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Graham Warwick December 02, 2020 The concept of a minimum viable product is not new to aviation. It is how the industry started. But as aircraft technology has advanced, customers have come to expect more than a minimum capability. Along comes Silicon Valley's startup culture, with its drive to find a foothold from which to launch a new technology—a less-than-perfected product that can be developed quickly to disrupt or create a market. How well is that going for aviation? From autonomy and artificial intelligence (AI) to hybrid-electric and hydrogen propulsion, is there a viable product taking shape that can perform a valuable mission? Autonomy The vision: unmanned cargo aircraft plying the skies to meet the ever-growing express logistics needs of the e-commerce giants. The reality: a pair of startups that are converting the Cessna Caravan into a remotely piloted regional cargo aircraft as a first step. The goal is that supervised autonomy would enable several aircraft to be managed by one remote pilot on the ground, increasing aircraft utilization and reducing operating costs. Reliable Robotics and Xwing plan to operate their aircraft manned initially, the autonomy advising the pilot while accumulating the experience required to certify the system. The companies hope to begin commercial flights by 2022. There are plenty of startups pursuing the express logistics market with unmanned cargo aircraft, but by targeting an existing market—several hundred Caravans fly as freight feeders for package carriers—and modifying an already certified aircraft and taking a staged approach to introducing autonomy, these two companies hope to lower the certification hurdles. Artificial Intelligence The vision: automated aircraft flown by machine-learning algorithms that replicate the skills of human pilots but not their mistakes. The reality: The initial approach is to use AI to help the pilot in high-workload phases of flight, such as landing. Swiss startup Daedalean is developing a camera-based system to provide safe landing guidance for general-aviation aircraft and vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles. Airbus has the longer-term goal of bringing autonomy to its commercial aircraft but has started in the same place, demonstrating fully automatic vision-based takeoffs and landings with an A350 in April. By tackling one well-defined subtask of visual flying, and proving the system can be safer than human piloting, Daedalean hopes to create the path to certification of AI for safety-critical applications. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency, which has been working with the startup to frame the rules, expects the first AI applications to be certified in 2022. Hybrid-Electric The vision: propulsion systems that overcome the limitations of batteries to deliver the economic and emissions benefits of electrification in larger, faster, longer-range aircraft. The reality: Starting small, startups Ampaire and VoltAero are testing power trains in converted Cessna 337 Skymasters. Ampaire's route to market is to modify existing aircraft, beginning with the Skymaster as the four-seat, 200-mi. Electric EEL but moving on to the 19-seat de Havilland Canada Twin Otter. France's VoltAero, meanwhile, is taking the clean-sheet approach with plans for a family of hybrid-electric aircraft with up to 10 seats and 800-mi. range. Delivery of the initial four-seat Cassio 330 version is planned for 2023. While batteries have improved enough to make pure-electric urban air taxis feasible, longer ranges are still out of reach. But there are startups working to field all-electric nine- and 19-seat aircraft within just a couple of years of the first hybrid-electric types. It remains to be seen whether hybrid propulsion is just a stopgap, as with cars, or a long-term market niche. Hydrogen The vision: zero-emissions flight for aircraft of all sizes and ranges. The reality: adapting automotive fuel-cell technology to modify regional turboprops and kick-start the market for green hydrogen as an aviation fuel. ZeroAvia made the first flight of a six-seater with a fuel-cell power train from Cranfield, England, in September and plans a 300-mi. demonstration flight. The startup's route to market is to modify existing 10- and 20-seaters to hydrogen-electric propulsion, aiming for its first certification within three years. Universal Hydrogen is more ambitious, targeting the 50-seat de Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 for conversion to hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion for market entry by 2024. Introducing a new fuel to aviation is an infrastructure issue. By starting small, the startups believe the challenge of producing green hydrogen can be made manageable. But to have an impact on aviation's contribution to climate change, hydrogen needs to be scaled up to larger and larger aircraft as quickly as possible. https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/emerging-technologies/aviation-startups-making-progress-can-they-disrupt-industry

Andrew Eversden WASHINGTON — Experts expect President-elect Joe Biden's administration to build on the Trump administration's investments in emerging technologies, while adding to research and development budgets in the Defense Department and across the federal government. The incoming Biden administration signaled throughout the campaign that basic research and development funding would be a priority. Biden wrote in Foreign Affairs he would make research and development a “cornerstone” of his presidency and pointed to the United States having the “greatest research universities in the world.” “It's basic research that's the area where you get the breakthroughs, and you need long-term, sustained investments to build up a strong S&T base,” said Martijn Rasser, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security's technology and national security program. Biden's R&D investment is an expected change from the Trump administration's approach, which experts have noted is narrower in scope and focused on harnessing private sector innovation. “The reality is the U.S. private sector has eclipsed the government, which in some ways that can be good,” said Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities. “The private sector can move with greater agility than the government, but the private sector may not be focusing on developing those exquisite technologies that we need for the war fighter.” Experts told C4ISRNET they expect the Biden administration to invest more money in basic research areas and to reform immigration laws that slowed the innovation pipeline from abroad to the United States. “China is closing in. They are spending every year more and more on R&D. They will soon, if not already, be spending as much as we are, if not more on R&D,” Langevin said told C4ISRNET. “Congress has woken up to this problem.” Basic research Perhaps the most likely area the Biden administration is poised to change is basic research and development funding. According to annual reports from the Congressional Research Service, the Trump administration consistently proposed top-line cuts to federal research and development in yearly budget proposals. This included the fiscal 2021 budget proposal's $13.8 billion decrease in defense R&D over the fiscal 2020 funding enacted by Congress. While the Pentagon has often been spared from such cuts, the Trump administration has also suggested trimming the defense-related basic research budget line — money that is a “substantial source of federal funds for university R&D,” according to the Congressional Research Service. The White House's FY21 defense-related basic research budget line asked for a reduction of about 11 percent from FY20 enacted, or a $284.2 million decrease. Biden's campaign platform calls for a four-year investment of $300 billion in R&D for new technology such as 5G, artificial intelligence, advanced materials and electric cars. “A nation speaks to and identifies its priorities by where it puts its research dollars, where it puts its money,” Langevin said. “Basic research has to be more of a priority, and that's something I'm going to encourage the Biden administration to focus on.” Michèle Flournoy, thought to be a leading contender to become the next secretary of defense, has also written about the need to increase investment in emerging technologies to counter China. In Foreign Affairs in June, Flournoy wrote that “resilient battlefield networks, artificial intelligence to support faster decision-making, fleets of unmanned systems, and hypersonic and long-range precision missiles” will “ultimately determine military success.” “Continuing to underinvest in these emerging capabilities will ultimately have dire costs for U.S. deterrence,” she wrote. Congressional and think tank reports published during the Trump administration's tenure called for an increase in basic research funding. A report from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's strategic tech and advanced research subpanel, led by Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., recommended bumping up federal research and development funding from 0.7 percent to 1.1 percent of gross domestic product, or an increase of $146 billion to $230 billion. A report by the Council on Foreign Relations from 2019 applauded the Trump administration's requested increases in funding for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, now funded at $3.46 billion, and the Defense Innovation Unit, for which the Trump administration requested $164 million. Laying the groundwork Initiatives started under the Trump administration did provide a groundwork on which the Biden administration can build. Under the Trump administration, DARPA kicked off a $1.5 billion microelectronics effort. In artificial intelligence, the administration launched the American AI Initiative. However, the Council on Foreign Relations criticized that effort because it had no funding and left agencies to prioritize artificial intelligence R&D spending without metrics, while also drawing funds from other research areas. The administration also made an $1.2 billion investment in quantum information science. “The Trump administration started bringing national attention and federal focus to many of these technologies,” said Lindsey Sheppard, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “I hope to see from the Biden administration perhaps a more cohesive guiding strategy for all of these pieces.” While the Trump administration has started many initiatives, the Council on Foreign Relations report also criticized the Trump administration's innovation strategy as an “incremental and limited approach,” writing that “action does not match the language officials use to describe the importance of AI to U.S. economic and national security.” While investment in future technology is important, defense budgets are expected to stay flat or decrease in the coming years. In her Foreign Affairs article, Flournoy acknowledge that the budgetary reality will require “tough tradeoffs.” Experts agree. “R&D programs are going to have to start being able to consistently, clearly articulate justifications for their budgets and the returns on investment,” Sheppard said. But the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need for increased investments in research and development, Himes and Langevin argued. Both lawmakers identified biothreats as something they fear for the future. Biological threats are one area that DARPA — an organization Langevin pointed to as a major federal R&D success story — has triumphantly address. Commercial partners from DARPA's 3-year-old pandemic prevention platform program announced they developed a COVID-19 therapeutic using new techniques. “There's absolutely going to be a rethink,” Himes told C4ISRNET in an interview. “Are we correctly allocating money between the possibility that there could be a pandemic that kills a million Americans, versus the possibility that we're going to have to fight the Russians in the Fulda Gap? I think there's going be a lot of thinking about that. And there should be thinking about that because our money should go to those areas where there's the highest probability of dead Americans.” Immigration innovation Another way to improve American innovation in critical future technologies is by allowing highly skilled foreigners to work in the United States. Biden has hinted at changes that will affect American innovation through the expected reversals of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, which limited high-skilled workers from legally working in the country. The Biden administration's platform states it wants to reform the H-1B visa process that the Trump administration restricted, much to the chagrin of American tech companies, which use the program to hire top talent from abroad. Think tanks have recommended reforming the current U.S. immigration policy to attract international students, entrepreneurs and high-skilled workers because of the innovative ideas they provide. For example, an analysis by Georgetown University's Center for Security and Technology found that 68 percent of the United States' top 50 artificial intelligence companies were co-founded by immigrants, most of whom came the U.S. as students. “A lot of the Trump administration's policies — we're shooting ourselves in the foot making it so much harder for people to come here,” said Rasser, who wrote a report for CNAS last year calling for H1-B caps to be increased. “Because of the fact that people want to come to the United States to live and work, that's one of our greatest competitive advantages. It's something I expect the Biden administration to reverse.” https://www.c4isrnet.com/smr/transition/2020/11/29/how-the-biden-administration-is-expected-to-approach-tech-research-and-development/

Plusieurs spécialistes de l'innovation se sont alliés pour créer Blast, le premier programme français d'accélération de jeunes pousses à fort contenu technologique dans les domaines de l'aéronautique, du spatial et de la défense afin de « faire émerger et d'accompagner une vingtaine de start-up par an ». Le programme réunit Starburst, premier accélérateur mondial dédié aux start-up de l'aéronautique, du spatial et de la défense (ASD), l'Office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales (Onera), l'École Polytechnique et la SATT Paris-Saclay, dont le but est de développer la mise en oeuvre des innovations issues de la recherche académique. À l'origine du projet, qui sera formellement lancé en janvier, le constat du « manque d'un programme constitué en France dédié à l'accompagnement des projets deep tech (portant sur des technologies très avancées, NDLR) pour le secteur » de l'aéronautique, de la défense et du spatial, expliquent ses promoteurs dans un communiqué. Si les jeunes pousses dans ces domaines sont particulièrement actives aux États-Unis ou encore en Israël, le mouvement doit être « être renforcé en Europe et particulièrement en France », estiment-ils. D'autant que l'aéronautique, le spatial et la défense « portent par nature les caractéristiques du deep tech: de fortes barrières à l'entrée, un cycle de développement long et complexe et un caractère disruptif fort en cas de succès ». Des levées de fonds d'amorçage prévues Le programme doit permettre d'accompagner des projets correspondant aux besoins de l'industrie et de les pérenniser par des contrats commerciaux et des collaborations avec les industriels ou instituts publics. « L'idée, c'est de créer plus de start-up pour alimenter les futurs programmes aéronautiques, spatiaux et de défense », résume François Chopard, fondateur de Starburst, qui assurera la coordination du programme. Les domaines visés sont notamment ceux de l'aviation décarbonée, les plateformes de mobilité aérienne urbaines, l'intelligence artificielle, les technologies portant sur l'autonomie (capteurs, fusion de données), les services informatiques dématérialisés (cloud) sécurisés ou encore le spatial. Des levées de fonds « d'amorçage de deux à trois millions d'euros » sont prévues. Blast est l'un des dix programmes sélectionnés par le gouvernement à l'issue d'un appel à projets d'accompagnement de start-up à fort contenu technologique dans le cadre du Programme d'investissements d'avenir (PIA) Doté d'un montant maximal global de 9,6 millions d'euros, le soutien public, via Bpifrance, permettra des subventions allant jusqu'à 50% du coût du projet pendant les deux premières années. https://www.frenchweb.fr/blast-un-programme-soutenu-par-starburst-qui-veut-faire-exploser-les-startups-francaises-du-spatial/410612

November 26, 2020 Imaginé par l'Onera, Polytechnique, la SATT Saclay et l'accélérateur Starburst, ce programme ambitionne d'accompagner 20 start-up par an. Blast. Explosion, en anglais. C'est aussi l'acronyme de « Boost and Leverage Aerospace and defence Technologies », le nom d'un nouveau programme français d'accélération, spécifiquement destiné aux start-up de l'aéronautique, du spatial et de la défense dont les idées, innovations et briques technologiques intéressent ces industries de souveraineté. À lire aussi :L'armée française sécurise une pépite de la tech convoitée par la CIA À l'origine de cette initiative, un constat en forme de paradoxe. La France ne manque ni d'ingénieurs, ni de laboratoires, ni d'universités, ni de centres de recherche au meilleur niveau mondial, et pourtant cette force de frappe peine à engendrer des start-up en grand nombre. De même, la France dispose d'une industrie aéronautique, spatiale et militaire de classe mondiale mais qui n'a pas toujours la ligne directe pour se connecter au monde des start-up. Et il n'existe pas de programme spécifique pour faire grandir les jeunes pousses du «deep-tech», les innovations de rupture utilisant des technologies avancées, dans ces trois domaines. Lire à partir de la source.... https://thereadersplanet.fr/startup-news/166937/lancement-de-blast-un-programme-dedie-aux-start-up-de-la-defense-et-de-laerospatial/

by Pat Host The US Air Force (USAF) is requesting information from industry about directed energy (DE) capabilities for counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) technologies. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Architecture and Integration Directorate (AFLCMC/XA) seeks to better characterise the technological, manufacturing, and performance capabilities of the industrial base to develop and produce upgrades to DE prototypes and related C-UAS subsystems. The directorate will use this information to inform its trade space analysis of solutions for engagement and mission level modelling and simulation (M&S), as well as programme cost estimates for potential future technical maturation of DE C-UAS systems. The USAF wants to research the industrial base for C-UAS capabilities related to fixed-site Air Base Air Defense (ABAD) against potential Group 1 and 2 UAS threats, which weigh 25 kg or less. These threats may have characteristics such as small size; low radar cross sections; low infrared (IR) or radio frequency (RF) signatures, or no RF signatures at all; the ability to hover; and low-altitude flight capabilities, which may render them difficult to detect and defeat. Additionally, these UASs are typically either controlled remotely from a ground control station (GCS) or can fly pre-programmed routes. Recent and pending procurements of DE C-UAS weapons require even further development and improvement, including connected and related, but not limited to, subsystems such as command-and-control (C2) suites, radar, and electronic warfare (EW). https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/usaf-issues-rfi-for-directed-energy-c-uas-technologies

VOLUME 21, No 40 22 octobre 2020 Événements à venir Occasions d'affaires Actualités Des occasions d'affaires en or pour les PME manufacturières québécoises! Lancement de la nouvelle plateforme de finition robotisée BF-X 500 Chef de file en automatisation industrielle depuis 25 ans, AV&R est une société d'ingénierie spécialisée en robotique qui compte 70 employés œuvrant à travers le monde Le Groupe DCM acquiert la société Electro-Kut Le Groupe DCM, une entreprise québécoise oeuvrant dans de multiples domaines de l'aéronautique, est fier d'annoncer l'acquisition récente de la société Electro-Kut Précision ADM Québec investit dans une nouvelle usine à Gatineau Précision ADM Québec investira plus de 2 millions de dollars dans sa nouvelle usine de Gatineau afin de créer le plus large inventaire d'écouvillons nasopharyngés au Canada pour le dépistage de la Covid-19 Bonne nouvelle, la relève est prête chez CDID! Après 27 ans, le président fondateur, M. Régis Drouin, quittera l'aventure de CDID pour se consacrer à son nouveau projet : la retraite ! Salon connexion 100 % virtuel Événements Les Affaires – Assistez à l'événement le plus important au Québec entièrement dédié à la transformation numérique les 10, 11, 12 novembre prochain en ligne! Lancement 3DExperience par PBI Découvrez la toute dernière version de 3DExperience, le 28 octobre prochain à 10 h! Les bonnes nouvelles de l'industrie Bombardier, Technosub, Magna, Fisker Inc., Airmedic, Sparta Industriel,TransFab Métal, Robotec Occasions d'affaires Occasions d'affaires privées 2020SC043 – URGENT – recherche Tube aluminium carré 3″ x 3″, 1/8″ mur, rayon extérieur 3/16″ Une entreprise du Centre-du-Québec recherche: Occasions d'affaires Appels d'offres publics 2020NR366 – Structure d'acier pour escalier Fermeture : 06-11-2020 2020NR365 – Fourniture d'un tour et d'une fraiseuse CNC Machineries 2020NR364 – Remise en service d'un vérin de type Ford-Smith Énergie (production et distribution) 2020NR363 – Usinage de pièces, pour train Transport (fabrication de matériel de), sauf aérospatiale 2020NR362 – Métaux ouvrés architecturaux Construction 2020NR361 – Système de levage scénique Sport et loisirs (manufacturiers) 2020NR360 – Acquisition et installation d'ameublement de fourgonnette Transport (fabrication de matériel de), sauf aérospatiale 2020NR359 – Fourniture et installation de panneau électrique, pour sous-station d'usine de filtration Environnement 2020NR358 – Aménagement d'1 fourgonnette avec monte-charge et d'1 mini-fourgonnette Transport (fabrication de matériel de), sauf aérospatiale 2020NR357 – Entretien préventif, correctif ou d'urgence d'appareils de levage Énergie (production et distribution) 2020NR356 – Entretien correctif et préventif de vérins hydrauliques Énergie (production et distribution)

Hello, Similar to IDEaS, the NATO Innovation Hub is a community where experts from around the world collaborate to tackle NATO challenges and design solutions. The Hub has recently launched a challenge seeking innovative solutions that address how trust in autonomous systems can be established and strengthened. Solutions can include any combination of methodologies, concepts, techniques and technologies. These challenges are open to all, including the Canadian innovation community. Submit your solutions by November 17, 2020: https://www.innovationhub-act.org/challenge-intro If you have questions, contact the NATO Innovation Hub by email: contact@InnovationHub-act.org Thank you, The IDEaS Team

Air accidents have decreased in recent years, but when they do occur, the crew's workload is usually at its highest level. Therefore, augmenting crew performance during high workload periods is of great importance and can help maintain flight safety. Aircrew workloads peak when faced with a combination of unpredictable situations: meteorological conditions; high-density traffic; system failures; and flight operations like take-off, climb, descent, approach and landing. The amount of information and number of actions that need to be processed by the crew may become unmanageable, affecting flight safety. The EU-funded VOICI project addressed this threat by developing an intelligent 'natural crew assistant' for the cockpit environment. The system comprises three main technologies, namely sound recording, speech recognition and artificial intelligence. This includes a cockpit-embedded speech-processing system that understands aviation terminology, as well as an array of low-noise optical microphones and optimised array processing for it. The VOICI system also features a new and more efficient speech synthesis, adapted to aviation terminology and noise levels. For further information see the IDTechEx report on Voice, Speech, Conversation-Based User Interfaces 2019-2029: Technologies, Players, Markets. Assessed under realistic conditions Project partners aimed to provide a proof-of-concept demonstrator capable of listening to all communications in the cockpit, both between crew members, and between crew and air traffic control. "The VOICI system should recognise and interpret speech content, interact with the crew, and fulfil crew requests to simplify crew tasks and reduce cognitive workload," outlines project coordinator, Tor Arne Reinen. Researchers also developed a realistic audio evaluation environment for technology experiments. This facilitated the development of the crew assistant and enabled evaluation of its performance, including the speech capture and recognition technologies for use in a noisy cockpit, together with the intelligent dialogue system with automatic speech synthesis as its main output. The audio testing environment involved a 3D physical model of a Falcon 2000S cockpit, including loudspeaker reproduction of noise recordings from a real flight. "We have demonstrated that the crew assistant is feasible under the very high noise levels of an aviation cockpit," Reinen explains. Multiple benefits Speech capture is achieved through both the pilot's headset and an ambient microphone array. Speech recognition using deep neural networks and the dialog system were developed explicitly for the cockpit environment and include aviation terminology and robustness to high levels of background noise. The systems function independently of cloud-based systems and employ dedicated language models for the cockpit scenario. According to Reinen, all the algorithms underlying the dialog system have been implemented and tested: from the Natural Language Understanding unit that understands natural requests to the Dialogue Core which handles the conversation flow. "Particular emphasis has been placed on the ability of the voice assistant to use contextual data," he notes. By reducing crew workload, VOICI will contribute to optimisation of operations, flight safety and crew awareness; better maintenance; reduced cost of operations; and generally higher efficiency and lower stress. "VOICI comprises both small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and research institutes, and cooperation within the consortium will contribute to innovation and job creation," Reinen points out. https://www.onartificialintelligence.com/articles/21880/speech-recognition-and-ai-help-take-the-pressure-off-aircrew?rsst2id=193

Par Pierre Cheminade Défendre et promouvoir la position de la région bordelaise dans la compétition mondiale de la mobilité spatiale, c'est l'ambition du SpaceHub lancé conjointement par des acteurs publics et privés dont la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux Métropole, ArianeGroup et Dassault Aviation. Malgré la vente d'avions Rafale à la Grèce, qui bénéficiera directement à l'usine Dassault de Mérignac, la filière régionale de l'aéronautique-spatial-défense (ASD) a bien besoin de signaux positifs dans un contexte compliqué, tout particulièrement pour les avionneurs civils et leurs sous-traitants. Alors que Technowest vient de lancer un appel à projets pour repérer et accompagner trois nouvelles startups de l'ASD, le conseil régional de Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux Métropole, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, ArianeGroup et Dassault Aviation se mobilisent pour fédérer les énergies en matière spatiale. Une nouvelle initiative après que la présidence bordelaise de la Communauté des villes Ariane en 2020 a subi le confinement et la crise sanitaire de plein fouet tout comme le festival Big Bang. La démarche SpaceHub, présentée le 7 septembre en présence d'une myriade de partenaires publics et privés (*), vise à ainsi à démontrer que le territoire tient son rang en matière de mobilités spatiales dans un contexte plus concurrentiel que jamais avec les progrès à marche forcée réalisés par les acteurs du New Space. Lire aussi : Le New Space veut faire de l'espace un business comme les autres Et le nouveau né Spacehub affiche ses ambitions sans détour : "Êre un acteur d'excellence de niveau international dans le domaine de la mobilité spatiale, en particulier les vols suborbitaux, le transport spatial et la rentrée atmosphérique". close volume_off Deux activités seront développées de concert pour mêler étroitement recherche fondamentale et applications concrètes : un centre d'analyse prospective dédié à la mobilité spatiale travaillant avec les universités et grandes écoles françaises et internationales ainsi qu'avec les agences spatiales, civiles et de défense ; un centre d'exploration et d'accélération des concepts spatiaux "pour aboutir rapidement aux meilleures solutions, obtenir des financements associés à ses projets innovants et générer de nouvelles opportunités d'affaires." Le tout dans une logique d'ouverture et de collaboration. Une démarche qui s'inscrit également dans une logique de relance économique à moyen terme tant les innovations et technologies développées initialement pour le spatial se traduisent, dans un second temps, dans l'économie et les usages plus grand public, de la communication à la santé en passant par l'environnement et la mobilité. Lire aussi : "La Lune est un très bon terrain d'entraînement avant d'aller sur Mars" (*) Les partenaires industriels du projet (ArianeGroup et Dassault Aviation), le CEA, les représentants de l'écosystème de la recherche (Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Inria, Chaire défense & aérospatial de Sciences Po Bordeaux, etc.), des acteurs majeurs soutenant le projet (Thales, Cnes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Academic Space Center, l'association Hyfar-Ara et la Fondation Bordeaux Université). https://objectifaquitaine.latribune.fr/business/aeronautique-et-defense/2020-09-17/avec-spacehub-la-region-bordelaise-veut-tenir-son-rang-dans-la-mobilite-spatiale-857467.html