The work performed considers the work done since the beginning of the project until the closure, March 2021.
WP1 has been carried out throughout the project. A Project Management Plan was submitted at the beginning of the project, which has been later followed. WP1 has mainly consisted on coordinating technical, administrative and financial activities and reporting progress. IPR and legal aspects as well as the coordination of the advisory board have been activities performed during the project.
WP 2 TECHNOLOGY ENHANCEMENT has been successfully completed. This work package has consisted on the design improvement and optimization, on which a design description document has been delivered. In addition the Engineering model prototype has been manufactured and the tests to be carried out designed and prepared. Finally the tests have been carried out obtaining the results described in the EM Test results document uploaded to SYGMA.
WP3 VALIDATION has been almost completed, the PFM was design and has been manufactured as well as the test rig. Some difficulties that will be later explained have been encountered during the procurement and manufacturing phase. With regards to the test campaign, vibration and thermal tests have not been able to be completed. Nevertheless, the functionality and leak testing of the MPL has been successfully verified, as well as the acceptance test, which consisted of testing the functionality in order to prove the correct performance of the test rig with the PFM integrated for verifying that the tests that will later be carried out during the parabolic flight are valid.
WP4 PARABOLIC FLIGHT TESTING PREPARATION has also been finished. The test plan to be held during the parabolic flight of the MPL PFM has been generated, coordinating with the flight operator for considering the required documentation related to the parabolic flight. This task will continue after the closure of this grant agreement, because AVS has a contract with ESA for performing the parabolic flight, which will try to be middle 2022. For more information, please, see ANNEX 1 from the periodic report.
The tasks from WP5 COMMUNICATION & BP UPDATE have been also done. The dissemination & communication roadmap submitted considers the plan which has been followed after the amendment. The project website was also launched at the beginning of the project and has been updated with the different activities performed
https://heart-mpl.space/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie). The business plan proposed at the beginning of the project has also been updated and submitted.
The PFM is not ready for the parabolic flight at this point. First, qualification campaign will need to be finished.
The ethics assessment has been completed and two deliverables related to dual use and materials have been uploaded to the platform.
