ESA Open Invitation To Tender AO8815
Open Date: 13/12/2016
Closing Date: 07/02/2017 13:00:00

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 16.197.22
Prog. Ref.: General Studies
Budget Ref.: E/0600-00 – General Studies
Special Prov.: BE+DK+FR+DE+IT+NL+ES+SE+CH+GB+IE+AT+NO+FI+PT+GR+LU+CZ+RO+PL+EE+HU+CA
Tender Type: C
Price Range: 200-500 KEURO
Products: Orbital Transportation & Re-entry Systems / Mechanisms / Mechanisms / Other / Satellites & Probes / System Engineering Software / System Modelling & Simulation / Mission analysis tools (Orbital modelling and simulation)
Techology Domains: Others
Establishment: ESTEC
Directorate: Directorate of Technical & Quality Manag
Department: System, Software & Technology Department
Division: Future Prep. & Strategic Studies Off.
Contract Officer: Singer, Anze
Industrial Policy Measure: N/A – Not apply
Last Update Date: 13/12/2016
Update Reason: Tender issue

The objective of this activity is to perform a feasibility study of active debris removal concepts for mega constellations, and trade re-entry, de-orbiting and active orbit cleaning.Not only shall satellites within constellations comply with ESAs Space Debris mitigation rules, it may also be more cost effective for the constellation operator to remove inactive satellites from the constellation to a non-protected LEO zone (or even to re-enter them) than to not remove them and accept occasional collisions, or to maintainconstellation by e.g. increasing reliability on each satellite within the constellation or increasing number of satellites.

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