ESA Open Invitation To Tender AO8868
Open Date: 27/01/2017
Closing Date: 24/03/2017 13:00:00

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 16.197.30
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+SI
Tender Type: C
Price Range:     100-200 KEURO
Products: Satellites & Probes / Payloads / Instruments / InfraRed instruments / Telescopes / Satellites & Probes / Payloads / Instruments / Optical Instruments / Optical Telescopes
Techology Domains: Others
Establishment: ESTEC
Directorate: Directorate of Technical & Quality Manag
Department: System, Software & Technology Department
Division: Future Prep. & Strategic Studies Off.
Contract Officer: Anastasiia Bezulenko
Industrial Policy Measure: N/A – Not apply
Last Update Date: 27/01/2017
Update Reason: Tender issue

Missions requiring magnetically clean spacecraft seem to experience magnetic fields due to thermoelectric currents. At the interface of different electrically conductive materials and due to inhomogenities even inside single materials temperature differences cause differences in electron densities and therefore differences of electric potential. These potential differences drive electric currents, which are sources of magnetic field emissions. The phenomena are known to exist, and need to be studied from a multi-disciplinary perspective encompassing thermal, electric, magnetic and material aspects with special attention to possible mitigations.Understanding the physical roots of the perturbation and modeling the phenomena will improve the data exploitations for the actual and future magnetic missions.

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