At Initium Space, we don’t just talk about expertise — we demonstrate it through the projects we deliver. Our work spans consulting, studies, and technology development, supporting ESA, industry primes, SMEs, and research institutes across Europe.
The ESA-HARS project is a feasibility study performed under the coordination of SpaceTec Partners – Belgium (currently NOVASPACE) and in partnership with Reflex Aerospace – Germany. The project involved the study of using high aspect ratio satellites (flat satellites) for different missions and applications.
The role of Initium Space was in performing the use case definition and the trade-off and selection of several use cases to be further investigated by the consortium. At the end of the activity, a SWOT analysis was performed and a set of recommendations were presented to the European Space Agency (ARTES program).
Initium Space is a subcontractor in the LOADER project (Lifting and Offloading Add-on Device for EL3/Argonaut Resources), with the Romanian research institute COMOTI as prime contractor. The project aims to develop a heavy lifting device (i.e, a crane) to be part of the Argonaut Moon lander. Initium Space is involved in all project phases, from requirements consolidation through development and testing. Some relevant contributions: use cases and scenarios analysis, management of the initial requirements definition and consolidation, responsibility for the system dust mitigation strategy, CONOPS definition and support to the verification and validation activities.
The LUREPOS mission is an ESA-funded lunar Phase-0 study, part of the Small Missions for Lunar Exploration initiative, that aims to develop a novel relative navigation concept for lunar exploration, applying relativity theory to improve positioning accuracy and robustness for future missions. A secondary objective of the mission is the calibration and testing of use cases for the Moonlight communication and navigation constellation as well as for the future similar NASA and JAXA constellations. Initium Space played a key role in the study by supporting the prime (Aalta Lab from Slovenia) with the mission architecture and mission concepts, as well as leading the coordination and authoring of major parts of the Programmatic Dossier, ensuring coherence and alignment with ESA standards and objectives.
Initium Space provided support in the establishment of the cleanroom operational procedures to a Romanian research institute. The procedures covered the operations, maintenance, exploitation and best practices of a newly constructed 100 sqm ISO7/ISO8 cleanroom. Initium Space provided as well assistance with the research and selection of the tools and equipment required for the cleanroom operations.
The procedures were developed in compliance to ECSS and ISO 14644 standards.
Initium Space supported various international companies (France, US, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia) with the proposal writing process for European Space Agency Invitations To Tender.
The support was in areas like project management planning (Work Breakdown Structure, Work Package Definition), product assurance and documentation planning (deliverables, documentation, compliance to ECSS) and financial planning (elaboration and advice on PSS files compilation).