Publication date: 30 Jun 2011

Year: 2011

Copyright: ESA

Summary of the study performed at ESA's Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) into the M-class mission Space-Time Explorer and QUantum Equivalence Principle Space Test (STE-QUEST).

Contents of the presentation:

• Study: goals, tasks, organization
• Drivers and constraints
• Configuration and payload accomodation
• Instruments
• Mission analysis
• Ground stations and operations
• Attitude and orbit control
• System design
• Communication
• Budgets
• Risk, programmatics, cost
• Requirements review
• Conclusions

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