Project Status

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Project Status
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Telling stories
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The Story

• The Inheritance
• Stellar seismology is recognized as a priority
  Scientific Prospective Workshop (Deauville, 1985)
• Study of the Sun
• Ground observation
• IPHIR (Phobos mission)
• GOLF (Soho mission)
• EVRIS (Mars-96)
• The Birth
• Scientific Prospective Workshop (Saint-Malo,
  1993)
• The Search for extra-solar planets did join the
  program
• The Maturation ? 1993-1999
• Phases 0, A B
• The difficult starting 1999-2003
• COROT in the frame of the Faster Cheaper
  scientific missions based on the PROTEUS bus
  (Jason-1, Calipso, Corot, Smos, Jason-2)

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A long story
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The PROTEUS Bus

• PROTEUS is a multi-mission platform European
  standard
• Qualified for all LEO missions
• 500-600 kg satellite class, 1m3 volume (bus)
• Typical payload envelope 300kg, 300W
• PROTEUS flight domain
• Any orbit in the 700-1500 km range
• Precise 3-axis attitude control
• Compatible with available small-medium launchers
• And an associated generic Ground Segment
• PROTEUS stands for Plateforme Réutilisable
  pour lObservation, les Télécommunications
  Et Utilisations Scientifiques

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A long way The Instrument
1995 - Phase 0
1997 - Phase A
Sept 2004 the Flight Model
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Organization Overview
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Cooperation

• Cooperation is the main feature of the COROT
  organization
• Cooperation makes the management more difficult,
  the relationship being based on the best effort
  of each party
• Cooperation makes more technical interfaces to
  handle at system level
• So, why looking for cooperation ?
• Cooperation has been mandatory to re-start the
  program in 2000/2001
• Cooperation increases the ressources (more funds,
  more manpower)
• Probably the most important, Cooperation makes
  the project stronger from the human being
  prospecpective
• By very fruitful exchanges of engineering
  practices, ways of work and simply cultures
• By giving to this mission an international
  dimension

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Brasil in Corot

• Management
• Steering Committee
• Science
• Scientific Committee
• Co-Is
• Ground Obsevation
• Natal ground station (hardware operations)
• Researchers Engineers (5)
• Edouardo Costa, Claudia Angeli (at Meudon)
• Leonardo Pinheiro (at Cnes-Toulouse, in-flight
  calibrations)
• Fabio Fialho (at Meudon, working with M. Auvergne
  on windowings)
• Vanderleï Parro( Meudon, Instrument-BEX
  electronics integration)

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The Present
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The Present

• The project is a hive of activity
• 15 (successful) reviews within the last 10
  months
• The System and all components are under
  development
• The System The System Interfaces Review is
  coming
• The Ground Segment Mission Centre Design
  Customization of the Proteus standard Control
  Centre
• The Satellite The Flight Model of the Proteus
  Bus is under integration
• The Instrument the Flight Model is under
  integration (EMI/EMC tests are starting)
• The Launcher is ordered (Soyuz from Baïkonour)
• Everything is on-time for a Launch at Baïkonour
  (Kazakhstan) planned during the Summertime of
  2006 (June is targeting)
• The funding is nominal

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Pictures of some Flight Models
M1 mirror
Baffle
PROTEUS
Telescope structure
Telecope with mirrors OD
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The 2005 Milestones

• Next Wintertime
• Start of the final integration of the instrument
  in Toulouse
• System Interfaces Review
• Springtime
• Satellite CDR
• Preliminary Launcher Mission Analysis Review
• Summertime
• Acceptance tests of the Instrument
• Earth Terminal (TTCET) delivery in Natal
• Ground segment Integration
• Start of System Compatibility tests
• In the Fall
• Delivery of the Instrument for Flight
• Satellite Integration
• System Validation

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Status in short

• A strong acceleration of the project
• The flight hardware is under manufacturing,
  integration test
• The System activities are on time
• The Ground Segment and the preparation of the
  Operations are on time
• The launcher is ordered
• The COROT mission is in a good shape

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The Short in short

• The working days are very long and by the same
  time very short
• The COROT mission is still leading the race
• The COROT project is vey happy to work with
  BRASIL
• The life is beautiful (particularly in NATAL)