Publications related to Vega (rocket)

Uncooperative Rendezvous in Space: Design of an Electronic Architecture for High Performance Avionic with Multi Sensor Input and Intensive Data Rate

Active Debris Removal missions consist of sending a satellite in space and removing one or more debris from their current orbit. A key challenge is to obtain information about the uncooperative target. By gathering the velocity, position, and rotation of t ...

EPFL2022

High-Power Testing of Guided-Wave Components for the ITER ECH Upper Launcher at the FALCON Test Facility

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Matteo Vagnoni

Each of the four ITER electron cyclotron heating (ECH) upper launchers (ULs) features eight transmission lines (TLs) made of guided-wave components used to inject 170-GHz microwave power into the plasma at a level of up to 1.31 MW per line, at the TL diamo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Enhanced operation of the Eu Ec test facility

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Albert Perez

A Test Facility (TF) has been designed and installed at SPC to allow for the commissioning of the EU gyrotrons developed in view of their integration to the ITER EC system. The first phase of operation of this TF was dedicated to the development of the EU ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Nearing final design of the ITER EC H&CD Upper Launcher

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis, Robert Bertizzolo, Matteo Vagnoni, Florian Ramseyer, Emanuele Poli

The ITER ECRH system consists of 24 gyrotrons with up to 24 MW installed millimeter wave heating power at 170 GHz, power supplies, control system, transmission lines, one Equatorial and the four Upper Launchers. With its high frequency and small beam focus ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

The European Integrated Tokamak Modelling (ITM) effort: achievements and first physics results

Olivier Sauter, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Emanuele Poli

A selection of achievements and first physics results are presented of the European Integrated Tokamak Modelling Task Force (EFDA ITM-TF) simulation framework, which aims to provide a standardized platform and an integrated modelling suite of validated num ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2014

The ITER EC H&CD upper launcher: Structural design

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis

Four ITER EC H&CD (Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive) Upper Launchers will be installed in the ITER Tokamak to counteract plasma instabilities by injection of up to 20 MW of millimeter-wave power at 170 GHz. Each Launcher features a structural s ...

Elsevier2011

Overview of the ITER EC H&CD system and its capabilities

Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Laurie Porte, Jean-Daniel Landis, Francisco Sanchez, Ioannis Pagonakis, Robert Bertizzolo, Hartmut Zohm, Emanuele Poli

The Electron Cyclotron (EC) system for the ITER tokamak is designed to inject >= 20 MW RF power into the plasma for Heating and Current Drive (H&CD) applications. The EC system consists of up to 26 gyrotrons (between 1 and 2 MW each), the associated power ...

Elsevier2011