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The knowledge bank of ESA’s R&D programmes

Format: 2023
Format: 2023
Format: 2023

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Within the Space Safety programme (S2P), under preparation for the Council at Ministerial Level (Space19+), Hera is the cornerstone mission of the planetary defence and it builds on extensive work done by the Agency and European industry between 2011 and 2019. In particular, the Hera mission in currently in Phase B1 which will be concluded by a System Requirements Review in Summer 2019 after which a prompt start of Phase B2 is planned to reach PDR by end of 2020.
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Sweden

GSTP

GT17-176SP

SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS

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Background and justification: Machine-to-Machine (M2M) automation is a powerful concept that will be used for large missions, many scientific and technological applications, as well as commercial activities on Earth.

Greece

GSTP

G617-241TAcs

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

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The ISS Exploration Capabilities Study (IECS) is a joint study undertaken by ESA in cooperation with the 4 other ISS partners: NASA, JAXA, Rosscosmos, and CSA. In the IECS study, the human exploration programme for the period 2021-2030 is addressed. In this study it is proposed that in the first half of the 2020(s), a joint programme could start by building a Cis-Lunar Transport Habitat (CTH) vehicle. The CTH will be placed on a NRO orbit around the Moon. Safety of underlying trajectories is critical for rendezvous to human-tended infrastructure.

Spain

TDE

T305-502EC

GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE, SA

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The purpose of the activity is to define a payload system that complements the HERA planetary defence demonstration mission to a binary asteroid compatible with a launch in 2023. This mission concept builds on extensive work done by the Agency and European industry and academia, in particular, to enable the use of cubesats in deep space missions (ref. ESA GSP SysNova AO#3 in 2014).

Sweden

GSTP

GT17-125SP

SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS

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RACE has been conceived by ESA as a low-cost IOD mission in low Earth orbit to demonstrate the capability of nano-satellite systems (following the CubeSat form factor) to perform close proximity operations relative to cooperative targets (rendezvous and docking) and optionally uncooperative targets (pose estimation and close fly around) using the following critical miniaturised technologies currently under development in Europe:
 

    Poland

    GSTP

    G637-009SY

    GMV INNOVATING SOLUTIONS SP. Z O.O.

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    In 2009, the Nanosat study recommended a high degree of integration between data handling, AOCS and power distribution. Meanwhile, industry has come with innovate solutions where AOCS sensors are miniaturised and can be progressively introduced fully or partially in the central processor, typically coarse gyros, GNSS receivers or the processing part of the Star Trackers, leaving only optical heads or GNSS antennas to be accommodated as external units.

    Spain

    TDE

    T705-504EC

    SENER AEROESPACIAL, S.A.

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    The challenge of the Miniaturized transceiver design is, to design a new generation of TT&C
    transceivers that can be efficiently configured and adapted to meet the requirements of a
    diversity of both small and classical Hi-Rel missions. The new concept developed breadboard
    validates the overall concept as well as the key new elements introduced. This activity drove a
    design oriented to the new small platforms that will require this kind of products.

    Spain

    GSTP

    G627-029ET

    THALES ALENIA SPACE ESPANA

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    The outcome of the activity was a conceptual design that has been assessed feasible and can be implemented in a follow-up activity.

    Austria

    GSTP

    G617-241TAbj

    TTTECH COMPUTERTECHNIK AG

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    In the short term, the results of this study shall ease the definition of the new generation of on-board architecture and their verification using representative scenarios. In addition, the results of this study should be taken into account in the definition of a new version of the SpaceWire switches and possibly to provide inputs to the next version of the SpaceWire standard.

    France

    TDE

    T702-401SW

    THALES ALENIA SPACE FRANCE

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    The goal will be achieved by implementing Time Sensitive networking (TSN) standards on Gigabit Ethernet that will fulfil real time on-board data bus needs. The innovation conent of GETDEN lies in the spin-in of a non-space technology.

    Spain

    TDE

    B02017093

    GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE, SA

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