Space industry takes off with EtherCAT

11/2022 | The euphoria in the industry was palpable when more than 1100 specialists in space technology gathered in Las Vegas at the end of October for the ASCEND conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA):

Spaceflight is in the midst of a transformation from government-funded research and national prestige projects into a commercially successful field of business. Both well-established and startup companies in the “New Space” movement continue to gain ground accordingly. And with NASA's new research and exploration goals, industry momentum is accelerating.
In the thick of technological developments for space is EtherCAT. The ETG’s Executive Director Martin Rostan, an aerospace engineer by education, presented a new paper at the conference titled "Advancing Space Robotics with the EtherCAT Communication Standard". This paper was developed together with Dr. Gerhard Grunwald from the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics and Chris Thayer, the CEO of Motiv Space Systems.
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