DRIVER OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
HISPASAT aspires to become a benchmark provider of innovative services and products that ensure its profitability and growth and enable it to respond to both the current and future needs and challenges facing its clients.
Accordingly, the company is firmly committed to R&D&I by virtue of which it is constantly seeking improvements to the solutions it offers the market and to the attributes of its satellite fleet.
However, these efforts do not only result in improved services for clients, but also contribute to bringing the benefits of the new solutions to the end customer, who enjoy the enhanced telecommunications services that facilitate their daily communication activities and broaden their leisure opportunities.
Nonetheless, innovation would be impossible without the human talent behind it. HISPASAT encourages technological talent by supporting those people who wish to follow a career in this field and by promoting the knowledge of the technological professions with especial focus in female STEM vocations.
COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION
Innovation for the market
In terms of innovation, HISPASAT opts for investigating new applications, the development of advanced satellite-related initiatives and services. Indeed, it takes part in several national and international projects with a highly technological and innovative content.
The company seeks to make a distinguishing contribution in its sphere of activity, both with respect to the design of its satellites as well as regards the services it provides over its fleet
LINES OF INNOVATION PURSUED IN 2017
SATELLITES
RedSat procesator and reoriented antenna in The Hispasat 36W-1 satellite.
Incorporation of photonic technology-based demonstrators on its Amazonas 5 and Hispasat 30W-6 satellites.
SERVICES
Video solutions
- Ultra High Definition available to end users.
- Promoting the SAT>IP system: hybrid technology satellite-Internet.
Mobility
- Incorporating connectivity improvements to RENFE’s high speed AVE train fleet.
- Mobility connectivity by satellite for cars in the Sat2Car project.
New applications
- New 5G communications standards: participant in the European Commission NRG5 project.
- Internet of Things (IoT): agreement with the manufacturer hiSky to offer affordable voice and data services together with low capacity IoT.
Satellite Triple Play
- Collaboration and development agreement with some of the biggest antenna manufacturers in the world to implement the hybrid Ka/Ku video and data solution
Network design
- Development of a computer tool to facilitate more accurate and automated network design.
PROMOTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL TALENT
HISPASAT is committed to promoting technological talent, something not possible without women. According to current Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport figures, only 25% of technical students are women. In 2017, HISPASAT took several measures to promote the presence of female talent in technological professions.
TechWomen and Allies Summit 2017
In 2017, HISPASAT sponsored the TechWomen and Allies Summit 2017 (MujeresTech y Aliados Summit 2017), which was held on 27 April to coincide with celebration of Girls in ICT Day. The conferences took place at the Príncipe Pío Theatre in Madrid, which were attended by Aurora Mourelle, an R&D and Systems Definition engineer at HISPASAT. Along with other technology sector representatives, the HISPASAT representative gave a talk on her career and professional experience in the hope that it would serve as an inspiration and incentive to those in attendance.
HISPASAT also sponsored one of the technology workshops, entitled the Internet of Things, an area in which the company is working to be able to offer solutions and applications via satellite.
I HISPASAT “Female Engineer” Scholarship
In keeping with its policy of promoting female technological talent, this year HISPASAT called its first “Female Engineer” Scholarship to aid some female student with a good academic record to study an aerospace related Master’s in Aeronautical Engineering or Telecommunications.
In addition to encouraging the presence of women in the technological field, this scholarship aims to contribute to the professional development of women in these studies, as well as to increase the number of women involved in the space sector. Laura González Llamazares, final year student of Aerospace engineering at the University of León won the scholarship. Moreover, she is to join HISPASAT for work experience on completing her studies.
She had been selected from the ten candidates competing for the scholarship, eight of whom were Aerospace students, while the other two were studying Telecommunications
