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Improvement of sample containment/handling for volatile analysis

Heating samples to extract volatiles is a standard way to characterise solid samples. By heating a sample and recording the temperature profile results it can explain a lot about the nature of those volatiles and allow them to be collected and analysed further. This technique is, in principle, a standard process in terrestrial laboratories and the same principle is applied in-situ for planetary analysis where solid samples are delivered to an oven, which is sealed and heated to produce signatures of the volatiles.

United Kingdom

T314-503MM

The OPEN UNIVERSITY
Design for Recycling - Mission architectures to manufacture, refurbish and recycle satellites on-orbit

The main objective of the OMAR Mission Architecture study is to identify and trade-off different mission architectures, to provide different services on-orbit. For each of the relevant scenarios, this objective shall be achieved by defining the associated system functional analysis and by trading-off different architectures and concepts of operations. Furthermore, the impact of aspects such as: operational orbit, type of serviced satellites, services provided, different levels of autonomy, and any other relevant factors is to be assessed.

Germany

19-D-S-TEC-02

OHB System AG
Effective use of Germanium

Germanium (Ge) has been identified as one of the major environmental hotspots of ESA’s space missions. As one of the critical raw materials the use of it (mainly driven by solar cells) is a major contributor to mineral resource depletion.
Today, Germanium is used as a growth template for certain solar cells. While the thickness of the Germanium on a solar cell level is extremely thin, around 140μm, actually only 10-20μm are actively being used. The rest is structural.

Belgium

T724-608EP

UMICORE NV
OMAR – On orbit manufactured spacecraft

The objective of this activity is to assess the system level and design impacts of optimising a satellite design for on-orbit manufacturing and assembly, as well as preparing it to be refurbished, reused or recycled on orbit afterwards, and to identify the technologies needed.

Italy

19-D-S-TEC-05

Thales Alenia Space
Subwave+

A GSTP Element 2 activity with France, has taken an existing product used to help signals from satellites reach underground and developed and improved it for navigation purposes.

France

GT26-024ES

SYNTONY
FLUIDICS (FLUID DYNAMICS IN SPACE) SLOSH4AOCS

The objective of Fluidics experiment is in the first instance to validate the behavior of fluids predicted by computational tools and a priori models in a controlled long duration microgravity environment. From the technological perspective objective of the experiment addresses issues relative to the slosh of fluids during specific spacecraft and satellites maneuvers. The more fundamental objective aims at observing capillary wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid layer in a low-gravity environment in order to be able to correct the physics assumed in computational tools.

France

19-P-O-TEC-02

Cnes
De-risk assessment: Spectrometer for Marine Litter

Marine litter causes enormous damage to ecosystems and has become a concern for human health, since plastic has been found entering the food chain. 

To try to solve this, research and industrial communities are now working on systems for detecting and/or capturing marine litter debris. Satellite-based detection approaches, in particular, are still in the early stage of their development and need to be validated with ground truth data and observations.

Portugal

G617-241TAcz

INESC TEC - Instituto de...
Americium Fuel Pellet Development and Medium Scale Plant Design
Over the past decade, a new and innovative European radioisotope power technology based on americium-241 has been successfully developed. Radioisotope heater units and generators rely on the provision of americium-241 radioisotope material to provide energy. A GSTP Element 1 activity with the UK has advanced the manufacturing capability of 241AM radioisotopes. This sets up an independent European capability in radioisotope power sources that will enable a range of deep space and planetary/lunar missions that are currently impossible without outside nuclear technologies.
United Kingdom

GT13-008EP

NATIONAL NUCLEAR...
Space Debris Deflection by Space-Based Laser

The study takes place in the context of the space environment remediation. Tackling the issue of space debris is becoming more and more critical as it becomes more dangerous for existing and future space missions. Solutions must be found to ensure the security of space missions security and a clean space environment. Laser pressure solutions are considered promising as they only using momentum transfer to perform debris manoeuvres to avoid collisions. This means that no additional debris is generated using this technique.

France

19-D-T-OPS-01

Thales Alenia Space
Securing NG-Ultra FPGA development through innovative System-on-a-Chip (SoC) validation
The BRAVE series of reprogrammable FPGA’s represent an entirely new area of development for microelectronics. These high performance, very advanced electronics could revolutionise the manufacturing process and performance of multiple missions. Alongside their development there is a current industry initiative to standardise avionics systems. As part of this venture, GSTP Element 2 has initiated an activity to develop a standardised box, which will contain all the different computer modules, such as power boards, and ensure they are all compatible.
France

GT27-046ED

AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE...

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