Descripción del proyecto
Proporcionar herramientas para el futuro del diseño de naves espaciales
Para diseñar naves espaciales fiables, hay que tener en cuenta una gran variedad de anomalías y desafíos ambientales, como la radiación y los desechos espaciales. A fin de superar estos obstáculos, las naves espaciales suelen tener un diseño muy complicado, lo que aumenta considerablemente su coste y complejidad. La comercialización del espacio pasa, cada vez más, por las pequeñas empresas que utilizan las tecnologías existentes para lanzar constelaciones de pequeños satélites. Este enfoque puede reducir el coste, el peso, el tamaño y el tiempo de producción, pero también presenta retos que aumentan la incertidumbre y reducen la fiabilidad. El proyecto MISSION, financiado con fondos europeos, desarrollará las tecnologías necesarias para ayudar en los aspectos críticos del diseño de naves espaciales. El objetivo es mejorar la fiabilidad y la eficacia de las futuras misiones espaciales de la industria espacial europea y mundial.
Objetivo
"Spacecraft must work robustly in the presence of uncertainties such as random hardware faults, operator mistakes, space debris, and radiation. Classic space missions address uncertainty via large safety margins and bult-in redundancy, leading to a spiral of increasing cost and complexity. A recent trend is the small-business commercialisation of space using commercial-off-the-shelf components for networked constellations of small satellites. This ""New Space"" approach reduces component weight, size, price, and lead time, and makes innovation increasingly driven by software. This pertains especially to resource management and data handling, while simpler components and new interactions increase uncertainty, and come with less reliable parts. Thus, overall mission connectivity, efficiency, dependability and safety in the New Space needs to be achieved on a system level - for which there is no systematic approach yet. This is partly rooted in the empirical focus of many teams, and partly in a lack of easy-to-use methods to model, analyse, and guarantee system-level dependability. This interdisciplinary project sets out to solve this space engineering problem by exploiting highly advanced techniques from the forefront of computing science research, especially model-based algorithmics. We strive for sound and efficient software tools for the development of dependable, networked, and resource-aware New Space missions. For this, the MISSION project will develop an integrated model-based technology to establish and maintain system-level properties of critical space mission parameters. A strong consortium of excellent academic and industrial partners in Europe, Argentina, and China has agreed on a joint research and knowledge sharing agenda that will foster a shared culture of research and innovation, to finally deliver an ecosystem of easy-to-use methods and software tools to the New Space industry."
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringastronautical engineeringspacecraft
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
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MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)Coordinador
7522 NB Enschede
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