ESA Science & Technology - Cross-Scale Technology Reference Study - Summary Report

Publication date: 06 December 2007

Authors: Falkner, P., van den Berg, M., Wielders, A., Stankov, A.

Journal: ESA document: SCI-PAP/2007/155/CS/PF
Year: 2007

This Cross-Scale summary report provides a summary of the system design study carried out by industry (Deimos Space S.L. as prime, Thales Alenia Space and ONERA as sub-contractors) under ESA contract between May 2006 and June 2007. The first phase of the system design study consisted of a mission architecture trade. Key trades on the mission architecture included orbits, number of spacecraft, payload suites, deployment strategy, and orbit optimization. The second phase consisted of an assessment of the spacecraft design, ground segment requirements and programmatics.