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Huygens Flight Performance Analyses: Parachutes Performance and Aerothermal aspects

The Huygens mission was the first, and currently the only, successful ESA mission to land a probe on another planet or moon. It was the most distant planetary landing to date by any space agency and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
An industrial team comprising Vorticity Ltd, Fluid Gravity Engineering and the Von Karman Institute has carried out a study to examine aspects of the Huygens probe performance which were not as expected and to compile the lessons learned from the mission.

UK

12-704

VORTICITY LTD
Development Strategy for Nano-enabled fibre reinforced plastics

The scope of the project was to investigate and develop suitable strategies for the development of nano-enabled fibre reinforced plastics (neFRP) in order to produce materials tailored to the customer's needs and requirements. Within the scope of the work was also to establish a quality control system to assure that the produced products are of acceptable quality and can be integrated in functional parts for space applications.

UK

12-713

ADAMANT COMPOSITES LTD
Simplified models for aerothermodynamics analysis of space craft components: "design for demise"

Thousands of man-made objects are currently in orbit around the Earth. These range from active satellites to flecks of paint, via spent rocket stages and fragments of satellite debris. Due to the drag of the very thin high altitude atmosphere, these objects have slowly decaying orbits, and will eventually re-enter the Earth's thicker, lower atmosphere. Most will be destroyed on entry due to the aerothermal heating experienced at hypersonic velocities at altitudes between 40 and 80km. However, some objects reach the ground.

UK

12-605

FLUID GRAVITY...
End-Of-Life Disposal Concepts for Lagrange-Point and Highly Elliptical Orbit Missions

Libration Point Orbits (LPO) and Highly Elliptical Orbits (HEO) are often selected for astrophysics and solar terrestrial missions as they offer vantage points for the observation of the Earth, the Sun and the Universe. No guidelines currently exist for LPO and HEO missions' end-of-life; however, as current and future missions are planned to be placed on these orbits, it is a critical aspect to define a sustainable strategy for their disposal, with the objective to avoid interference with protected regions.

UK

12-602

University of Southampton
Innovative service oriented approach to the procurement and development of an active debris removal demonstration mission

The overall rationale for such a study has been driven by two factors. Firstly the unexpected on-orbit failure of the Envisat mission in 2012, has now created a specific and immediate ‘debris problem’ for ESA. Secondly, the number of and density of damaging space debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is predicted to rise in the future, which has the potential to negatively constrain future space operations for all operators and users.

UK

2013-3

Surrey Satellite...
Mars Hopper Concept Technologies

Proof of Mars Hopper Concept Technologies was an eight-month study funded by ESA’s General Studies Programme from ECSAT in Harwell. The study has focussed on increasing the TRL of key technologies required for the Mars Hopper concept, which were:
- In Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) subsystem to collect and store CO2 from the atmosphere and deliver it to the propulsion system. Locally generated propellant doe snot require transportation to Mars providing a huge mass saving

UK

2013-2

Airbus Defence &...
SMART MICROSYSTEMS FOR SPACE APPLICATION

In traditional data processing and control architectures for space systems, one or a few centralised computing nodes are used.
All sensors, actuators, and other data sources and data sinks are connected to these nodes in a star– or multi-star topology. Actuators and associated sensors (e.g. heaters and associated temperature sensors) are usually kept separate, with individual harnesses connecting them to the central nodes.

UK

2012-18

SEA Ltd

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