Scientists from Atos engage in HERA mission to preserve the planet from asteroid collision
Bucharest, Romania and Paris, France – December two, 2020,
Atos these days announces that a team of electronic transformation professionals from Atos Romania are using portion in HERA, the to start with planetary protection mission of the European House Agency (ESA) in collaboration with NASA, which aims to determine how asteroids can be deflected so that they do not hit Earth.
HERA is unprecedented in its scientific and technical objectives and will carry the to start with creating blocks of a planetary defense capability. It aims to determine irrespective of whether the maneuver of diverting a perilous asteroid from its collision study course with Earth is the appropriate technique to deploy to prevent a serious risk and will start a deflection take a look at to discover out.
Through the HERA mission, a team of scientists and professionals from Atos in Romania will take a look at the data manipulation units on board of the space probe for the duration of the assembly procedures and integration and verification methods. They will also assist flight software package development, the loading and execution monitoring interfaces, as well as the diagnostic interfaces for the flight processor. The multi-disciplinary team incorporates Atos professionals in style and design, development, validation and integration of software package and components alternatives, in particular in the parts of radio frequencies and ability circuits.
“The HERA mission is a significant move in defending our planet, and Romania will add decisively to the international protection energy. This mission represents an critical development in creating the potential of the countrywide market to take portion in deep-space missions. Via this expedition to a binary technique of asteroids, as well as the experimental route deviation of just one of them and the watchful observation of the result, space exploration is achieving a new milestone in human heritage“, said Marius-Ioan Piso, President of the Romanian House Agency (ROSA).
“The Atos team from Brașov has been doing the job for numerous years jointly with ESA to carry out numerous space missions and add to the evolution of mission setting up and command units. Nevertheless, this is the to start with time we are using portion in a “Planetary Defense” mission which brings us new technical difficulties, but also the gratification that we can do our portion to preserve the planet in addition to our endeavours in digitization and decarbonization. We are well mindful that there is no World B“, said Günther Lackner, VP, GM & Worldwide Head of BU House & Avionics at Atos.
Atos Romania is a essential competency middle for Atos House international alternatives, a reliable companion in the journey to House. Atos in Romania has intensive encounter in the fields of Electric powered Floor Support Machines (EGSE), Mission Management Programs (MCS), Floor Stations (GS) and Federated Id Management (FIM). EGSE activities carried out by Atos in Romania consist of the validation of radio-frequency, satellite communications parts, verification of space shuttle devices and data flows, simulation of communications with floor stations, verification and electrical units (solar panels, batteries, and so on.), central coordination units for verification and command devices.
Experts from Atos in Romania have previously contributed to numerous other important ESA & non-ESA missions, this kind of as Euclid, Juice, Proba-three, MetOpSG, Plato, Sentinel five & 6 and OneWeb.
Much more info about Atos’ alternatives for space & avionics : https://atos.net/en/alternatives/aerospace-protection-electronics
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Much more info on HERA
The HERA mission is portion of the international AIDA (Asteroid Effects & Deflection Assessment) system, developed in collaboration with NASA, dependable for conducting the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Take a look at) space take a look at.
There are two methods in the mission:
- In July next 12 months the DART satellite will be launched and directed to hit the Didymoon asteroid (165m diameter), a all-natural satellite of the larger sized asteroid Didymos (775m diameter)which represents a probable hazard to Earth. Industry experts estimate that DART will hit the asteroid in September 2022.
- In October 2024, three HERA satellites will be launched to examine the “crime scene”. They ought to get there around Didymoon in January 2027 to gather and examine critical data which will support scientists improved recognize the composition and framework of asteroids and to establish new systems and solutions to deviate them.
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