Introduction

LuxSatConsult is a Luxembourg based freelance consulting service provided by Dr. Frazin Arzpayma delivering an independent Business, Technology and Management assessment and strategic decision-making assistance to public institutions, and private space industries including SMEs and NewSpace ventures.

Farzin Arzpayna thrives in leveraging the knowledge of his client resources by training and mentoring them to achieve their projects outcomes faster and more effectively.

Farzin Arzpayma expertise services and capabilities portfolio covers the complete life cycle of a satellites and ground segment projects. He provides a customer friendly function to enable their strategies, predevelopment, business development and acquisition and programmatic implementation of their space missions’ and specific satellite payload and platform subsystems procurement and subcontracts monitoring.

Consulting Services

Small Satellite Missions

Values

• Affordability: Through a lean management and favourable consulting service rate
• Business Expertise: Professional and international experience based on state-of- the art knowledge of the products and market in space communications, remote sensing and information missions and payloads equipment
• Innovation: Advanced technical & commercial solutions to customers including:
  • Feasibility studies, rethinking new business model and marketing assessment for new space missions.
  • Technical and management processes at each step of the predevelopment, procurement and construction phases of small satellite missions and subsystems

PROFILE

Dr. Farzin Arzpayma is a freelance senior consultant with a broad international and industrial experience in space systems and digital radio-communication technologies upstream and midstream market sectors. The core areas of his consulting expertise and services are in:

• Small satellites mission feasibilities in NewSpace era
• Communications and Remote Sensing satellite payloads technologies
• Satellite TT&C and Payload data downlink subsystems and operation
• Spacecraft subsystems procurement and supply change management
• Digital radio communications and data protocols

Dr. Farzin Arzpayma has worked through his career with a wide range of international satellite industry players: operator, prime contractors and suppliers. and has been involved in assessing the customer application missions, business intelligence, requirements, and has resolved the plethora of issues arising during the predevelopment, design and implementation of large and small GEO and LEO spacecrafts missions, communication payloads, TT&C subsystems, remote sensing payload data transmission and RF instrument electronics contracts.

Dr. Farzin Arzpayma recent focus in Luxembourg has been in business, and technology assessment of private space and wireless start-ups and industry customers. From 2008 -2018 he held a senior position with OHB LuxSpace board as procurement manager and later as business development manager in SmallGEO, EDRS-C and Microsatellite programs and proposals.

From 1996 -2007 Dr. Farzin Arzpayma had held multiple senior systems and consulting positions in multiple satellite TTC transponders, small space projects, as well as co-founding an in-orbit satellite servicing entrepreneurial endeavour in Canada and France. From 1982-1996 he had held a senior payload system engineer specialized in communications satellites and TT&C subsystems control and monitoring working at Thales Alenia Space and AirBus France.

He initiated a research work and designed a high speed 32 QAM Modem for digital radio link network while working with SAT (SAGEM) in France. From 1978 -1981.

EDUCATION

• Doctor-Engineer (PhD) in Signal Processing and Automatic, University of Paris XI - Supelec, France 1981
• MSc Electronics - King’s College University of London, GB, 1978
• BSc Electrical Engineering-University of Science & Technology, Iran, 1974

MEMBERSHIP

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