

• Support, on payload aspects to telecom mission projects

• Contribution, in coordination with navigation, equipment and antenna sections and D/NAV to the definition, evaluation and promotion of advanced navigation payloads for future evolutions of GALILEO and EGNOS missions.

• Support to GALILEO and EGNOS projects, on the area of navigation payload and signal in space performance.

• Promotion, in coordination with Earth Observation directorate of advanced new concepts for RF sensing instruments ( i.e. SAR, altimeters, scatterometers, radiometers, GNSS-R…)

• Support to EO projects on the area of microwave instruments

• Development and maintenance of software tools for payload and remote sensing instruments, for both internal R&D and support to projects.