19th - 20th November 2007 at Kayser-Threde Main Office in Munich, Germany
In close cooperation with the teampartners

2nd KAP Customer Day: A Look-out into the Future

More than 80 attendees from all over Europe participated at the 2nd KAP Customer Day held on Nov 19th and 20th at Kayser-Threde Main Office, Munich. During two days the experimenters and the launcher authorities had ample opportunity to discuss the programmatic goals and the technical details towards the mission planned onboard Vega end 2009 and/or onboard SOYUZ/FREGAT in 2010. Moreover the participants gained the results of the Call for Interest published via ESA EMITS News during the “Experiments Session”. An overall overview of the system performances and interfaces was presented. The event has been combined with the 1st TET Customer Day. With TET, Kayser-Threde is having another opportunity for IOD demonstration using a free-flying platform.

The 2nd KAP Customer Day offered an ideal platform for discussing the technical possibilities about IOD services and solutions. Assembled within the modern atmosphere of Bavaria`s biggest space company, the experimenters gave an interesting overview across a broad bandwidth of potential candidates for the first KAP mission.During the experimenter’s sessions for KAP and TET-1, the potential customers of flight opportunities had a reasonable time to discuss their requests. The fruitful discussions during the first day finalized with a social event: A traditional Bavarian evening with typical Bavarian dishes and music. So there was not only a time for exchanging news and information but also for small-talk. Thus both days got off to a good start and a very successful conclusion.

For further impressions please view our photo gallery.

The presentations of the 2nd KAP Customer Day have been summarized as proceedings and are available for download here. On this site we will keep you posted for further news and the future steps towards the demonstration mission in 2009.