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Format: 2023
Format: 2023
Format: 2023

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The interest of having in the near future an available Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) service supporting future missions to and at the Moon is currently supported by both institutional and commercial initiatives. On the commercial side, multiple companies are developing business solutions targeting the Moon and several major European companies are proposing to team up to build a communications network on the Moon compatible to terrestrial standards. In parallel, NASA has recently announced its plans to a ?Return to the moon?

Italy

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T606-701ES

Sapienza University of Rome

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GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receiver (such as GPS or Galileo receivers) are vulnerable to RF interference, intentional and un-intentional. Ground GNSS receiver have evolved significantly in the last 10 years to be resilience to such problems. GNSS spaceborne receivers are currently a mission critical element in multiple missions, mainly in LEO orbit, but soon also for GTO and GEO. At the same time the basic architecture adopted does not include (or consider only partially) robustness against RF effects.
 

Austria

TDE

T106-602ES

JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT

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FMCW radar technology in the automotive industry radar market covers 24 GHz and 77 GHz bands with modulated bandwidths of up to 4 GHz, allowing simultaneously ultra-precise determination of target range and its relative velocity. Fine angular resolution with 0.1 deg steps at distance of 300 m and beam-steering capability has been recently demonstrated. FMCW systems have also proved their efficiency for detection of fast-moving objects with small cross-section such as drones.

Finland

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T306-702EF

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND LTD

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In December 2019, the 3GPP standardization group approved a dedicated work-item for the implementation of a new set of 5G New Radio (NR) specifications allowing the integration with mobile broadband satellite networks. This is the first time ever that the space industry has this challenging opportunity of a full integration with terrestrial cellular systems, and to benefit from very large economies of scale.

Italy

TDE

T506-703ES

UNIV BOLOGNA ALMA MATER STUDIORUM

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During its science phase EnVision will use ESTRACK antennas located at the three ESA deep space sites in New Norcia (Western Australia), Cebreros (Spain) and Malarg?e (Argentina), and optionally the DSN antennas located at the NASA sites of Canberra (Australia), Robledo (Spain) and Goldstone (United States of America). In order to increase the flexibility in the selection of the ground stations, or alternatively to increase the data volume, offline arraying between distant antennas is proposed during overlapping visibility slots.

Italy

TDE

T212-063NA

ARPSOFT S.R.L.

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Reduction of EMI emission is usually considered a secondary optimization criterion in the design of DC-to-DC power converters for space applications and their filters, where power efficiency, mass and volume are driving design criteria. Several basic methods and techniques exist to reduce EMI, e.g. Filtering and shielding. Typical designs use these basic reduction techniques to a limited extent to meet generic requirement limits. The achievable improvement in EMI reduction needs to be however traded-off against increases in mass, size and power loss.
 

Spain

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T703-605EP

EMBEDDED INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS SL

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This activity aims at developing a generic solution, adaptable to the various (but limited in number) types of interface rings, to insulate the exposed surface once the spacecraft has been separated from the launcher. It could consist in a series of MLI flaps with a passive mechanism keeping it away from the Launch vehicle Adapter in quot;open positionquot;. The flap is automatically deployed in quot;closed positionquot; to protect the interface ring from the external environment (cold Space, Sun flux, planet flux).

Austria

TDE

T721-S16MT

RUAG SPACE GMBH

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In order to perform the MC configuration of a ground station for supporting a spacecraft, a number of software systems and specialized devices (telemetry and telecommand processors, signal encoders and decoders, switches, amplifiers, frequency converters) must be configured, ensuring data communications between the ground and the spacecraft.

Germany

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T709-601GS

CS COMMUNICATION & SYSTEMS GERMANY

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While development activities of large arrays are underway, these are aimed primarily at GEO telecommunication satellites.
Targets for current array developments aimed at GEO communications vary from 120 - 160 W/kg and up to 40 kw/m3.
Although these concepts can be increased in scale somewhat, the power output necessary for future exploration missions is beyond their reach.
 
Consequently, a new array concept is required, which can offer the necessary power output for such missions.

Netherlands

TDE

T303-601EP

AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE NETHERLANDS B.V.

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The CCSDS (Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems) Bundle Protocol (BP) is one component to realise next-generation Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) / store-and-forward capabilities in space networks. It is part of the protocol stack foreseen for next generation exploration missions (e.g. Gateway). The SIS(Space Internetworking Systems-Delay)-DTN Bundle Security Book, is currently defined within CCSDS. The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) is also working on dedicated DTN security publications.

Spain

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T312-701GD

RDI Network

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