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CDPS envisages to provide cloud capacity for data processing. It offers a cloud-agnostic, highly-scalable framework with resource elasticity, a common component for mission data, and marketplace service for third-party integration. CDPS aims to lower infrastructure costs while providing efficient, scalable, and secure processing capabilities for various Earth Observation systems.

RaCERS is a swarm of eight small satellites that will fly in close formation to exploit the enormous power of cooperating radars to boost the quantity and resolution of environmental observations from space. This will transform the science of Earth environmental monitoring and forecasting applied to such vital concerns as severe weather, natural hazards, snow/ice cover, soil moisture, vegetation canopy, surface winds, ocean circulation and much more.

Lessons learnt on the use of grease lubricants for applications in space mechanisms confirm their high chemical stability on long-term storage (LTS), due to intrinsic inertness of their fluorocarbon-based components which could be affected only via catalytic effect of metal compounds. What is observed even in widely used space-qualified greases is physical delamination leading to separation of the base oil and the solid filler. This delamination affects the lubricant?s viscosity and dielectric properties.

Future high frequency interferometric antennas (e.g. at Ka band) using large baselines require verification and testing with a very high accuracy, in particular in phase. While such interferometric testing and ground calibration techniques have been successfully performed in the past (i.e.

This project was primarily focused on exploring and enhancing the state-of-the-art in raw Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data compression by incorporating machine learning (ML) techniques. The overarching goal was to evaluate the potential improvements in compression efficacy through the integration of ML algorithms with the aim to on-board these algorithms in future.

Currently EO missions are operated in S/X-Band with payload data in X-Band. New EO missions will have payload data in K-Band and TTC still in S-Band. In the long term TTC will be moved to X-Band still keeping payload data in K-Band. Presently only US suppliers are able to provide antenna radomes operating over different frequency bands. It is intended to develop an European alternative to US suppliers in the domain of high/multi-frequency application like the one needed for future Earth Observation missions.