Distributed optical fibre sensors (DOFS) are highly suitable for monitoring temperature, vibration and strain using physical principles such as Raman, Rayleigh and Brillouin backscatter. They convert a standard telecom infrastructure to a sensor network providing thousands of virtual sensors per km using the intrinsic light/glass interaction during propagation.

GaN-based devices are becoming a key technology for millimeter-wave applications. Because of outstanding material properties, recent advances in GaN device designs provided a sharp increase in performances including high power, high efficiency, reliability, linearity, and compact size. These capabilities are ideally suited for numerous millimeter-wave power applications such as wireless networks and PAs MMIC for Q-band frequency and beyond.

The main objective of the intelligent COTS-based Power Stages (iCOTS) project consisted of the following aspects:

• Design and implementation of a BLDC power stage for robotic space application
• A modular design for the evaluation of power electronics in robotic space application based on COTS GaN-FETs
• Definition of the design process and the appropriate selection of COTS components
• Radiation test of selected COTS components

Both dark energy missions propose the use of the Teledyne Imaging Systems Hawaii-2RG detector and SIDECAR ASIC. These activities would lead to a European supply of NIR/SWIR detector technology for both these and future science missions. This programme aims at developing a prototype large area hybrid array comprising silicon read-out integrated circuit and HgCdTe photovoltaic sensing layer.

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The activity investigated a novel hybrid magnetic shielding system that uses both passive and active cancelation. The design and simulations used, along with the characterisation and measurements taken on the optimised system, are summarised in the executive summary report, and described in more detail in the Final Report. This activity was divided in two main work packages: study of optimisation and magnetic shield prototype.

The aim of this activity is to:

• Build and test an engineering model of innovative X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometer for the Moon
• Demonstrated instrument performance over temperature range during thermal-vac campaign
• Reduction of measurement fluctuation from 25.2% to 3.7 %
• Improvement of accuracy thanks to peak selection algorithm
• World record in term of energy resolution with this type of EDXRF instrument
• Free space weather measurement thanks to Time Domain MCA