The talks presented were:

• Eclipse, an Emerging, Standardize, Modular, Secure and Affordable Software Toolset in Support of Product Assurance, Quality Assurance and Project Management for the Entire European Space Sector
  This talk focused on the roll out and implementation of Eclipse both within ESA and industrial partners such as OHB. ECLIPSE provides an answer to the many faceted needs of the PA-QA and project management office in space projects, from planning to execution where sparse teams need to collaborate in a controlled way. Through its modularity and scalability ECLIPSE can be deployed as one integrated suite of tools or as stand alone modules. Simple, easy to use, with a low cost of ownership, operation and support.
• Domain-specific Mapping of Relational Databases to Semantic Web
  Presented the findings of our research into Semantic Web and in particular mapping semantic queries to a relational database (such as SQL) to enable connections to be made between various information blocks and thereby creating a knowledge field around the database.
• Nonconformance Tracking System (NCTS): Supporting ESA's Nonconformance Management Process
  Presented the status and deployment of Sapienza widely used NCTS application that allows ESA and Industry to track critical Product assurance information and thereby building knowledge about the identification and disposition of non-conformances of satellites components
• Knowledge Management in Support to the ESA End-to-End Technology R&D Process
  ESA presented their experience in this area through the use of the Sapienza ESTER (European Space Technology Requirements Document) application.

The conference was held at the European Space Agency's ESOC facility in Darmstadt, Germany and was attended by over 50 people.

Details on the conference including access to all presentations can be found via the Congrex website: http://www.congrex.nl/10C11/

For the ISECG, the initial delivery consists of a public website that raises the profile of the group and provides a stepping stone to future collaborative activities. This will involve the deployment, through Liferay, of a networked environments that will allow the 50+ to access a document library, wiki, shared calendars, news features and blogs.

The ISECG is a voluntary, non-binding international coordination mechanism through which individual agencies may exchange information regarding interests, objectives, and plans in space exploration with the goal of strengthening both individual exploration programs as well as the collective effort. The website will play a key role in that tasks by allowing the placement of key reference materials in a single place.

Website: http://www.globalspaceexploration.org/

The NCTS and RID software will further empower OHB-System AG project teams with the same tools that the European Space Agency (ESA) has used for many years successfully.

Michel Peter Gerhard, OHB Quality Management said: "For us the choice of Sapienza was easy, their software ticked all the boxes, it’s easy to use, powerful, competitively priced and follows the space industry ECSS standards".

Micheal Bearman, Sapienza Consulting Managing Director said: "We are honoured to start working with OHB-System AG, and look forward, in the near future to let them evaluate our new ECLIPSE integrated products suite, currently under development. The ECLIPSE web based software toolset (containing also NCTS and RID) will provide an answer to the many faceted needs of the PA-QA and project management office in space companies. In particular ECLIPSE will provide a document configuration and change management module, a risk management module, and action item module plus other add-ons, all rigorously based on the ECSS standards like NCTS and RID. I am particularly proud to say that this toolset will be appropriate and affordable by both SMEs and Primes in the space industry".

The NCTS (Non Conformance Tracking Software) is the tool of choice for the management of “non-conformances” lifecycle for all flagship projects within the European Space Agency (ESA). The NCTS is currently in use by the Galileo, all Earth Observation, and most Human Space Flight, as well as many Telecoms satellite and development projects led by ESA.

The RID (Review Item Discrepancy) system is web based software that enables end to end management and performance of reviews through the life of a space project. The RID is used by the ESA, primes as well SMEs in the space industry.

ECLIPSE - Ecss Compliant tooLset for Information and Projects Support of Enterprises in space.

About Sapienza Consulting Ltd.

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About OHB-System AG

OHB-System AG is a medium-sized systems provider belonging to the European OHB Technology AG group, which employs more than 1500 people in the areas of Space Systems + Security, Payloads + Science, Space International, Space Transportation + Aerospace Structures and Telematics + Satellite Operations.

OHB-System AG specializes in Space Systems + Security applications. OHB-System’s headquarters at the Bremen Technology Park are home to highly qualified scientists and engineers working on numerous prestigious national and international projects related to small satellites, manned space flight as well as security and reconnaissance technologies.

The reports consist of four major volumes of working reports representing the current understanding on the crucial topic of climate change and will form a key part in discussions and the decision process at COP15 - United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

The primary work requires the conversion and compilation of the documents into a series of searchable and navigable html encoded pages. The entire reports comprise around 3000 pages of documentation in the form of text, tables and images in the six official languages of the United Nations.

To accomplish this task Sapienza is using its custom document conversion application that was developed for a similar project with the European Patent Office. The application works by parsing html exports from PDF and PDF based documents following a series of rules and criteria. This export is combined with style sheets to define the look and feel of the web content.

A follow-up task requires creation of a fully indexed offline version of the materials on DVD for distribution at the Copenhagen Summit.

The website provides access to Disaster Activations and a large number of satellites images from previous natural or man-made disasters. The site is available in English, French, Spanish and Chinese.

Sapienza has been providing website design and development to ESA for many years and this is just one of its recent example.

The site can be viewed at: www.disasterscharter.org. For more information on web services please contact Frederique Berenbach.

The application is designed to provide a central repository whereby ESA can overview any quality control issues (i.e. non-conformancies) that arise during the build phase of space hardware.

"Nonconforming products can be of any nature, from the smallest screw to the final satellite", explains the ESA point of contact Raffaele Campagnuolo . "In fact, a nonconformance is always raised against an unfulfilled requirement, based on common space sector definitions derived from standards set by the European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS). Hundreds of nonconformances are usually generated across the contractual structure of a major project."

In addition to Human Spaceflight, the Galileo programme, and the CryoSat2 and BepiColombo missions utilise NCTS and adoption is anticipated to extent to some 15 projects by the end of the year as it rapidly becomes the industry standard.

Sapienza presented the GEOportal website and embed geo-viewer application that provides a dynamic view on the latest GEO events along with the ability to access in-depth layers of GIS based information.

Full details on the conference can be found at isrse-33.jrc.ec.europa.eu/welcome.html

If you would like to know more about this application please email: sales@sapienzaconsulting.com