About
Clément Goujon
Independent Systems Engineering & MBSE consultant · Founder, Goujon SystemsClément spent nine years at Thales Alenia Space, six of them in Turin, Italy, where he led the system architecture of ESA’s Argonaut lunar lander and shaped the company’s MBSE deployment strategy. Across close to ten years on Europe’s flagship space and defence programs, he has delivered projects, R&D studies and winning proposals over a wide spectrum: telecom satellites, lunar landers and transfer vehicles, crewed habitats, and communication & navigation systems, building on earlier experience developing RF products for the space segment.
Today he leads systems engineering on a major European naval program, teaches Space Systems Engineering & MBSE at Master’s level at Université Toulouse III, and mentors European space start-ups. INCOSE CSEP certified, working in English, French and Italian.
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What the last decade actually consisted of
- Led systems engineering on programs of every scale, from R&D and feasibility studies through to major multi-year contracts.
- System architecture lead, ESA Argonaut lunar lander, at Thales Alenia Space: the ESA programme for autonomous cargo delivery to the lunar surface.
- Phase 0/A/B feasibility studies across a wide span of space exploration: Moon Village (16 studies for the Italian Space Agency on a lunar-surface station), HEARTED (European Earth-reentry demonstration mission), LCNS (lunar telecom and navigation constellation), CLTV (cislunar logistics transfer vehicle), among many others.
- Team leadership: led functional-architect groups and peer reviews within the System, Functional & Avionics Architecture Committee of a large system integrator.
- Recognised specialist in MBSE: built Thales Alenia Space’s MBSE deployment strategy, co-authored the ESA System Factory for Space Systems papers (MBSE workshops 2021 and 2022), led R&D studies with ESA, and coached international engineering teams.
- Trainer & lecturer: teaches Space Systems Engineering & MBSE at Master’s level (Université Toulouse III) and has delivered company-wide training and best-practice sharing.
- Mentor to European space start-ups: technical and business coaching for early-stage ventures.
- Engineering Physics background (MSc, INSA Toulouse): applied physics and materials, electronics and signal processing, RF, instrumentation and test benches: the breadth needed to engage across a project’s full technical spectrum.
- Languages: English, French and Italian, including written deliverables and customer-facing reviews.
Evidence
What backs this up
Every claim on this page that can be checked against a public document is listed here with its source. Claims without a public source are not in the table.
| Claim | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Lead system architect of ESA’s Argonaut lunar lander | Role held at Thales Alenia Space, ESA’s prime contractor for the Argonaut Lunar Descent Element. The role is stated on the LinkedIn profile; the programme itself is documented by ESA. | LinkedIn profile · ESA, Argonaut programme page |
| Contributor to ESA’s System Factory for Space Systems (model-based engineering) | Co-author of “Specification and Architecture of a System Factory for Space Systems”, ESA MBSE2021 workshop, ESTEC, 29-30 September 2021, with GMV, OHB, Airbus Defence and Space, PRFC and ESA. | Paper (PDF), indico.esa.int |
| Extension of the System Factory work | Co-author of “Realisation, extension and utilisation of the system factory of space systems”, ESA MBSE2022 workshop, ESTEC, 22-24 November 2022, with GMV, OHB, Airbus Defence and Space and ESA. | Accepted papers, MBSE2022, indico.esa.int |
| Organiser of the Space System MBSE Hackathon at the ESA MBSE2022 workshop | Student teams of three to five people designing a space system concept in Capella, 1 to 15 November 2022, award ceremony on 22 November 2022 at ESTEC: ten teams, about 49 participants. Contact and technical coordination by Clément Goujon, Thales Alenia Space. | Hackathon page, MBSE2022, indico.esa.int · Challenge brief (PDF) |
| Co-author of a peer-reviewed paper on rotating, partial-gravity spacecraft | “Benefits of a rotating - Partial gravity - Spacecraft”, Acta Astronautica, volume 220, July 2024, pages 403 to 415, with J. van Loon, C. Lobascio, G. Boscheri, S. Voglino, E. Zeminiani, R. González-Cinca and R. Ewald. | DOI 10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.04.041 |
| Space systems architect in a national working group on the environmental footprint of space and lunar activities | Contributor to the ANRT exploratory note “L’empreinte environnementale des activités spatiales et lunaires”, October 2024, listed as space systems architect, Thales Alenia Space. | Note (PDF), anrt.asso.fr |
| INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) | Certification granted by INCOSE after examination and verified professional experience; the programme is documented by INCOSE. | INCOSE, certification programme |
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