Consortium

The Powersat consortium is made up from 8 partners from 7 European countries (France, Sweden, Ireland, Romania, Greece, Italy and Spain) with a wide enough geographical spread. The partners are:

1 major industrial global players: Thales Research & Technology
2 SMEs: Fadec AB (FADO), Blue Synergy SL (BLUE SYNERGY)
7 academic institutions : University College Cork University of Ireland (UCC), Institutul National De Cercetaredezvoltare Pentru Microtechnologie (IMT), Uppsala Universitet (UU), Universita Politecnica Delle Marche (UNIVPM), Idryma Technologias Kaierevnas (FORTH), Greece

Thales Research & Technology (TRT), France

General Partner description: THALES (formerly THOMSON-CSF) Research and Technology – France located near Paris, is the main multidisciplinary research unit...

Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece

General Partner description: At the academic level, FORTH is strongly collaborating with University of Crete and provides training for undergraduate...

National Institute for Research and Development in Micro Technologies (IMT), Romania

IMT will engage to exploit and disseminate the results, spread excellence to the scientific community and the large public through...

Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Italy

The research activity of the “electromagnetics (microwave/RF/photonics) group” at the “Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione” of the “Università Politecnica delle Marche”,...

Tyndall-UCC (Tyndall), Ireland

The department of Tyndall National Institute (Tyndall-UCC), University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Cork was created in 2004 at...

Uppsala Universitet (UU), Sweden

The participants from Uppsala University belongs to the Microwave Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering. UU has a broad...

Blue Synergy

The main markets addressed by Blue Synergy are Flexible electronics market, electronic manufacturing industry, telecommunications industry. Blue Synergy personnel has...

Fadec AB (FADO), Sweden

he market of SATellite COMmunication (SATCOM) is ever pushing the limits of connectivity for earthly users, as well as optimising...

Powersat Coordinator

Dr. Afshin Ziaei

afshin.ziaei@thalesgroup.com

The Powersat project is funded by HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDER CHALLENGES-01 under the grant agreement 101162320

About Powersat

POWERSAT is developing a new energy harvesting platform that captures unused solar infrared (IR) energy and microwave spillover from satellite antennas. It uses rectennas to gather energy from various microwave bands to power low-energy satellite electronics. The project includes five demonstrators and aims to connect satellites through low-power inter-satellite links while reducing overall satellite weight and launch costs.