Description
esc Aerospace is a leader in the field of space qualified on-board hardware and software in Europe and is one of the leading SMEs in innovative R&D projects with a focus on Space and Defence.
esc Aerospace is experienced in the areas of Avionics, Autonomous Robotics, C-UAS and GNC systems.
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- SpacePix Detector
Competences and capabilities
• On-board systems: Space Qualified flight software
• Avionics & Space Qualified On-board Computer (OBC, OBDH)
• Radiation monitors & sensor systems (lonizing radiation hardened detector payloads)
• Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) - QKDSat
• Applications: Secure & resilient communications leveraging SATCOM
• Test systems (EGSEs/SCOEs)
Major Space Projects & References
• TRITON-X – heavy platform satellites
• SpacePix® – radiation monitors
• Space Rider – affordable and routine access to space
• LVICE2 – study the yet unexplored dust clouds at Earth-Moon Lagrange points L4/L5 and the solar wind turbulence in the Lunar wake – esc Aerospace’s own Ambic mission to the Moon with 12U satellite
• ExoMars – SW verification and validation
• 5 generations of RPAS/UAS avionics – VTOL, microUAS, LMAMS
• Solar Orbiter – STIX Instrument On-board flight software
• SWARM ACCelerometer
• OBSW-RAC – Space qualified flight software: On-board software reference architecture consolidation. On-board software reuse in a systematic manner, following activities CorDeT and Domeng
• SENTINEL-4 – Performance Assessment Tool for the S4/UVN Instrument
• MTG – Meteosat Third Generation
• DOC – Demise Observation Capsule
• MetOp-SG – bootloaders
Space Related Equipment, Labs & Certificates
• esc Aerospace applies ECSS standards:
• ECSS-E-ST-40C Space Engineering – Software
• ECSS-E-ST-70C Ground systems and operations
• ECSS-M-ST-80C Risk management
• ECSS-Q-ST-20C Quality Assurance
• ECSS-Q-ST-80C SW Product Assurance
• laboratory and manufacturing assembly room / factory 4.0., IoT., equipped with oscilloscopes, DAQ stations, spectral and data analysers, signal generators and soldering stations.