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In-flight verification of the engineering design data for the Energetic Particle Detector on board the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.06.007 Bibcode: 2021AcAau.187...12P

Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert F.; Elftmann, Robert; Rodríguez-Pacheco, Javier +25 more

This work presents an overview of the in-flight engineering data of the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) instrument suite during its first year of operation. EPD is part of the in-situ scientific payload of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission which was launched in February 2020. After completion of its commissioning phase, Solar Orbiter started it…

2021 Acta Astronautica
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Model-driven environment for configuration control and deployment of on-board satellite software
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2020.09.017 Bibcode: 2021AcAau.178..314P

Carrasco, Alberto; Martínez, Agustín; Sánchez, Sebastián +3 more

This paper describes a model-driven environment for configuration control and deployment of on-board satellite software. The solution enables platform-aware software development through the use of modelling artefacts provided by a framework called MICOBS. The paper describes the proposed platform model, as well as the supporting models needed to c…

2021 Acta Astronautica
SolarOrbiter 1
Icarus: In-situ monitoring of the surface degradation on a near-Sun asteroid
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.05.028 Bibcode: 2021AcAau.186...98L

Granvik, Mikael; Lehtinen, Tuomas; Bellome, Andrea +1 more

Icarus is a mission concept designed to record the activity of an asteroid during a close encounter with the Sun. The primary science goal of the mission is to unravel the nontrivial mechanism(s) that destroy asteroids on orbits with small perihelion distances. Understanding the destruction mechanism(s) allows us to constrain the bulk composition …

2021 Acta Astronautica
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