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This project set out to develop a range of advanced particle filters suitable for satellite propulsion applications.

ENSEM investigates potential use of energetic neutral atoms (ENA) for space weather monitoring. ENAs are produced everywhere in the solar system due to the interaction between space plasma and ambient particles (neutrals and other plasma populations). Due to the neutrality, ENAs fly straight, keeping the information of the source plasma. Thus, ENAs are expected to visualize the plasma in a remote sensing manner.

The NGMP architectural design is currently under way in TRP contract 22279. Early prototypes shall be manufactured by the end of 2010 in commercial Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology (eASIC, UMC, TSMC 90nm). The present activity starts with the functional validation of the early prototypes. With feedback from this validation and from other beta users, the NGMP design will be consolidated, and manufactured as an Engineering Model in the target space technology, the 65nm by STM, which is currently being developed under TRP and FP7 activities.

The Swedish PRISMA IRIDES experiment (Iterative Reduction of Inspection Distance with Embedded Safety) encompassed the transfer of the PRISMA MANGO spacecraft to the non-operational and un-prepared CNES PICARD spacecraft with close range rendezvous and inspection. The rendezvous and inspection phases were intended to be performed by on-ground calculated deltaV manoeuvers based on the available relative-navigation data.