Space Applications Services

Space Applications is an independent, privately owned Belgian company founded in 1987. We operate primarily in Europe and the USA with an office in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, a subsidiary in Houston, Texas and a presence in various other locations. We research and develop innovative systems, solutions and products and provide services to the aerospace and security markets and related industries: o Specify, design, develop, integrate and deliver mission critical systems, robotic systems, ground segments, command and control centres and spacecraft payloads. o Provide end-to-end services that include the development and operation of scientific, engineering and software solutions to meet the needs of the customer, such as a complete space system. o Provide expert support and consultancy services for complex, multi-disciplinary and specialist science, engineering, training and operations activities. o We work for institutional and commercial customers in the following domains: manned and unmanned spacecraft, launch/re-entry vehicles, robotics, the environment and security. A significant part of these activities is the development of advanced information systems. Space Applications Services has proven experience in the space and terrestrial robotics applications where localisation using classical image processing, mathematical filtering approaches and fusion of sensors ( Ex. Vision, Lidar, IMU/AHRS etc.) have been developed and deployed. The backbone of the data fusion solutions is based on the Infuse Common Data Fusion Framework (CDFF) which is a framework consisting of multiple sensor data fusion methods.
Point of contactshashank.govindaraj@spaceapplications.com