Workshop on European Space Information Technology in the 21st Century Future Mission Needs for Infor

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Workshop on European Space Information
Technology in the 21st CenturyFuture Mission
Needs for Information TechnologyScience
Missions

• 27 - 28 September 2000, ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany
• Giorgio Bagnasco, ESA D/SCI
• Future Project Studies Technology Office

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ESA D/SCI Program Horizon 2000
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The Mercury Planetary Orbiter
Main Mission Objective - Remote Sensing -
Radio Science Mass 360 kg Power 420W Data Rate
up to 350 kbits / sec Lifetime gt 1
year Candidate Payload Suite - Visible
Cameras - IR,UV, X, ?, Neutron Spectrometers -
Laser Altimeter
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The Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter
Main Mission Objective - Fields Particles
Science Mass 160 kg Power 185 W Data Rate up
to 40 kbits / sec Lifetime gt 1 year Candidate
Payload Suite - Magnetometer - Ion
Spectrometer - Electron Analyser - Cold Plasma
Analyser - Energetic Plasma Detector - Visible
Camera
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The Mercury Surface Element
Mission Objective - Surface Chemical /
Physical Properties Mass 44 kg Energy 1700 W
h Data Rate up to 9 kbits / sec Lifetime gt 1
week Candidate Payload Suite - Cameras -
Seismometer - Magnetometer - Alpha X-ray
spectrometer - Subsurface detectors - Mole -
Micro-rover
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GAIA
Mission Objective - Global Astrometry - Radial
Velocity Spectrometry - Photometry Mass 3140
kg Power 2570 W Data rate8 Mbit / sec (for 8
hr/day) Lifetime 5 year Orbit L2 Candidate
Payload - 2 identical SiC telescopes for
astrometry - 1 telescope for spectrometry
photometry
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IRSI-Darwin
Mission Objective - Detection of Earth-like
planets Mass ?3500 kg Power ? 1650 WData Rate ?
20 kbits / sec Operating wavelength 5-18 ?m
Orbit L2 point Lifetime 5 years
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Objective Gravitational wave detection Mass 3
x 400 kg Power 1300 W Baseline 5 x 106 km Orbit
60 deg inclined, Sun orbit at 1AU Data Rate 7
kbits/ sec Lifetime 2 years
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XEUS
Mission Objective - Cosmology by X-ray
Spectroscopy Mass (6000 25000) kg Power
(12000 1000) W Orbit Low Earth Orbit (600
km) Data Rate 100 kbit / sec Lifetime gt 25 years
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Review of the D/SCI Technology Development
Activities

• Overall Objectives Benefits
• Harmonic D/SCI Technology Programme
• Development of technologies for D/SCI Future
  Missions within schedule and budget
• Overview of all the schedules for Technology
  Activities and related costs
• Provision of rationale to the "External World" of
  D/SCI plans and priorities
• Possibility to improve synergy with other
  Directorates
• Risk Reduction for D/SCI Future Missions

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D/SCI Technology Development Activities
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CS 5 Nominal Schedule
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D/SCI Technology Development Activities