ESA Open Invitation To Tender AO8421
Open Date: 10/09/2015
Closing Date: 22/10/2015

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 15.155.16
Prog. Ref.: EOEP-4 EO Prep. Acti;NMS – Poland
Budget Ref.: E/0092-E4 – EOEP-4 EO Prep. Acti;E/0907-06 – NMS – Poland
Special Prov.: PL
Tender Type: C
Price Range: > 500 KEURO
Establishment: ESTEC
Directorate: Directorate of EO Programmes
Department: Science, Appl & Future Technologies Dept
Division: Future Missions Division
Contract Officer: Wesolowski, Szymon
Last Update Date: 10/09/2015
Update Reason: Tender issue

Argentina, through the Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), is developing an L-band SAR mission with a constellation of two LEO spacecraft in a Sun-synchronous dusk-dawn orbit. The planned launcher, a Falcon-9, has an excess capacity and CONAE has offered to ESA the possibility to use this excess of capacity. In this context, ESA proposed a bistatic extension of SAOCOM’s SAR sensing by means of a receive-only Companion Satellite (provisionally called SAOCOM-CS) flying in formation with SAOCOM, which would act as an illuminator. The present activity addresses the development of Engineering Qualification Models of the Deployment Mechanism(DEM) and the Hold-Down and Release Mechansims (HRMs) used keep the deployable L-band antenna panels in stowed configuration and todeploy them once in flight. The present activity also address the qualification of the DEM and HRM’s for the SAOCOM-CS environment.

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