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Lunar ISRU Demonstration Mission Definition Study Segment 2

The study and exploitation of In Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) technologies (with an initial focus on the Moon) are stimulating an increasing interest in the international community, both at Agency and industry levels, in view of and in preparation for future crewed exploration missions and in terms of scientific and societal long-term benefits.

Italy

18_M-HRE-1E

Thales Alenia Space
Powering rovers by High Intensity Laser Induction on Planets (PHILIP)

The scope of this study was to investigate the possibility of designing a wireless power transfer system from the lander to the rover, based on laser technology, to:

  • Avoid the use of nuclear power systems, such as the plutonium Multi Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) accommodated onboard the NASA/JPL MSL Curiosity Rover, due to the constraints imposed by the use of radioactive materials

Italy

15/023

Leonardo
Mission performance assessment for space science missions

The objective of this activity was to propose a general infrastructure of an end-to-end simulator (E2ES) for space science missions, namely an E2ES requirements baseline, reference architecture and an associated library of software models (building blocks, BB) to promote reuse, standardisation and reduction of engineering costs by defining a products/science validation process throughout the lifecycle based on an E2ES.

Italy

16/S10

University of Trieste
GALIST Galileo Smart Traceability

GALIST is a project that supports the traceability of food products linked to their position and the occurrence of significant events (e.g. labelling, packaging, shipping). The system is based on an innovative concept that uses GNSS combined with ADSB data, which is provided by airplanes. The GALIST project uses, in fact, a double-certification approach – based on a proprietary algorithm – to keep track of products.

Italy

16/703

Origosat
Reliable TT&C during superior solar conjunctions

The purpose of this study was to define the a communication subsystem architecture (including both ground and space segments, as well as operational methods) that allows robust RF TT&C links during superior solar conjunction phases. The defined architecture shall ensure robust and reliable links in scintillation regimes (i.e. at low SEP angles) where TT&C links are nowadays degraded, leading to occasional link interruptions. Similarly, the defined architecture shall ensure that at even higher scintillation regimes (i.e.

Italy

13-028-a

University of Bologna
Clean Sat technology assessment and concurrent engineering in support of LEO platform evolutions

In this activity, LSI's Airbus, OHB and Thales Alenia Space evaluated CleanSat technologies.

Italy

15/M61-c

Thales Alenia Space
Benchmarking re-entry prediction uncertainties (Parallel b)

The project is dedicated to an in-depth study of the re-entry of ESA's Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), for which a rich measurement dataset is available up to the very end of its decay phase.

Italy

14-608-b

Space Dynamics Services
Performance simulator for bu-static SAR missions

This activity presents a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) simulator designed to assess the performance of bi-static SAR missions. It is a modular software able to simulate realistic SAR data (including injection of the system non-idealities), to estimate the SAR performance at radiometric and interferometric level. In order to ensure accurate measures of the bi-static performance, it simulates raw data exploiting a time-domain approach, without assumptions on the acquisition geometry. This feature makes the simulator a useful tool for the design of new SAR missions concepts.

Italy

15/720

Aresys
Disaster risk reduction using innovative data exploitation methods and space assets

The difficult and costly access to reliable and quality Earth Observation (EO) satellite data has historically often limited the development of operational and sustainable services in multiple application domains (among which Disaster Risk Management) and, as a consequence, it has impaired the benefit that the society could have been receiving back as a return of huge multi annual investments in the space sector.

Italy

13-037

E-GEOS
Optical Compressive Sensing(CS) technologies for space applications

Shannon-Nyquist theorem rules the signal sampling stating that the signal must be sampled at a rate of at least twice the maximum frequency present in the signal to be fully reconstructed. Compressive Sensing (CS) theory affirms that a sparse signal can be efficiently reconstructed by the acquisition of a number of samples far below the minimal one dictated by Nyquist theorem, thus providing a new approach to data acquisition. CS technique is based on the concept of sparsity. The information rate of a continuous 'sparse' signal may be much smaller than suggested by its bandwidth.

Italy

13-057-a

CNR-IFAC

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