The Low-Cost Solar Panel Assembly GSTP Project has the high-level objective of increasing the European TRL level for innovative, high power to volume ratio, versatile, low-cost solar arrays, in this way contributing to cover the gap in this area with US manufacturers and to improve Europe global competitiveness. This new generation of solar power systems are also key to electrical-propelled missions in the whole range of orbits of interest

As new software tools are developed for Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) applications, parallel improvements are needed for Concurrent Engineering teams, since this can be one of the first steps for a model-based approach to build-up on throughout the continuation of the project. One of the main constraints during Concurrent Design (CD) studies is the capability of generating and evaluating a large amount of possible mission architectures without the implication of additional experts or time allocation.

The main objective of the project was to select the right IMU for our Future GNSS Receiver Unit (GRU). Two IMU were selected from their datasheet : µ-UMI-IC-HP from Litef and STIM318 from Sensonor. These 2 IMU were submitted to hard characterization tests applicable to our Launchers (and
HAPS) application.

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Solar panel suppliers are developing a partially automated solar generator assembly process. A GSTP G617-241TA de-risk Activity: "Identification and baseline validation of solar cell test and measurement techniques for highly automated space solar generator manufacturing" was in the process to be completed, where measurement techniques have been identified and initially verified to be suitable to control the quality of the solar generator during automatic manufacturing.

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