Sweety Pate
Nominations: 2021
Category: Science & Innovation
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
About Sweety: Ms. Pate is a Satellite Operations Systems Engineer working on the ground-breaking space missions at QinetiQ Space, Belgium. Her award-winning c... Read More
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ALTIUS (Atmospheric Limb Tracker for the Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere) is a microsatellite dedicated to the operational monitoring of stratospheric ozone profiles. My job involves working on space systems designs, requirement management, satellite hardware-software assembly in th... Read More
- ALTIUS Satellite
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QKDSat is a highly innovative project, the first of its kind, which will validate Quantum Key Distribution via satellite technologies. Read More
- Quantum Key Distribution Satellite
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PNEXT GS: European Ground Segment: Common Core ( EGS-CC) test setup & demonstration. Read More
- Proba Next Ground Station
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Space activities have increased impressively in the last decades. New actors and concepts are raising new challenges to ensure the security, safety, sustainability and stability of space operations. Initiatives on national and international level aim to tackle this issue through promotion of prev... Read More
- European Space Traffic Management (EUSTM)
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She is working at Qinetiq Space as a Satellite Operations System Engineer & involved in the European Space Agency space missions. She is leading the Women in the Aerospace (WIA) organization from Belgium.
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Ms. Pate is a Satellite Operations Systems Engineer working on the ground-breaking space missions at QinetiQ Space, Belgium.
Her award-winning career path in aerospace engineering began during her undergraduate studies, where she won awards from NASA and AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics) for designing a conceptual eco-friendly aircraft & spacecraft using a system engineering approach. She presented her innovative aircraft design concepts at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) in 2011. Ms. Pate is a recipient of the Young Scientist 2012 award, Young Outstanding Girls Award 2014 & many more, for her exceptional work & contribution to several international projects.
The recognition from NASA, AIAA, and innovative projects led to a year-long research position at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). She pursued her higher education at TUDelft (Netherlands) - one of the best aerospace universities in the world. She made a European amateur altitude record in 2015 at Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE) for designing, building & launching a sounding rocket. She was also involved in the Poland Mars Analog Mission (PMAS) 2017 as a backup analog astronaut and a Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM). She presented her work in the international conferences, namely Systems & Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications Conference (SECESA) and International Astronautical Congress (IAC)
During her master’s at TUDelft in Space Engineering, she continued her interest in systems engineering with a master thesis at Thales Alenia Space, Turin, Italy. In this project, she developed a low cost, efficient, and robust design process using the concurrent engineering approach within an open-source framework, where all the design disciplines can be integrated on a common platform. The multidisciplinary optimization of the re-entry vehicles like Raduga, Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), and Space Rider was successfully performed using this design process. As an aerospace engineer at Siemens System Engineering Research and Technology Development (RTD) group, she contributed to generative engineering to explore system architectures using an AI-based solver. She worked on use cases like process architectures for space missions (Apollo case), embedded systems for aircraft avionics, etc.
Ms. Pate is the national coordinator of Women in Aerospace (WIA), Belgium where she is expanding women’s leadership opportunities and increasing their visibility in the aerospace sector.
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ALTIUS (Atmospheric Limb Tracker for the Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere) is a microsatellite dedicated to the operational monitoring of stratospheric ozone profiles.
My job involves working on space systems designs, requirement management, satellite hardware-software assembly in the cleanroom facility, and satellite operations during all mission phases from the ESA ground station.
Quantum Key Distribution Satellite X Close
QKDSat is a highly innovative project, the first of its kind, which will validate Quantum Key Distribution via satellite technologies.
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PNEXT GS: European Ground Segment: Common Core ( EGS-CC) test setup & demonstration.
European Space Traffic Management (EUSTM) X Close
Space activities have increased impressively in the last decades. New actors and concepts are raising new challenges to ensure the security, safety, sustainability and stability of space operations. Initiatives on national and international level aim to tackle this issue through promotion of prevention, understanding the situation, active collision avoidance operations as well as active debris removal. To ensure autonomy and leadership in the field whilst reducing the dependability on U.S. SSA data, the EU started to work on an independent SSA/SST capability.
