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Title: Space Sustainability Solutions
Speaker: Kuang-Han Ke, Gran Systems LLC
Abstract: The space industry is sending more critical space assets to space in recent years, and is looking for more sustainable way to operate in space. As there are more issues, we are introducing in this session the pioneers working on the space sustainability Solutions: from system integration, technology developer, and ecosystem & community point of views.
Recent implementation of the US FCC and European regulatory requirement for satellites preparing for launch to prove the zero debris capability and practice. Larger satellites have been able to prove the capabilities with existing active de-orbit capabilities with the propulsion systems on-board. Satellite will need to prepare extra fuel mass devoted to such an operation, and hence potentially reduce the satellite life time with reduced fuel available. Smaller satellites might not have enough space for propulsion system on board and have traditionally not able to do collision avoidance maneuver and were not able to de-orbit easily when flying at sufficient orbit and altitude. Passive de-orbit systems are recent technological development to be able to address this issue.
We will look at system integration solutions, methodology, mindset, economic incentives, legal transformation, policy in this event.
Bio: Kuang-Han Ke is Chairman of Gran Systems. He has experience in the industry, government, research institute, academia, and global industry associations. He has founded 6 companies, mentored more than 17 companies, and has served on the board of directors for 8 companies. In the semiconductor industry, he has over 30 years of experience encompassing a mix of industry and teaching. In New Space, he launches cubesats and experiments in space and his company is the International Space Station Gateway Company in Taiwan. His cubesat system integration experience includes both launching cubesat from the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and also through the International Space Station. His team is developing a full set of cubesat lab with end-to-end space environment testing equipment, and currently contracted for a lunar lander payload program to go on top of a commercially available lunar lander such as Intuitive Machines in Texas. He is also the Founder & Chairman of Gran Systems where they engage in system integration design, think-tanks, and manufacturing in new space, and semiconductor industries. Gran Systems products have recently been included in the 2023 NASA Small Satellite State-of-the-Art Report. The resulting R&D from the cubesat mission became Gran Systems' hundreds of cubesat subsystem production lines. He started his career with semiconductor equipment industry, where his contribution in system architecting a successful semiconductor equipment, making US$3.5 Billion revenue for the company in its 10 year product life cycle. During his past tenure, he was part of the US Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and then the Taiwan National Quality Award corporate members. He was senior manager for the semiconductor equipment industry and the precision machinery industry in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and also served as the expert supervisory committee member of the Taiwan "Productivity 4.0" National Initiative, Taiwan's version of the Industry 4.0 national initiatives for advanced manufacturing. His other contribution includes the subject matter expert speaker and mentor on the subject of Asia Pacific Space Development, in the Asia Pacific Space Generation Online Workshop, organized by the Space Generation Advisory Council, in preparation for a report for the United Nations Programme.
Kuang-Han holds an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. He taught 9 years at the School of Electrical Engineering and Communications at Yuan-Ze University.
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