The increasing market of the miniaturize payloads aims to provide services to a whole range of new applications covering needs in the closest future. ALTAIR is an ambitious project in the framework of the H2020 with the objective of developing a low price and high launch rate service devoted to nano- and micro satellites (150-250 Kg).Some of the major European space industries and agencies, most of them also part of the ALDEBARAN project attempting in the past a first approach for nano- micro payloads launch service, join efforts for the coming 3 years in a multidisciplinary consortium developing a complete technical and business study regarding the launch service as a whole, that shall prove at the end of the project the TRL maturity of some critical technologies and the economic viability of the business modelThat long road covered last March 2016 in Barcelona the first milestone with the General Assembly meeting in front of EU reviewers.Attendees were: Nicolas Bérend ONERA, Florence Béroud EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Alain de Leffe EC Project Reviewer, Tanya Scalia EC Project Reviewer, Rolf Janovsky OHB, Yves Durand TAS, Philippe Choy ONERA, Giulio Molinari ETHZ, Cédric Dupont BERTIN, Andrea Tromba BERTIN, Laurent Lequette BERTIN, Norbert Frischauf STP, Julie Gauvrit-Ledogar ONERA, Guerric de Crombrugghe STP, Roland Lagier Arianespace, Hubert Moser LuxSpace, Christoph Karl ETHZ, Michel Pons CNES, Francoise Perrel CNES, Laura Appolloni CNES, Bastien Haemmerli NAMMO, Onno Verberne NAMMO, Sébastien Defoort ONERA, Romano Diego PAS.And from GTD there was: Eduard Diez, Sara Rodriguez, Tigran Sargsyan and Marta Escudero.
