Publications associées à Agence spatiale européenne

Design for demise applied to spacecraft structural panels and experiments for ClearSpace One platform

With growing awareness of the vulnerability of the near-Earth space region and the anticipated surge in satellite objects, efforts are underway to assess and implement various mitigation strategies. These aim to minimize the impact of space activities and ...

EPFL2024

Advancing spacecraft demisability through a novel composite bolt joint system: a step toward sustainable and safe space environments

Véronique Michaud, Alexandre Achille Looten, Muriel Richard, Antonio Caiazzo

From the recent awareness of the booming number of space debris and their derived worldwide re-entry event threat originating from the use of high survivability components, complementary mitigation measures must be taken for future orbital elements. In thi ...

2023

High power mm-wave loss measurements of ITER ex-vessel waveguide components at the FALCON test facility at the Swiss Plasma Center

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz

Many future fusion devices will rely heavily, if not solely, on electron cyclotron (EC) heating subsystems to provide bulk heating, instability control (neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) stabilization), and thermal instability control. Efficient use of the i ...

E D P SCIENCES2023

Un pouvoir domestique masculin. L’écoute de musique comme instrument de la domination genrée au sein du foyer

Garance Clément, Fiona Ines Del Puppo

À partir d’une enquête par entretien et observation menée auprès d’habitant·es du canton de Genève, en Suisse, cet article étudie le rôle de la musique dans la constitution d’un « pouvoir domestique masculin » et la manière dont ce pouvoir est modulé par l ...

2022

Intensifying space activity calls for increased scrutiny of risks

Romain Buchs

As the pace of space activities accelerates and societies become more reliant on space-based systems, the associated risks deserve more attention. Satellites form a critical infrastructure on which military, civil and commercial entities rely. The services ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center2021

Performance and Micro-Vibrations in Magnetic Bearings for Space Actuators

Guzmán Borque Gallego

The development of new space missions with novel high-performance and very sensitive payloads for Earth observation or scientific missions has imposed considerably tougher requirements in terms of the satellite's pointing accuracy and stability, and thus o ...

EPFL2021

Sun-synchronous repeat ground tracks and other useful orbits for future space missions

Sun Hee Kim, Luzius Gregor Kronig

The development of oceanography and meteorology has greatly benefited from satellite-based data of Earth's atmosphere and ocean. Traditional Earth observation missions have utilised Sun-synchronous orbits with repeat ground tracks due to their advantages i ...

2020

Small satellites for space science A COSPAR scientific roadmap

Volker Gass, Jie Wu, Maurice Borgeaud

This is a COSPAR roadmap to advance the frontiers of science through innovation and international collaboration using small satellites. The world of small satellites is evolving quickly and an opportunity exists to leverage these developments to make scien ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Unsupervised landmark analysis for jump detection in molecular dynamics simulations

Nicola Marzari, Leonid Kahle, Boris Kozinsky, Albert Daniel Musaelian

Molecular dynamics is a versatile and powerful method to study diffusion in solid-state ionic conductors, requiring minimal prior knowledge of equilibrium or transition states of the system's free energy surface. However, the analysis of trajectories for r ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

RRAMSpec: A Design Space Exploration Framework for High Density Resistive RAM

Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

Resistive RAM (RRAM) is a promising emerging Non-Volatile Memory candidate due to its scalability and CMOS compatibility, which enables the fabrication of high density RRAM crossbar arrays in Back-End-Of-Line CMOS processes. Fast and accurate architectural ...

2019

RRAMSpec: A Design Space Exploration Framework for High Density Resistive RAM

Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

Resistive RAM (RRAM) is a promising emerging Non-Volatile Memory candidate due to its scalability and CMOS compatibility, which enables the fabrication of high density RRAM crossbar arrays in Back-End-Of-Line CMOS processes. Fast and accurate architectural ...

2019

Modeling robot geometries like molecules, application to fast multi-contact posture planning for humanoids

Auke Ijspeert, Salman Faraji

Traditional joint-space models used to describe equations of motion for humanoid robots offer nice properties linked directly to the way these robots are built. However, from a computational point of view and convergence properties, these models are not th ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2018

The Gaia mission

Stephan Morgenthaler, Mikaël Martino, Shuangqing Liao, Daniela Werner

Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original interferometric concept was changed to a direct-imaging approach. Both the ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

Microfabricated Electrospray Thrusters for a Modular Spacecraft Propulsion System

Simon Dandavino

With the growing capabilities of miniature components and systems, scientific and exploration missions making use of small spacecraft (

EPFL2014

Potential of the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing telescope for the search for dark matter

Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy

Large observatory for x-ray timing (LOFT) is a concept of a next-generation x-ray telescope considered in the context of the "Cosmic Vision" program of the European Space Agency. The Large Area Detector on board of LOFT will be a collimator-type telescope ...

American Physical Society2014

Fluid-structure thermal coupling and ablation effects in atmospheric entry

Ojas Joshi

This thesis deals with the modelling of fundamental aspects of the mission engineering, the physics, and the constraints of atmospheric entry of space vehicles. The aim of this work is to formulate a coupled approach for the modelling and the simulation of ...

EPFL2013

A compact phased array for SatCom applications

Stefano Vaccaro, Roberto Torres Sánchez

This paper outlines the development of an electronically steerable receive-only array antenna realized within a project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA): the NATALIA project. The antenna has been designed for the reception of mobile satellite serv ...

2013

Design space exploration strategies for FPGA implementation of signal processing systems using CAL dataflow program

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Richard Thavot, Ab Al Hadi Bin Ab Rahman

This paper presents some strategies for design space exploration of FPGA-based signal processing systems that are specified using the CAL dataflow language. The actor- oriented, high-level of abstraction provided by CAL allows flexible exploration and cons ...

2012