CNES SME Label
Some 40% of the key space suppliers are SMEs, who play a vital role alongside big firms within the French industry base through their cutting-edge expertise, their impressive ability to innovate and their gret agility.
With a view to promoting the excellent work they do for the agency’s programmes, CNES offers key SME space suppliers an accreditation scheme for a broad range of products and services encompassing launchers, orbital systems, ground segments, satellites, balloons and spaceplanes. Accredited products or services must have proven their effectiveness—for example, at least one product in the range must have matured to a technology readiness level (TRL) of at least 6—and have business development potential.
The CNES-SME label scheme initiated at the start of this year is overseen by an inter-directorate accreditation committee led by the agency’s Procurement, Sales & Legal Affairs Directorate (DAJ), and by the cognizant technical departments within its other directorates. Activities submitted for accreditation are evaluated according to a range of criteria, chiefly their excellence in developing a type of product or their expertise related to a specific service.
list of labels
Adveotec
- Characterization and qualification of optoelectronic compoments for space applications.
- Test laboratory and evaluation programs
- Environmental tests (climatic, mechanical, vacuum, sun)
Afc-stab
Design and production of classic or self-heating molding tools for satellite composite reflectors
ALTER TECHNOLOGY FRANCE
Engineering and expertise on EEE components for space projects
- Qualification tests of power electronic components or modules, especially based on large gap technology (GaN & SiC)
- Engineering and tests of radiation effects on EEE components, modules and electronics boards
- Technological Analysis on EEE components
- Procurement of EEE components for space projects
ANYWAVES
Miniature and high-performance antennas for satellite constellations
CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES
Piezoelectric and electromagnetic space mechanism for scientific and earth observation instruments
Codechamp
Design, development and manufacturing of high optical encoders
Comat
- Development, manufacturing, integration and tests of space mechanisms
- Mechanical Assembly, Integration and Tests (AIT) of space technologies and sub-systems
- Expertise and development of tchnologies and experiments for microgravity
DACTEM DEVELOPPEMENT
- Electrical ground support equipment (EGSE)
- Expertise in the qualification of MIL-STD-1553 communication bus interfaces
elemca
Tests, analyses & expertise on space equipm (electronic boards / component and mechanical parts)
erems
Design and production of space flight electronics for platforms and payloads (computing units, power control and distribution units, front end electronic equipment, processing and data handling equipment)
geomatys
- Experience in elaboration of standards for interoperability of spatial information systems.
- ISO 19100 standards and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards
GISAÏA
Expertise and cataloging solutions for Earth observation products based on ARLAS-EO
- Framework for developing observation data catalogs (analytical approaches, data mining, visualization and other catalog functions)
grasp
Expertise in remote sensing of the atmosphere and the Earth's surface : algorithm development and processing of data from space sensors.
hemeria
- 30-kg-class smallsat provider
- Harness for satellites and launchers (design, manufacturing and integration)
INTRASPEC
Failure analysis, defect localisation, reliability, assessment of electronic, opto-electronic and optical components
isp system
- Design, development, manufacturing and maintenance in operational conditions of high performance mechanisms and actuators for stratopheric and tropospheric balloons
- Expertise in the design of deformable mirrors with electro-mechanical actuators for space applications
- Design, development and manufacturing of electro-mechanical actuators for high resolution space applications
M3SYSTEMs
- StellaNGC : GNSS Test and Measurements software suite
- Satellite Radio-Navigation Expertise
MAGELLIUM
- Expertise in Earth-observation algorithms (image quality, physics of signal, calibartion & in-orbit tests, sensor geometry, light image processing chains)
- Expertise in vision-based localization for space robotics (planetary and orbital)
MAP
Design, manufacturing and application of coatings for satellites and launchers
Mecano I.D.
- Mechanical and structural expertise
- Prime contractor of mechanichal and thermal subsystems for platform and payload
Mersen boostec (new)
Manufacturing of stable silicon carbide (SiC) mirrors and structures for space telescopes
Microtec
Design, development, manufacturing and maintenance in operational conditions of on-bord computers for stratospheric and tropospheric balloons
Nexio
- Development of simulation tools for the design and integration of antennas
- Expertise in the Radiofrequency and Microwave measurement of satellite antennas
Nimesis Technology
TRIGGY Product : Locking/unlocking device based on Shape Memory Alloys (SMA)
Pytheas Technology
Ultrasonic guided wave imaging for Structural Health Monitoring
- Piezoelectric sensors and signal processing for defect detection and localization
R.tech
- Expertise and engineering in the field of atmospheric re-entry.
- Aerothermodynamics, multiphysics mechanical and thermal coupling.
- Space debris.
SAP Micromecanique
Manufacturing of high-dimensional-accuracy products for radio frequencies on THz range
SERMA TECHNOLOGIES
Expertise in EEE components and boards for space projects
- Failure and construction analysis (DPA)
- Safety, reliability and qualification of EEE components, qualification of complete electronic boards
- Electrical and environmental tests (excluding radiation testing) of EEE components: passive, discrete, digital analog, mixed, power, RF, ASICs or hybrids
Soterem
- Developement of ground systems for ventilation, water air separation and cooling for microgravity applications
- Mechanical Assembly Integration and Tests of space technologies and sub systems
- Electrical motors - Brushless and stepper motors for space and cryogenic applications
steel electronique
Space electronics equipments (on-board computers, payload data handling, mass memory, ICU, new-space electronics, power units, proximity / front-end electronics, communication interface boards, electronic board manufacturing)
Syrlinks
Radio frequency equipment for cubesat and nanosatellite in low earth orbit
thurstme
- Iodine propulsion systems
- NPT30-I2 : fully integrated propulsion system based on the gridded ion thruster technology using solid iodine propellant
trad
- Radiation engineering, qualification and tests of equipment, components and materials to radiation effects
- Software products for dose calculation and radiation environment (OMERE, FASTRAD and RAYXPERT)
- R2COTS (Radiation & Reliability components COTS) : qualification and supply of electronic components with reliability and radiation data
french space industry capabilities catalogue