Biomass burning is a key Earth system process, a major element of the terrestrial carbon cycle and a globally highly significant source of certain atmospheric trace gases and (primarily fine mode) aerosols. Natural and anthropogenic biomass burning occurs on all continents except Antarctica, with an estimated average of 3.5 - 4.5 million km2 of vegetation burnt in global wildfires each year (though this does not include the very large numbers of "small" agricultural fires that are difficult to map using current coarse spatial resolution remote sensing datasets).

The activity will focus on two specific modes which are under review for general or legal purposes: safe mode and deorbitation mode.In order to maximize commonality and reuse across all future platforms, a generic safe mode appears an interesting option combining magnetic actuators and the propulsion system. It performs similarly on any orbit with any spacecraft, making the most of the advantages of both technologies.

Thousands of man-made objects are currently in orbit around the Earth. These range from active satellites to flecks of paint, via spent rocket stages and fragments of satellite debris. Due to the drag of the very thin high altitude atmosphere, these objects have slowly decaying orbits, and will eventually re-enter the Earth's thicker, lower atmosphere. Most will be destroyed on entry due to the aerothermal heating experienced at hypersonic velocities at altitudes between 40 and 80km. However, some objects reach the ground.

The use of helicon sources as thrusters for space propulsion has been envisaged as a robust, scalable, reliable and long-life device. The Helicon Plasma Thruster (HPT) is presented as a potentially durable, throttlable and high thrust-to-power ratio device, with intermediate specific impulse and competitive thrust efficiency.

The BOUNCED project has assessed the behaviour of elastic tethers within flexible link Active Debris Removal (ADR) systems. This has been achieved by solving a multidimensional set of linear equations, through the separation of dynamic modes; and the construction of analytic and numeric models of the resulting system. These models can be used to simulate the behaviour of both single and multi material tethers across the full lifetime of a tether mission, from pretension, through re-entry burn and free body motion post burn, to re-entry.

Saocom-CS payload is aimed at being mounted onboard a dedicated satellite that will flight in formation with Saocom-1B satellite., the L-band SAR satellite property of CONAE (Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales, Argentina).

This study proposal addresses the issue of compatibility between the CCSDS SMC and SOIS standards and the ECSS PUS standard. Each of these standards bring an added value and represent a useful reference for the definition and implementation of Monitoring and Control (MC) kernels on ground. However, they are unfortunately defined independently from each other and show significant overlaps (especially between SMC and PUS) and/or contradictions.

The research and sound design team consists of members from the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering and Plymouth University, School of Psychology. The main team members included one industrial designer specialized in sound design and research and two experimental and applied psychologists specialized in auditory perception and cognition in the field of sound design and application.

•Burn recession tests of ablators using oxy-acetylene flame and plasma-jet show that the ReWiG sensor is able to provide a distinguishable signal as the recession proceeds
•The use of a grid/foil combination can offer reliable temperature compensation enabling better definition of the recession signal