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SMART-OLEV—An orbital life extension vehicle for servicing commercial spacecrafts in GEO
Kaiser, Clemens; Sjöberg, Fredrik; Delcura, Juan Manuel +1 more
Orbital Satellite Services Limited (OSSL) is a satellite servicing company that is developing an orbit life extension vehicle (OLEV) to extend the operational lifetime of geostationary satellites. The industrial consortium of SSC (Sweden), Kayser-Threde (Germany) and Sener (Spain) is in charge to develop and industrialize the space and ground segm…
SMART-1 operations experience and lessons learnt
Camino, Octavio; Alonso, Maria; Gestal, Daniel +8 more
SMART-1 is the first of a series of ESA Small Missions for Advance Research and Technology where elements of the platform and the payload technology have been conceived as a demonstration for future cornerstone missions and an early opportunity for science. SMART-1 has also been an opportunity to experiment with new ways of conducting ground opera…
On the concepts of a highly integrated payload suite for use in future planetary missions: The example of the BepiColombo Mercury planetary orbiter
Schulz, R.; Erd, C.; Buis, E. J. +6 more
Future low resource payload concepts will need to be developed from the viewpoint of a standard integrated payload suite where resources are dramatically reduced through high levels of integration and resource sharing. The study of this approach, its gains together with its limitations was the key objective of this work. The highly compact integra…
SMART-1: Development and lessons learnt
Rathsman, Peter; Kugelberg, Joakim; Bodin, Per +3 more
SMART-1 is the first of the small missions for advanced research and technology as part of ESA's science programme “Cosmic vision”. It was successfully launched on September 27, 2003 and is presently traveling towards its destination, the Moon. The main objective of the mission, to demonstrate solar electric primary propulsion for future Cornersto…
Smart-1: An analysis of flight data
Di Cara, Davina M.; Estublier, Denis
The main purpose of the ESA SMART-1 mission, (Small Mission for Advanced Research and Technology), is to flight-test a new Primary Electric Propulsion sub-System (EPS), a highly efficient and lightweight propulsion sub-System that will eventually be used for long duration deep-space missions, reducing the size and the cost of the propulsion system…
Accommodating electric propulsion on SMART-1
Rathsman, Peter; Kugelberg, Joakim; Bodin, Per +1 more
This paper focuses on the technical challenges that arise when electric propulsion is used on a small spacecraft such as SMART-1. The choice of electric propulsion influences not only the attitude control system and the power system, but also the thermal control as well as the spacecraft structure. A description is given on how the design of the a…