Project description
Aiming towards more efficient space launches
The push for space exploration and communications has resulted in costly missions, added space debris, and issues of safe disposal on re-entry. ASCenSIon project is focused on multiple payloads in orbits, reuse of propulsion systems, and ecologic and economic sustainability. It will examine technologies both in simulations and test runs to assess durability of propulsion systems, and will develop systems for monitoring orbit and landing conditions for multiple launches. This will require advanced models in thermodynamics and aerodynamics tested against cold-flow and hot fire techniques, wireless sensor networks, and reliable guidance, navigation and control systems (GNC) to ensure feasibility and application, changing the profile of space launches.
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Coordinator
01069 Dresden
Germany
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Participants (10)
51147 Koln
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Participation ended
70042 Mola Di Bari
00185 Roma
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91120 Palaiseau
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1050 Bruxelles
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28199 Bremen
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56126 Pisa
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38106 Braunschweig
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20133 Milano
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28760 Tres Cantos (Madrid)
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