Composite materials are widely used in space applications as they offer very high specific stiffness and strength properties. Their nature and manufacturing processes offer the possibility of embedding sensors for measuring fundamental quantities that can be used to monitor the structure during its entire life-cycle. Fiber optical sensors, for instance, are a promising candidate for this application. Optical fibers are compatible with common resins; they can be embedded into composites during conventional manufacturing processes such as hand layup, filament winding, tape placement, etc.

AOCS mode switching is implemented on many spacecraft to perform progressive transition from coarse pointing to fine pointing, or to perform slews, using different combinations of sensors, actuators and control algorithms. This standard architecture is at a cost of a certain complexity, with consequences on development and validation cost.The proposed activity consists in hybridizing different sensors to get a virtual unified sensor. Similarly, the actuators would be merged and controlled through a virtual actuator distributing the command to each of the physical actuators.).

Access to the subsurface of planetary bodies, is still a young research field with only limited experiences demonstrated by the space community. Underground access will enable scientific understanding of the planetary bodies and can potentially be essential for habitability. In this context, it is vital to provide communication links with above-ground stations or relay satellites. A wireless communication link appears to be the most attractive solution because of its higher flexibility compared to wired networks.

Payloads sensitive magnetic fields require low magnetic field emission levels from other payload instruments or platform equipment, or at least the characterization of them. Payloads can be sensitive to constant ("DC") or time-varying ("AC") magnetic fields itself, both periodic and aperiodic, or especially to the spatial field gradients, i.e.

The concluded TRP Advanced large FOV UV/VIS/NIR/SWIR spectrometers has identified high efficiency reflective concave gratings working over a large band as a key technology to enable the manufacturing of instruments that encompass the performances of OLCI in terms of optical quality, spatial resolution and compactness. The current activity aims at the design, manufacturing and testing of a reflective grating for a compact imaging spectrometer with very large FOV and working from the UV to the NIR spectrum .