This Pilot Study aimed at improving the information on the state of the Indonesian marine environment that is gained by combining satellite data, maps of particularly vulnerable coastal areas and model simulations.

Background and justification:

Funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) through its General Studies Programme (GSP) (www.esa.int/gsp), this activity aimed to provide more insights on the possible space applications of micro- and nanoencapsulation (MNE) techniques and technologies. NASA performed some early studies3,4 in the international space station (ISS) with aim to assess whether new drugs could be produced under a microgravity environment. However, the study of MNE in the space context remained primarily limited to these few experiments.

The NGMP architectural design is currently under way in TRP contract 22279. Early prototypes shall be manufactured by the end of 2010 in commercial Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology (eASIC, UMC, TSMC 90nm). The present activity starts with the functional validation of the early prototypes. With feedback from this validation and from other beta users, the NGMP design will be consolidated, and manufactured as an Engineering Model in the target space technology, the 65nm by STM, which is currently being developed under TRP and FP7 activities.

Global plans for exploratory missions aim at extending the distances travelled by humans well beyond low Earth orbit and establishing permanent bases on the surface of Moon and Mars [1]. This will inevitably lead to increasing mission duration, radiation intensity, gravity levels and degree of confinement and isolation to which the crews will be exposed. In this extended space mission context, the astronauts should have the means to collect medical/physiological data in order to understand if their physiological conditions are in nominal levels.

In this report, we describe the advisory study for both the Asteroid Impact Monitoring (AIM) as a stand-alone European mission and for AIM with its second component, the US Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission under study at NASA by the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Syer et al. published a paper titled “Leveraging Performance Counters and Execution Logs to Diagnose Memory-Related Performance Issues” in the International Conference on Software Maintenance in 2013. In that paper, the authors describe an automated approach that combines execution logs and performance counters (e.g. memory heap usage) in order to assist performance analysts in diagnosing memory-related performance issues (e.g. memory leaks) that appear in load tests.

In the first demonstrations, the detection of photons with graphene was based on the pn-junction generated by the graphene-metal contact. There the active detector area is a narrow line with length determined by the contact edge and as the absorption of photons incident to a single layer of graphene is 2.3 % at highest, the detector efficiency is rather modest. However, the detector has very high speed, demonstrated up to 40 GHz and predicted to reach over 500 GHz, possibly limited only by the contact resistance.

This purpose of the study was to develop a high frequency radar to sound the first tens of metres of asteroid regolith and to achieve 3D tomography with metric resolution in order to
- Determine its structure and layering
- Identify geomorphological elements (rocks, boulders, etc.) embedded in the sub surface
- Map the spatial variation its texture
- Derive an estimate of dielectric permittivity of the sub-surface material

Scope of the MImOSA2 (Monitoring Ionosphere Over South America to support high precision applications) study was to support high-precision GNSS based applications in South America, analysing, through an original method, GNSS data acquired by a dense network of 50 Hz receivers to assess possible improvements on positioning accuracy when ionospheric degradation is taken into account.