The activity shall review current estimation techniques employed in space industry and make a analysis in the face of improvement, new demands and functionalities related to space applications in the view of high accuracy control demands ranging from science missions, exploration and vision based control to space transportation guidance navigation and control applications. The study shall execute the robust and high performance estimation and filtering techniques for accurate state reconstruction for hybrid integrated navigation purposes including vision based hybridisation.

Address the open points raised in COrDeT2: i) open points in final report, ii) integrate OBCP building block interface specification from parallel GSTP5 element 2 activities, iii) define unique meta-model of component model and add semantic description, iv) incorporate feedback from OBSW reference architecture consolidation activities (GSTP5 element 2 activities).Harmonize the OBSW reference architecture specification with the outcomes from IMA-SP activity by implementing the recommendations from SISTORA activity.

While most Earth Observation missions based on passive optical methods are intended to measure the light “reflected” by the surface, FLEX uses a completely innovative approach based on the measurement of the light “emitted” as fluorescence by terrestrial vegetation. Such fluorescence emission by vegetation has never been measured from space, which makes FLEX a true Explorer mission providing a type of information never available before.

In recent years the concern about the future exploitation of space has been growing due to the risk that uncontrolled space debris poses to the space environment and therefore to the survivability of operational spacecraft. Two main regions of concern exist, GEO, where most of the commercial telecommunications satellites orbit, and LEO, where many scientific missions observing the Earth fly. Of special concern is the sun synchronous orbit, a natural resource of special interest for Earth sciences.

Arquimea suggests a new HDRA (REACT) base on a novel SMA material (SMARQ) with increased temperature performance capabilities able to overcome the current temperature limitations of similar devices. REACT can work in the range of temperatures of -60ºC to 120ºC with a minimum preload of 100N. Other important advantages of the proposed technology are its lightweight, high force to weight ratio and low volume, which makes it especially attractive in space applications.

Chlorophyll fluorescence (CF) is a natural spectral emission resulting from the interaction of plant chlorophyll pigment with visible light (typically 400‐700 nm). In photosynthesizing tissues, red and far‐red light can be emitted from any chlorophyll‐containing plant tissues which are exposed to light: primarily foliage, but also green stems, green exposed roots, floral structures, many fruits, and green seeds.

ESPSS is concerned with setting up a common European platform for propulsion system simulation. Such a common platform is identified as crucial in order to strengthen the European company’s competence in propulsion system modelling. ESPSS is proposed as a framework for continuous cooperation on space propulsion systems between European industries working on such kind of systems.

The model based software engineering consists in expressing the software functional requirements with models. In order to get the requirements right as early as possible, system-software co-engineering is necessary, in this case avionics-software co-engineering, where the software functional models are placed consistently into an avionics model.The avionics model represents the physical architecture on which the software will run (deployment view).

Arquimea suggests a new Pin Puller base on a novel SMA material (SMARQ) with increased temperature performance capabilities able to overcome the current temperature limitations of similar devices. The European Pin Puller can work in the range of temperatures of -50ºC to 125ºC with a minimum pull force of 100N. Other important advantages of the proposed technology are its lightweight, high force to weight ratio and low volume, which makes it especially attractive in space applications.

X BAND DOWNLINK ANTENNA EQM S/N: 001 has been designed, manufactured and tested at EQM levels.
From the initial to the final RF electrical tests, the performances do not suffer any degradation ( neither shock test nor random test).
No damage has been detected during the overall vibration test sequence:
Vibration test:
- On axes X and Y no significant frequency shifting (higher than 10%) and response
amplitude variation (higher than 50%) are measured between each sine survey.