1. IPMC
An International Collaboration in
Presented by Lionel Baize Technical Workforce Development
CNES - Toulouse Space Centre Deputy Directorate 22 February 2012
Technical Outreach & Innovation Department

2. The European
Space Triangle
The European Union
The European Space The Countries &
Agency the national agencies:
CNES France, DLR Germany,
ASI Italy, UK Space Agency,…

3. An ambitious
French Space policy
A firmly European policy:
To provide end-to-end space expertise.
To be a driving force in constructing Europe in Space
implemented thanks to international cooperation.
An efficient tool: CNES
CNES is the French Space agency and
is also a technical centre.

4. Orbital projects
Managed by Toulouse Space Centre
Roughly 50 projects
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Satellites or instruments embarked by other agencies.
Omnipresent cooperation in (~20 countries).
3 ways
of intervention:
The elements of the space system are developed by Industry on the basis of an
overall architecture and of specifications developed by CNES.
Work in integrated teams CNES/scientific laboratories.
Collaboration with agencies or laboratories for scientific missions
(ESA, NASA, JAXA,…).
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5. 2012 plans
Launches of:
 Saral / Altika-Doris-Argos (India),
 IASI#2, Argos#3 and Sarsat#3 on Metop-B (Eumetsat),
 SWARM (ESA),
 Galileo IOV 3 and 4 (ESA - DLR),
 ATV#3 (ESA, NASA, Roskosmos, DLR),
 MTB-Bion on Photon (Russia),
 Robusta (Montpellier University)
launched on 13 February 2012,
first VEGA launch (ESA, ASI),
 BAUMANETS-2 (Montpellier University and Russian
Bauman Moscow State Technical University).
Operations of:
 ATV#3 (ESA, NASA, Roskosmos, DLR),
 Galileo IOV 3 and 4 (ESA - DLR),
 Chemcam (NASA).
ChArMex / TRAQA and BAMED / HyMeX balloons campaign
(Météo-France & French Labs).

6. Interest of IPMC for CNES
■ Most of our projects are run in an international
context,
■ The International Program/Project Committee
(IPMC) brings together agencies, companies and
others interested in project management and
workforce development training,
■ We believe that the sharing of knowledge and of
practices strengthens the links between the space
community members and ...

7. IPMC: a great tool for internal improvement
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: the Knowledge Spiral as described by Nonaka & Takeuchi.

8. Suggestions for the future
■ To continue the establishment and the
reinforcement of very open relationships
between the different organizations,
■ To generalize the exchanges of students (for the
time being CNES supports one student to NASA
Academy),
■ On given projects in cooperation, to get the
viewpoints of the different players on the same
“adventure” and mutually enrich our practices.

9. lionel.baize@cnes.fr
http://www.cnes.fr/