LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE INDUSTRIAL SPACE STRATEGIES

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LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE INDUSTRIALSPACE
STRATEGIES

• Michel Courtois
• ESA/ESTEC

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ESA Technology Strategy Top-Level Objectives

• Prepare and enable future European space
  programmes and ensure coherence of technology
  developments schedule (ad-hoc maturity level) for
  maximum use by projects
• Foster innovation in architectures of space
  systems, identification of disruptive
  technologies, developments of new concepts
• Support competitiveness of industry in the
  European institutional markets and in the global
  commercial markets
• Ensure European Technology non-dependence/ ensure
  the availability of European sources for critical
  technologies,
• Leverage on technological progresses and
  innovations, outside the space sector to use and
  adapt them to design new space systems (spin-in)
• Start security for citizens techno program.

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Flight Demonstration Example
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ESA Technology End-to-End process
European Space Policy and Programme
ESA Strategy and Programmes
European and Worldwide Technology Assessment
ESA Technology Strategy
User Programme Needs
European Harmonisation/ESTMP
Industry Consultation
ESA Technology Long Term Plan
Technology Monitoring/ Evaluation
Technology Implementation
Industrial products
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ESA Technology Programmes and Technology Maturity
A real product policy is put in place to ensure
adequacy of needed products to the maturity level
required by the programmes.
Remarks 1) The necessary investments increase
significantly with the level of maturity to be
achieved 2) Full qualification is impacted by the
system environment and is most of the time
mission specific 3) Technology development should
be regularly confronted to market demand AND ADD
PROG TTPEMIR/MFC PRODEX DUP
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ESA Technology Programme versus Technology
Readiness Levels
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Technology and Application Programmes
Early phases of the application programmes will
be accompanied to maximise utilisation of
European technologies.
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ESA Technology Programmes TRP GSTP

• Basic Technology Research Programme (TRP)
• Part of ESA Mandatory Programmes
• Covering all technology disciplines
  applications
• Based on three year Workplan, with yearly updates
• About 38 M in commitments per Year
• General Support Technology Programme (GSTP)
• Optional Programme - Each member state
  decides
• gt The amount of its
  participation
• gt The technological
  activities to support
• Covering general purpose technology developments
• Three year cycle with regular updates
• Regular AOs are part of GSTP
• gt30 Meuro in commitments per Year, Industrial
  co-funding possible

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ESA Technology Programmes TRP GSTP
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ARTES Programme Elements
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Evolutions des technologies
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Network speed, Space / Ground

• ERC 32 computer 17Mips
• SpaceWire (200Mbps)
• Commercial PC 1000Mips

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EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGIES

• Evolution of AOCS sensors
• Star Trackers
• APS-based Star Tracker (centre)
• for the Bepi-Colombo mission,
• shown between a precursor Cassini
• Stellar Reference Unit (right) and
• a CCD-based Autonomous Star Tracker (left)
• MEMS gyroscopes
• Rate sensor based on Coriolis effect,
• being adapted from terrestrial model
• for space applications

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EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGIES
Digital Integrated Circuit evolutions ASICs and
FPGAs

• Improve radiation hardening of re- programmable
  FPGA
• On-board data processing for data compression and
  reduction
• Compression factors up to several 1000 dependent
  on the sensor are possible

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EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGIES

• Enabling Control Technologies
• Earth Observation
• Agility
• Drag free
• Science missions
• High accuracy pointing
• Formation flying
• Exploration
• Safe precision Entry Descent Landing systems
• Autonomous Rendez-Vous Systems
• Fault Tolerant Control Systems
• Micro GNC Systems
• Increased autonomy
• Launchers
• Fault Tolerant Control Systems
• Telecoms

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CONCLUSION

• Technology improvements forces to modify the
  system architecture approach, especially for
  operational missions.
• Technology improvements of equipments in mass,
  power requirements on board computer performance
  increase, integration of complex functions in
  asics and programmable FPGA, optics and
  simulation performances increase make possible
  changes in spacecraft architecture small and
  more autonomous s/c can provide top level
  solutions.