ESA Open Invitation To Tender AO7432
Open Date: 04/04/2013
Closing Date: 30/05/2013

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 13.1TT.58
Prog. Ref.: ARTES 5.1
Budget Ref.: E/0505-01A – ARTES 5.1
Special Prov.: B+DK+F+D+I+NL+E+S+CH+GB+IRL+A+N+FIN+POR+GR+LUX+CZ+RO+CDN
Tender Type: C
Price Range: 200-500 KEURO
Keywords: ENGINEERING/ TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Establishment: ESTEC
Directorate: Directorate Telecom & Integrated Applica
Department: Telecom Technologies,Product&Systems Dep
Division: Technologies and Product Division
Contract Officer: Wilhelm Theodor Engels
Last Update Date: 04/04/2013
Update Reason: Tender issue

The objective is to demonstrate the suitability to a spacecraft electrical architecture of low insertion force high-density connectors (~250 points) mixing low level signals, power and RF coax connections. Targeted Improvements: The expected improvement is to reduce dramatically the number of connectors in the Service Module to Communication Module interface of a GEO spacecraft and to reduce the number of interception connectors used in AIT. The target is to reduce by 10 days the AIT sequence and to divide by 10 the number of connectors concerned by the two mentioned applications. The mass improvement will be also studied. For the full description of this activity, please consult the telecom website: http://telecom.esa.int/telecom – ‘current and future tenders’.

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