Projects & Services - Delta-Utec IAS

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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."

Applicability of Tether Deployment Simulation and Tests based on YES2 Flight Data

A typical landing area from MTBSim tether/re-entry Monte Carlo simulations

This project involved comparison of tether deployment data from the second Young Engineers’ Satellite (YES2) experiment to advanced simulator and ground test results, in order to draw more general conclusions about the predictive value of ground-based preparation for space tether missions.

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Yes1 In 1997, the European Space Agency launched its first true skunkworks satellite, developed by Delta-Utec: the Young Engineers' Satellite (YES), of about 200 kg, sent into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) with a 35 km double-strand tether, and planning to deorbit a probe at near-interplanetary speed by swinging deployment of the tether system. It successfully performed a number of technology demonstration experiments, such as a commercial computer (PC104) and CCD camera payload, student-developed sunsensors, radiation experiments (scintillating fibers, RADFET) and the first GPS operational beyond the GPS constellation. A space computer (JORIS!) with RISC processor and FPGA was also developed, qualified and flown. The tether experiment was prepared in simulation and hardware, tested extensively in on-ground facilities and launched, however, due to the unfavorable orbit that was reached, the tether experiment could not be safely performed and it was cancelled.

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Delta-Utec IAS can help your hardware development company through this most challenging phase from start-up to scale-up, while you are not yet churning out products and reaping revenues. We help you raise your hardware innovation idea from TRL2 towards TRL8, get angels on-board with an attainable product roadmap and ready your company for Series A funding. We do this with tailored and immersive support packages, typically of two months duration, at a pre-agreed fixed pricing:

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We can additionally provide proposal review and grant writing support, with a track record in programs such as:

EU/EC

EIC Pathfinder, Transition & Accelerator
Interreg (see picture)
Innovation Fund

RVO (NL)

Just Transition Fund (JTF)
SSEB
MIT
WBSO

European Space Agency (ESA)

Business Applications
NAVISP
BIC

NATO

DIANA Accelerator (see picture)

Images: results from the Interreg NWE "MegaAWE" project (photo credit Mozaero, Kitepower), including a 150-kW fixed-wing airborne wind energy system (12m wing span, fully automated, EASA approved), and an airborne wind energy test site in County Mayo, Ireland. The project was initiated by Dr. Michiel Kruijff for Ampyx Power (2021). Delta-Utec supported the grant application for continued flight operations (DEM-AWE), the innovation & scaling roadmap of Kitepower and MegaAWE's technical deliverables preparation (including preparation for a 1-MW system development program, assessment of system scalability to 10 MW and levelized cost of energy potential).

YES2 / Fotino (2007)

Xignum Aerospace

T-REX (2010)

Albatros (2005)

SSATT / ADTE star sensor algorithms and test environment

ETBSim / MTBSim space tether mission simulator

Applicability of Tether Deployment Simulation and Tests based on YES2 Flight Data

YES1 / TEAMSAT (1997)

Product & company maturation support

Grant writing support & review

YES2 Tether and Re-entry Capsule Mission