Universidade de Vigo

MicroWave Photonic Technologies for Communications and Sensing Applications in Space (MWP4SPACE)

Year: 2022

Principal researcher: Francisco Javier Díaz Otero

Financing: European Union, HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01

Period: 01/10/2022 - 30/09/2026

ID: 101073138

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101073138

https://www.mwp4space.com/

This industrial doctoral network will empower the next generation of specialists in Integrated Microwave Photonics (IMWP) devices and systems within the framework of satellite and space applications. The scientific objectives are to develop, introduce, and promote IMWP technologies for secure and reconfigurable networks of LEO and MEO satellites for telecommunications (SATCOM) and EO.

The project consortium includes 10 other partners, 5 academic and 5 industrial, from 6 countries: Bright Photonics (NL), MBryonics (IE), National, InterUniversity Consortium for Telecommunications (IT), Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna (IT), Dublin City University (IE), University College Cork (IE), Alter (ES), Uni Ghent (BE), III-V Lab (FR), Camgraphic (IT).