Nieder Olm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Responsible for Mission Operation Automation and Testing for ESA's OPS-SAT mission. (https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/OPS-SAT) Automation will be implemented with the Mission Automation System (MATIS) using the procedure programming language PLUTO. Support of System Validation Tests (SVT) and preparation for Quality Assurance Review (QAR)
1st Prize. Winning Team of international Red Eagle Competition. Competition: Complete Mission and Mechanical Design, Propulsive Systems, Shielding, Orbit Analysis, Entry plus Landing Phases and Risk-Analysis. Mission: Landing of 10 Metric Tons of Payload on Martian Surface
Winning team of prizes for "Best Engineering Solution" and "Best Presentation" for our proposed mission "Calathus". Furthermore, our mission was selected for further investigations at ESA's Training and Learning Centre in ESA Redu Centre in Belgium. The offered lectures will cover existing and planned space missions, space mission design, and the principles of instrumentation for the required observations, including in-situ measurements. The lectures will provide the students with the scientific and technical background needed for defining and elaborating innovative space missions. Four student teams will be set up to define the scientific objectives of a space mission and a preliminary end-to-end mission design including the spacecraft, scientific instruments, mission, and science operations capable of meeting the stated objectives.
Tasks: Development of new autonomous Antenna Tracking System. Research in autonomous flight and flight computers for 100km altitude “SpacePlane” prototype. Execution and support of flight tests with several prototypes and test planes. Setup, upgrade and maintenance of prototypes. The Company: Development of a fully reusable suborbital spaceplane capable of reaching an altitude of 100 km. Application include experiments space tourism as well as conducting experiments under micro-gravity. CEO Shuji Ogawa Shuji Ogawa founded PD Aerospace in 2007.