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Xignum Aerospace

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Category: Project data management solutions

What is Xignum?

Xignum is a powerful and highly configurable tool to enable or support all your company processes and to manage all your company and project data in a single user interface. Use Xignum to define, retrieve, edit and interlink your data and processes with a single way of working. Trace the history of change. And achieve high levels of quality at low cost and low impact to your team.

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Albatros (2005)

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Category: Project data management solutions

ALBATRos is a Product Data Management tool with project-wide scope and advanced interactive features, specifically tailored to space projects, supporting System Engineering and Quality Assurance (QA) from the product’s requirement definition phase to the Assembly, Integration and Verification (AIV).

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YES2 / Fotino (2007)

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Category: Space experiments and small satellites

10 years after YES, the successor, the Young Engineers' Satellite 2 (YES2) was flown. The YES2 was a 36 kg student-built tether satellite part of ESA's Foton-M3 microgravity mission. The YES2 satellite employed a 32 km long tether to deorbit a small re-entry capsule "Fotino."

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T-REX (2010)

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Category: Space experiments and small satellites

T-Rex was developed by an international team led by the Kanagawa Institute of Technology/Nihon University to test a new type of electrodynamic tether (EDT) that may lead to a generation of propellantless propulsion systems for LEO spacecraft.

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