Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002iaf..confe.646k&link_type=abstract
IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,
Physics
Scientific paper
SpaceMail is a new and active ESA project to motivate young minds in space engineering. SpaceMail employs attractive eye-catchers as technology demonstration: a 35 km tether deployment in LEO will accurately deliver An Inflatable Re-entry capsule (AIR) on European soil. These eye-catchers will be made possible because of a design, driven at the earliest stage by inherent safety. Europe-wide and multi-disciplinary university involvement produces a variety of innovative inflatable capsule designs. These designs are merged into a final capsule design that will be manufactured in the next phase (2003) at European universities. This Young Engineers' Satellite project will be incorporated in the curricula of those universities. An autonomous tether deployer system is manufactured and tested in a student-built real-time closed-loop tether deployment rig, demonstrating maturity of the tether concept. Activities have started in March 2002, the budget has been secured for all phases of the project and launch of the satellite is foreseen on a Russian carrier in 2004. Universities and students are still invited to join the project.
Kruijff Michiel
van der Heide Erik Jan
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