Pengarang: Jaime Estela

Raoul Velazco is Director of Research (DR) at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and the Head of the RIS (Robust Integrated Systems) team at TIMA (Techniques of Informatics and Microelectronics for integrated systems Architecture) Laboratory, in Grenoble-France. Dale Mc Morrow is Head of the Radiation Effects Section at the US Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, DC. Jaime Estela is CEO/CTO, Small-Satellite Technology, at Spectrum Aerospace Group, in Munich-Germering, Germany. Mr. Jaime Estela is an electronic engineer born in Lima-Peru. He worked at GSOC DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen for more than 11 years. In this period he gathered experience in satellite operations and systems engineering, and supported several LEO satellite missions like Terrasar-X, Tandem-X, Prisma A & B, Grace 1 & 2, CHAMP, BIRD, TET. Mr. Estela was also involved, as Ground Segment Engineer, in the ESA project Columbus, the European Module of the International Space Station (ISS). Furthermore he has supported Nanosatellite missions developed by Universities. He supported the project QB-50, an international constellation of 50 Cube Sats which will study the higher ionosphere in a low Earth orbit and during its re-entry as suborbital research platform. In 2010 he founded Spectrum ARC Gmb H and served as CEO/CTO. He is currently managing the company Spectrum Aerospace Technologies UG (Munich-Germany) and Spectrum Aerospace Research Corporation S.A.C. (Lima-Peru). Both companies belong to the Spectrum Aerospace Group. Mr. Estela has published and co-authored papers and articles in international journals and conference proceedings. The terminology Space-COTS, its concept and philosophy of qualifying commercial electronics for space applications was invented by Mr. Estela. The research study of Space-COTS, finding the middle point between having no qualified components in opposition to a fully qualified EEE parts.