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| | SMEs reach outstanding results in ESA Programmes The innovative drive of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), their flexibility and their effectiveness make them valuable partners for all space projects.
European and Canadian SMEs have often been the source of leading-edge technological solutions leading to outstanding in results in ESA space programmes. |
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|  | | | Plastics for use in spaceborne optical sensors
Conducted by the German firm, ZARM Technik AG, this activity has explored the feasibility of plastics for use in space borne optical sensors.
Moreover, the highly satisfactory results obtained from the project are not merely confined to optical sensors - but are applicable to other structural elements found in spacecraft.
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| | | | Green Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) monopropellant with advanced catalytic beds
The project has focussed on developing & testing new catalytic beds integrated into a miniature thruster - comparable to the size of a euro-cent coin.
The developments, carried out by a small consortium led by Austrian SME, Aerospace Technology GmbH, have succeeded in convincingly demonstrating desired levels of improved thruster performance using advanced catalytic beds, with Hydrogen Peroxide (H202) as the low-toxicity, "green" propellant.
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| | ESA SME Projects Compendium of ESA-funded Innovations by SMEs, 1998 to date Technology Successes Volume 1 (pdf 2MB)Volume 2 (pdf 0.7MB) On-line selection of SME achievements SpaceWire Remote Terminal Controller (SpW RTC) development suiteEngineering tool for qualification of optical coatingsLow-power Hall effect propulsion systemSpectrometry & robotics for space explorationWireless optical coms using XMM X-ray technologyPiezo actuators enable hi-res dust analysisS/w to assess RAMS in mission-critical systemsµwave and digital technology in satcomsAntenna design, analysis & measurement techniquesSAR applications & services for remote sensing
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