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Industrial involvement in the Gaia spacecraft

Industrial involvement in the Gaia spacecraft

Gaia was designed and built by Astrium (now Airbus Defence and Space), with a core team composed of Astrium France, Germany and UK. The industrial team included 50 companies from 15 European states, along with firms from the US. Some 80 contracts were placed with European companies and three with those in the US. The spacecraft was launched by Arianespace. Between 2,500 and 3,000 people in all are involved in the mission.

Autriche/Austria

  Austria

Contractor Contracted Item
Siemens Spacecraft electrical ground support equipment: power/pyro
RUAG Aerospace Payload module and focal plane assembly thermal hardware
RUAG Aerospace Thermal passive hardware (multi-layer insulation)
RUAG Aerospace Service module mechanical ground segment equipment: container and other items
RUAG Aerospace Focal plane assembly mechanical ground segment equipment
Siemens Radio frequency suitcase


Belgique/Belgium

  Belgium

Contractor Contracted Item
AMOS M2 mirrors and chemical vapour deposition
AMOS M4 mirrors and chemical vapour deposition
AMOS M5 mirrors and chemical vapour deposition
CSL Payload module mechanical ground segment equipment (lot 6): Thermal vacuum ground segment equipment
CSL Payload module thermal vacuum test facilities
SpaceBel Payload data handling unit software


Danemark/Denmark

  Denmark

Contractor Contracted Item
Rovsing Spacecraft independent software verification & validation
Terma Payload module: assembly, integration and test support (test software)


Finlande/Finland

  Finland

Contractor Contracted Item
Patria Electrical interface unit
SSF Software components production


France/France

  France

Contractor Contracted Item
EADS/Astrium SAS Gaia industrial prime
EADS/Astrium SAS Spacecraft assembly, integration and test
EADS/Astrium SAS Spacecraft electrical ground support equipment: central check-out system software
Boostec Silicon carbide structures & mirror blanks
Sagem M1 mirror and chemical vapour deposition
Sagem Auto collimation flat mirror
Latelec Payload module harness
Intespace Focal plane assembly thermal vacuum facility
EADS/Astrium SAS Gyro
EADS/Astrium SAS Radial velocity spectrometer opto-mechanical assembly
Intespace Test Facilities


Allemagne/Germany

  Germany

Contractor Contracted Item
EADS/Astrium GmbH Mechanical Service Module
Zeiss M3 mirrors and chemical vapour deposition
EADS/Astrium GmbH Thermal active hardware
IOF Radial velocity spectrometer grating

 


Ireland

  Ireland

Contractor Contracted Item
Mc Ginley RAMS (Reliability, availability, maintainability and safety)
Mc Ginley Product assurance / quality assurance support


Italie/Italy

  Italy

Contractor Contracted Item
Alcatel Alenia Space Micro-propulsion thruster assembly, micro-propulsion feed module, micro-propulsion electronics
Alcatel Alenia Space (laben) Interconnection module (focal plane assembly/CCD)
Selex Galileo Photometer prisms
Selex Galileo Radial velocity spectrometer prisms
Selex Galileo Solar array
Selex Galileo Power control (conditioning) and distribution unit
Alcatel Alenia Space X band transponder
Selex Galileo Star tracker
SILO Basic angle monitor density assembly

 

Pays-Bas/Netherlands

  Netherlands

Contractor Contracted Item
SSBV Spacecraft electrical ground support equipment: teleMetry and telecommand special check-out equipment
Dutch Space Spacecraft electrical ground support equipment: avionic special check-out equipment
Dutch Space Spacecraft electrical ground support equipment: real-time simulator
TNO Basic angle monitor opto-mechanical assembly
TNO Wavefront sensor opto-mechanical assembly
SSBV Payload module electrical ground support equipment
TNO Payload module optical ground support equipment: thermal vacuum auto collimation flat mirror mechanism
TNO Sun sensor


Norvège/Norway

  Norway

Contractor Contracted Item
Kongsberg Basic angle monitor / wavefront sensor optical sources & electronics
Prototech Mass dummies


Portugal/Portugal

  Portugal

Contractor Contracted Item
Deimos Spacecraft database support
Skysoft Spacecraft electrical ground support equipment: central checkout system hardware
Lusospace Focal plane assembly: test optical ground support equipment and optical tools
Ineti Video processing unit algorithms validation support (focal plane assembly simulator)


Espagne/Spain

  Spain

Contractor Contracted Item
Sener M2 alignment device
Crisa Proximity electronics module
Alcatel Alenia Space Clock distribution unit
EADS Casa Service module structure
EADS Casa Service module harness
Rymsa Low-gain antenna
Sener Deployable sunshield assembly
EADS Casa Phased-array antenna

 

  Sweden

Contractor Contracted Item
Saab Ericsson Space Command and data management unit


La Suisse/Switzerland

  Switzerland

Contractor Contracted Item
RUAG Aerospace Bipods & release mechanism
RUAG Aerospace Thermal tent structure
Syderal Payload data handling unit
APCO Payload module mechanical ground support equipment
SpectraTime Rubidium atomic clock module


Royaume-Uni/United Kingdom

  United Kingdom

Contractor Contracted Item
EADS/Astrium Ltd Electrical Service Module
Selex Systems Spacecraft documentation, configuration, schedule support
e2v Technologies CCD detectors
EADS/Astrium Ltd Payload module & focal plane assembly structural pieces
EADS/Astrium Ltd Video processing unit
MSSL Focal plane assembly: CCD/Proximity electronics module coupling
EADS/Astrium Ltd Chemical propulsion system
ABSL Battery
Aerostanrew Ltd Avionics model bench structure


United States

  United States

Contractor Contracted Item
Arde Micro-propulsion tank
Maxwell Video processing unit digital board
Barr Blue Photometer / Red Photometer / Radial Velocity Spectrometer optical filters

 

Last Update: 1 September 2019
19-Mar-2024 02:01 UT

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