SPACE ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIPS: ACTIVITIES

Mission Propulsion Strategies:

• Launch and in-orbit propulsion trade-off optimisation
• Launch options for small satellite missions
• In-orbit manoeuvring options and trade-off optimisation
• Very high specific impulse systems

Advanced Multi-Spacecraft Mission Design Concepts:

• High data rate low power inter-satellite linking
• Very high accuracy relative range and orientation measurement
• Integrated communications and navigation
• Low mass and cost attitude control
• Launch, transit, orbit insertion and deployment
• Distributed function optimisation

Space Electric Propulsion Verification Standards and Procedures:

• Establishing common practices
• Managing verification measurement uncertainty
• Identifying and quantifying sources of measurement uncertainty
• Managing test facility effects
• Facilitating comparison between tests in different test facilities

Fission Nuclear Electric Power Generation:

• Applications and missions review and update
• Conceptual system design taking account of:
  • Launch and operating constraints
  • Lifetime and candidate mission design drivers
  • Current and emerging technologies
• Technology development roadmap

Space Engineering Academic Development Strategies:

• European global competitiveness
• Variance in European education systems
• Industry and academia relationships

Space equipment business development strategies:

• Ion propulsion systems
• Reaction wheels

Propulsion Test Facility Audits

Bringing together space and terrestrial experts for multi-disciplinary studies, projects and technical support.

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For suppliers and users of space electronic propulsion we determine the nuclear power plant design features to provide very high power for future space exploration.