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High Altitude Pseudo Satellites for Telecommunication and Complementary Space Applicaions (HAPPIEST)

The development of High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites (HAPS) has reached an outstanding level of maturity, with several flight demonstrations that augur soon to have operational capabilities. ESA, aware of the synergies among satellite and HAPS services, set up the HAPPIEST study to analyse the impact of the erruption of aerostatic HAPS into the telecommunications market, currently covered by space and terrestrial networks. Furthermore, some complementary payloads can serve interesting applications such as Earth observation and navigation services.

Spain

15/708-a

Univesiry of Leon
EXPERT: Mars Sample Return architecture assessment study

Several hundred mission scenarios were analysed with a high level of detail both at mission analysis and mass budget level, to properly identify robust and feasible solutions. Three of them make use of both staging and aero-braking to reduce the spacecraft wet mass (mass with fuel), and they all rely either on chemical propulsion or on a mixed system combining a chemical engine with two very powerful electrical thrusters (ARM engines).

Spain

17/M-03-01

Deimos Madrid
Innovative Satellite-based PNT concepts for new RAIL Safety of live applications.

Implementation of the European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 requires that a huge amount of physical balises (known as Eurobalises), used to determine each train’s position and direction of motion, be deployed in order to support safe operation of high-speed / high-frequency train services all along the European railway infrastructure. The associated costs are substantial, which motivates the investigation of cheaper technologies.

Spain

16/S02

GMV
Study to implement disaster risk reduction using innovative data exploitation methods and space assets

The inexorable progress made in the past years in the field of Earth Observation (EO) technologies offers a huge potential for innovation in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) applications. Interferometry processing of SAR data is one of the standard techniques for the detection, detailed characterisation and monitoring of surface motion caused by natural disasters.

Spain

13-037

Altamira Information
Investigation of Active Detumbling Solutions for Debris Removal

The main objective of the GSP Study DETUMBLING –Investigation of Active Detumbling Solutions for Debris Removal - is to propose and investigate a contact-based de-tumbling strategy using a robot arm. Realistic models were developed for the chaser with robotic-arm, target and composite systems. Specific GNC strategies were developed for the different phases of the mission: robotic-arm deployment synchronization with the target de-tumbling the composite.

Spain

13-054

GMV
High performance avionics solution for advanced and complex GNC systems (HIPNOS)

The objective of this document is the presentation of the final synthesis of the activity “HIPNOS”, Development of a representative HW/SW solution for a high-performance processing platform for Active Debris Removal missions. Implement COTS-based solution as Demonstration of the activity.
HIPNOS includes trade-off study of processing technologies, processing space-grade and COTS devices, processing architectures, trade-off for computer vision algorithms, and demonstrator of the selected solution.
The scope and objectives of the activity are:

Spain

13-121

GMV
PREGO - Benchmarking for Re-entry Prediction (Parallel c)

The objective of ESA PREGO activity (ESA/ESOC contract 4000115173/15/F/MOS) is to improve the capacities on re-entry prediction thanks to a complete analysis of the outstanding data set related to the GOCE re-entry occurred in October/November 2013.

Spain

14-608-c

DEIMOS Space
GEROS-ISS Cost Reduction Exercise

The main goal of GEROS-ISS is to demonstrate the capabilities of GNSS remote sensing to derive geophysical parameters of ocean, ice and land surfaces, which are associated with geophysical research with special focus on relevant climate change phenomena.

Spain

12/M64-a

Airbus Defence &...
Design for Removal: How to design S/C to support active debris removal if uncontrolled

The population of non-operational objects in the space environment is raising, increasing concern about the safety of operations for current and future space activities. In this respect, space agencies and in particular ESA with its ESA/ADMIN/IPOL (2014) have established policies to mitigate space debris creation. Please refer to the compendium of space debris mitigation standards adopted by states and international organizations, [RD.5], for additional information. This basically implies that satellites in LEO and GEO shall perform an End Of Life (EOL) disposal with a reliability of 90%.

Spain

15/705-a

GMV
Monitoring Ionosphere Over South America to support high precision applications (MImOSA2)

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.

Spain

14-A-1-4

Inst. Geografico Nacional

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