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Format: 2023
Format: 2023
Format: 2023

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Space mission integration and testing activities between space and ground segments are today decoupled, based on different simulation facilities in different environments. Indeed, although most elements and building blocks are separately available, currently no coherent environment exists to perform an initial setup at space mission level. A number of technology and organisational solutions need to be achieved (e.g.

Germany

TDE

T708-611G

VISIONSPACE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH

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While test case definition is test dependent and test performance is human error prone and effort intensive, automated testing proved to be still not reaching a level of abstraction and exhaustiveness to enable significant return on investment.The application of Data Analytics technologies like Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence or Data Mining to both simulation and test data processing shall provide a level of abstraction and consistency to improve both test automation production and exhaustiveness.

Germany

TDE

T709-707SW

Etamax Space GmbH

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Previous activities (T709-503OS) have looked into the usage of Model based diagnostics at sub-system level (like Thermal) joined with AI for the identification of issues. This work expands to cover the complete system at system level. It uses results from ongoing Digital Twin activities (T708-505SW), but as well standard simulation modelling technology. One key issue to be tackled is the evaluation of the output to reliable detect anomalies.

Poland

TDE

T708-703GD

GMV INNOVATING SOLUTIONS SP. Z O.O.

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Background and context: The aim of this activity is to breadboard the Straylight LIDAR instrument concept and to verify its performance experimentally. This activity aims to raise the TRL to 4 and follows the TDE activity (T216-104MM Verification of straylight rejection of optical science payloads using a pulsed laser source). The aim of this smooth follow-on is to verify the concept experimentally using an available flight spare space telescope baffle as a representative test object.Description of the concept: The technique is called ?straylight LIDAR?

Switzerland

TDE

T208-022MM

CSEM SA. Centre Suisse dElectronique et de Microtechnique SA

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Compared to current practices, where training of AIT procedures typically uses physical models of the actual hardware, manufactured at discrete moments in the spacecraft development life-cycle, the virtual reality AIT trainer, called ICARUS, shall offer substantial benefits by enabling realistic and immersive training scenarios. This shall provide more flexibility, as there is no need to have any physical models made available for the sole purpose of training.

Netherlands

GSTP

GT17-516SW

ATG EUROPE B.V.

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In today?s increasingly connected and contested cyber space, effective and thorough security testing of software and systems is mandatory to achieve any level of security assurance and trustworthiness of systems for its stakeholders. In fact many organizations and owners of modern complex systems today adopt a paradigm of ensuring system resilience rather than prevention and protection, assuming that attacks and some level of compromise are inevitable and focusing on how to minimize associated disruption.
 

Luxembourg

GSTP

GT1Y-310GD

PROXIMUS LUXEMBOURG S.A.

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The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is recognised as a cornerstone technology to enable the digitalisation of the engineering workflow and to foster model-based systems engineering (MBSE), still requiring tailoring for the space domain.
An ESA SysML Toolbox has been created, consisting of a profile and prototype implementations in COTS tools to model space systems in compliance with SysML. The Toolbox has been applied successfully in the EUCLID and PLATO missions, however indicating the need for even more standardization and closer integration to the ECSS standards.

Netherlands

TDE

T708-708SY

RHEA SYSTEM B.V.

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The ambitious goal to fully apply Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) in future projects and to establish the methodology across ESA missions, engineering domains, customer-supplier boundaries and lifecycle phases demands that the entire lifecycle is addressed. This includes - among others - procurement, operations and the transition of engineering model data from Phase 0/A through to Phase E. For instance, the utilisation of digital system engineering data or models upon handover to the operator is limited and based on documents or static database artefacts.

Spain

TDE

T709-708SY

GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE, SA

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The constantly raising worldwide interest in the execution of rendezvous, proximity and capture operations for on-orbit services such as repair, refuelling, and tugging has highlighted the lack of clear and widely accepted technical requirements and their associated verification and validation methods for ensuring that rendezvous and proximity operations are conducted in a safe manner.Previous activities (e.g.

France

TDE

T808-701SY

THALES ALENIA SPACE FRANCE

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Optimisation tools have a strong heritage within space mission design, allowing higher performance and/or enabling missions that would otherwise not be possible. However due to the disparity of design and modelling tools across the different design domains, such optimisation is typically only performed at subsystem / domain level (e.g. trajectory or control optimisation). ;The integration of system-wide design information into a single digital system model, affords a new opportunity for optimisation at the system-level.

France

TDE

T708-707SY

THALES ALENIA SPACE FRANCE

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