Louis Hotte - Inventor

Role at the Canadian Space Agency

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) (1993).
Bachelor's degree in technology, specializing in electricity, ÉTS (1979).

Senior engineer with over 30 years of experience in the aerospace industry; contributed to a number of space programs for the industry and the CSA.

Is currently the payload systems engineer for the Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) project.
As part of the Microwave Communications Group, helped design several monolithic microwave integrated circuits for a number of space applications where commercial availability was limited.
Helped develop the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI) device for the Herschel mission and a search and rescue transponder for the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) constellations.
Acted as a scientific authority in many microwave technology development studies.

Worked for Spar Aerospace and EMS Technologies (now MDA) for nearly 20 years.
Took part in the design of a number of circuits operating in various frequency bands ranging from VHF (Very High Frequency) to millimetre-wave. He designed the sub-systems, amplifiers, filters, multipliers, couplers, switches and other components.
Served as senior engineer on a number of programs, such as MSAT, ACES and HTV. He took part in reviews of designs and preparing worst-case scenarios and all documentation required for the production of these types of sub-systems.