Small Satellite is a very attractive strategy for developing national or regional hyperspectral missions.

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SAVOIR is an initiative to federate the space avionics community and to work together in order to improve the way that the European Space community builds avionics subsystems. In particular, it is aimed at getting equipment interchangeability. In particular, the group provides a set of standard avionics external and internal interfaces, the definition of building blocks composing the architecture and the functional specification of selected building blocks. One of the building block of the On-Board Reference Architecture is the Solid State Mass Memory.

The depletion of stratospheric ozone due to anthropogenic emissions of long-lived substances containing chlorine and other halogens was first identified as a matter of international concern in the mid-1970s and has received increasing attention since the mid-1980s after the discovery of the ozone hole. Today, in spite of the successful application of the Montreal Protocol and its amendments, the atmospheric halogen loading is still above natural levels and will remain so until the middle of this century.

In view of lunar exploration, which is foreseen to be one of the next steps in human space exploration, Lunar Analogues are and will continue to be powerful tools to support the development, demonstration and validation of new technologies and operational concepts. Furthermore Lunar Analogues will serve as an environment for Astronaut training, Behavioural Health and Performance research as well as providing engaging activities for the public.

The test was performed down to a temperature of 120K.

An ESA study is starting considering the system aspects of the use of the multi-core for our applications, and this study will define the final technical solutions. However, the trend seems to be towards the use of a hypervisor. If this is confirmed, there could be a convergence between the various hypervisors used for partitioning, for security and for multi-core. An environment for hypervisor could therefore be reused, which is the focus of the the proposed activity.

Gaps in existing radiation environment and effects standards adversely affect human spaceflight developments. The most important drivers in the domain of interplanetary and planetary radiation environments were investigated, identifying appropriate data sources and modelling methods to address the needs of future interplanetary manned mission design and operation.

Gratings are frequently used in optical instruments, e.g. spectrometers. Various production methods are available like etching using a hologram and ruling on high precision latches.