Louis Piché, Director of Engineering

Mr. Louis Piché joined Routes AstroEngineering, in 2000, as Director of Engineering.  Louis has 25 years of hardware, software and system design experience in aerospace, military and commercial systems.  He was Technical Manager for Insect Habitat facility, completed and to be flown on ISS.  Currently, Louis is Technical Manager on the Data Storage Unit (DSU) to be flown on the CASSIOPE-ePOP satellite.

While at Piché and Associates, and CAL Corporation (now EMS Technologies Canada), Louis was the technical lead responsible for the electrical design, build, test and implementation of the:

  • Flight hardware for the OSIRIS imager launched on the Swedish Odin spacecraft in 2001.
  • Electrical systems (power, communication, thermal control, data acquisition) for the Space Station Mobile Servicing Center (MSC).
  • Monitor and Control Subsystems of the electrical power demonstration system for the classified Space Based Radar project for DND.

Louis was the consulting authority at CAL for technical issues on Space Telescience, Advanced Power Management Systems (using AI techniques), Space-Based Radar, Space Station data management (including FDDI and MIL-STD-1553B standards and protocols), digital signal processing (using TMS-based hardware), space and military software development and space-based instrumentation systems. He received the CAL Corporation Outstanding Achievement Award (1991), for technical proficiency in addition to managerial excellence and integrity.

Earlier in his career, Louis was responsible for the development of a real-time multicomputer network dedicated to open heart surgery parameter monitoring, a process control data acquisition system and a real-time process control system. His military design experience includes a classified automated test and analysis system for the Canadian Armed Forces, a Threat Simulator System, a fault-tolerant audio/intercom system and aircraft cockpit display electronics. At Gandalf, Louis supervised the development teams for 4 different modem families, which led to two patent applications for proprietary digital and analog synchronization circuits.

Louis holds a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada.