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De-risk assessment: RESTORE - RidEshare STructure fOr micRo-launchEr
Germany

G617-241TAjk

SPACE STRUCTURES GMBH
Mobile – Selective Laser Melting (M-SLM) for Construction on the Moon

When setting up a lunar station, technologies for the use of locally available materials are crucial. Such technologies drastically reduce the need for transportation from Earth. This project idea aims to provide proof of a key technology, namely Mobile – Selective Laser Melting (M-SLM) for building large structures on the Moon.

Germany

20-D-T-TEC-03-f

Technische Universität...
Cellular Agriculture

As humans travel further into the Solar System for longer periods of time, many challenges must be solved. One challenge is ensuring an adequate food supply for the crew. Currently all of the food that is consumed by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) is prepackaged on Earth and transported to the ISS. This approach requires a significant investment of mass and the long-term stability of nutrients in the stored food is unclear. Especially the impact of radiation outside of low-Earth orbit may have a negative impact on the stored food.

Germany

20-D-T-TEC-01

Yuri
Data compression as a service

The Data Compression as a Service (DCaaS) study aimed to bring the benefits of data compression to the experimenters on ESA's OPS-SAT platform. It focused on using the POCKET+ algorithm for the compression of housekeeping telemetry data. The project contained a space component, which performed the compression of provided user data, and a ground component, for the decompression of transmitted user data. Three use cases were selected within the scope of the project: file-to-file, packet-to-packet, and stream-to-stream lossless data transfers.

Germany

21-D-S-OPS-02-d

VisionSpace Technologies
Autonomous Non-wheeled all-Terrain rover (ANT)
Wheeled rovers are the clear choice for large traverse exploration of relatively flat terrains.
 
ESA has investigated walking rovers for several years (GSP CESAR, TERP ARAMIE and SPACEWALKER, NPI with DLR and ethz).
Recent advances in leg motoring (serial-elastic actuation) make possible to overcome the issues highlighted in previous ESA work.
There is potential of realising a walking rover for space use in short time.
Germany

T313-603MM

DFKI GmbH
Test automation exchange framework
Large aerospace projects require the collaboration from many partners, which often use their own development tools and frameworks. The validation of such projects relies heavily on test automation to increase the quality and reduce the costs. Unfortunately, the automated tests developed by each partner typically only address their specific activity and rely on specific tool. Over the past few years, several frameworks to support the automated testing and validation of the different parts of a space project have been produced and deployed.
Germany

GT1O-311GD

Etamax Space GmbH
Augmented and Virtual Reality supported Mission Operations
Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) provide new capabilities that have the potential to significantly improve the efficiency of the preparation (e.g. Simulation, planning domain) as well as the conduction of mission operations.
 
Germany

T709-605GD

TERMA GMBH
Visualising injector-coupled combustion instability in lox/H2 flames
A recently completed technology activity (ESA-IPL-PTM-sfe-st-LE-2015-510) attempted to systematically test the capability of numerical tools in predicting injection-coupled combustion instability in lres. This type of instability is caused by the coupling of the acoustic pressure field in the combustion chamber to acoustic resonance modes in the injectors. The results demonstrated unsatisfactory predictive capability due to challenges in accurately capturing key aspects in the modelling, such as the distribution of fluid properties throughout the injector-chamber system.
Germany

T419-605MP

DLR - German Aerospace...
Improved multi-junction solar cells with up to 33% efficiency at end of life
Establishment of technology non-dependence in the area of solar cell technology has been one of the key successes of the TRP programme in recent years. The current situation is that the marketplace remains extremely competitive. The main concern is that the unless European technology keeps up with competition, especially from US solar cell manufacturers, then European products will not be competitive and technology independence will be lost. Continuity of development remains critical in order to maintain this position.
Germany

T703-604EP

AZUR SPACE Solar Power...
Plasmasphere monitoring for space weather impact prediction (PM4SWIP)

Space weather observations and the prediction of expected disturbances on ground- and space-based infrastructure are critical for the safety and evolution of our modern society. Space weather events, like solar storms, can have a significant impact on navigation, communication, power grids and other electrical conducting infrastructures. Therefore, space weather predictions are very important, but recently lack a reliable estimation of the geo-effectivity as well as detailed information for regions and systems potentially affected.

Germany

21-P-M-OPS-02-c

DLR - German Aerospace...

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