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Format: 2023
Format: 2023
Format: 2023

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Achievements and status: 
• Flight heritage: Achieved TRL-8 on the CURIUM-1 mission for the UHF-TX functionality. 
• Commercialization: Outsourced the assembly process. Already delivered an EM and signed multiple contracts for EM & FM 
deliveries in 2025, among which is the HELEO mission, where LSF is part of a larger consortium. University teams constitute the 
majority of our client base.
• Community utilization: A modified version of the board is utilized by a university team on their CubeSat project.

Greece

GSTP

GT27-037ES

Libre Space Foundation

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New space communications infrastructure at Faroe Island could be of interest for ESA Programmes, in the domain of Earth Observation, Lunar exploration, Space Transportation and Space Safety.
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The activity aims at creating new infrastructure at the Faroe Islands, to respond to emerging requirements in the domains of Space communications, Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) for the Arctic region, in the frame of the Space Situational Awareness Programme (SSA) and Artic surveillance
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The activity encompasses the following tasks:

Faroe Islands

TDE

T712-S66GS

P/F Telefonverkid (Foeroya Tele)

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The project successfully developed and demonstrated a multi-source data correlator (MSDC), advancing it from TRL 3 to TRL 7. The MSDC processes data from optical, laser and radar sources to perform high accuracy orbit determination. The MSDC was validated in an operational environment, tracking real targets for which high accuracy ephemeris were available, facilitating system validation and proving its effectiveness in accurate orbit determination.

Portugal

GSTP

G617-241TAxb

Neuraspace

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Spain

GSTP

GT27-139GF

GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE, SA

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Background and justification:

Belgium

GSTP

G617-241TAgn

RHEA Group Technologies NV

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The spectral filter is a critical element to reject unwanted background and straylight onto the receive detector during day and night operation. The activity consists in elaborating its optimized design (interference filters vs. fiber Bragg gratings vs. volume Bragg gratings) after trade-offs taking into account the overall design of the optical antenna (e.g. numerical aperture of the beam, tunability vs. spectral width, etc.).

Germany

TDE

T712-503GS

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft

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A generic EGSE Controller Software solution, used for several EGSE projects, requires adaptation at different levels (architecture, sub-system) in order to be implemented with the EGS-Common Core.

Denmark

GSTP

G617-205SW

ROVSING A/S

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Currently two Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are fully operational. These two systems are the US GPS and the Russian GLONASS. However, the number of available GNSS in 2020 will grow up to four operational systems and the number of available GNSS satellites will be over 120 for potential users. Each GNSS will have at least three civil frequencies and more than two types of new GNSS signals. The complexity for processing of GNSS signals will increase substantially and the aspect of Interoperability will gain on importance for all GNSS users.

Portugal

TDE

T710-504GN

DEIMOS ENGENHARIA S.A.

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The GSP study "New Microwave Sampling Concepts for TTC architecture" has shown that the electro-photonic sampling technology is capable of sampling signals up to Ka band. Whereas standard sampling technologies are still limited up to 20 ghz. The same electro-photonic technology can be used in the ground stations receivers (using microwave subsampling) or in the transmitter (signal oversampling). The electro-photonic device is associated with high performance ADC , DAC and FPGA and will be integrated in a transmitter and receiver front end.

Spain

TDE

T712-601GS

DAS PHOTONICS SL

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Belgium

GSTP

GT17-419GD

SPACEBEL SA.

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