Astronomy: Space technology landing in Hanover at largest trade fair

Hi My Friends: AL VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., Propelling the Ariane 5 rocket into space, the Vulcain engine truly reflects Europe’s impressive aerospace achievements. The giant engine will flag ‘ESA Space Apps’ at this year’s Hannover Messe trade fair showcasing impressive space technology spin-offs and their terrestrial potential.

The Vulcain engine of the Ariane 5 launcher during a test run at the German Space Agency DLR Credits: DLR
Propelling the Ariane 5 rocket into space, the Vulcain engine truly reflects Europe’s impressive aerospace achievements. The giant engine will flag ‘ESA Space Apps’ at this year’s Hannover Messe trade fair showcasing impressive space technology spin-offs and their terrestrial potential. Organised by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office and German MST Aerospace, the ESA Space Apps stand will illustrate how striking product developments and innovative advances are possible in a variety of fields through the transfer of ready available space technologies.

ESA Space Apps stand at Hannover Messe 2011 Credits: Hannover Messe

On the opening day – 23 April – the winner of this year’s ESA Space Spin-off Award will be announced. It goes to individuals or an organisation that have carried out a space technology transfer of extraordinary success with significant economic impact and remarkable results in a non-space sector.

ESA Space Apps visitors can discuss with MST and ESA representatives how space technologies can be employed in their fields.

Spin-offs on display by companies

ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office has invited several industrial partners to present their products and services, all based on space spin-offs.

Trude, the world´s largest tunnel boring machines (TBMs) with a diameter of 14.2m, excavated the 4th pipe Elbe Tunnel in Hamburg, Germany. It took two years and five months to drill the 2,561 metres underground tunnel.
The German tunnelling company, Herrenknecht AG, responsible for this achievement is now applying a new technique with space origin in order to be able to drill tunnels even better. The German company Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH has produced a new transmitter for Herrenknecht AG based upon their know-how gained from their work for ESA on the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft.
A number of these transmitters are now mounted on a TBM and provides a look into the ground in front of the TDB. Every second the transmitters send sound waves into the ground, microphones receive the reflecting signals which are data processed and visualizes important geologic changes up to 40 m in front of the rotary shear blade.

Credits: Herrenknecht AG.

From the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission, Astro- and Feinwerktechnik Adlershof derived a technology for seismic soft-ground probing to predict geological changes in front of the rotary shear blades of underground drilling machines. This is now used by the machine manufacturer Herrenknecht.

Thermal silicon-carbide protection shield technologies developed by IABG for the Hermes spaceplane were adapted for high-performance carbon ceramic brake discs by Brembo SGL Carbon Ceramic Brakes.

Based on spacecraft equipment, Tecnalia Research and Innovation is developing a telecare fall-detector device and an intelligent assistance system for mountaineers and search and rescue teams.

The German start-up company PiMON develops a fiber optic based monitoring technology for pipelines. Space expertise from very similar technologies used in structural elements in the aerospace industry, e.g. in the Ariane launch system or in satellites to monitor the integrity of cryogenic propellant tanks, have been used in the development by PiMON.
The publication presents a selection of the latest space technology transfers assisted by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office.

Credits: ESA
The space expertise of PiMON has lead to the development of novel fibre optics-based sensor monitoring systems for oil and gas pipelines. Vibration and other changes along the lines – such as leaks or illegal tapping – are immediately detected and reported to service personnel.

Special ball-bearing cages developed for space missions like the BepiColombo Mercury probe are now offered by AAC for terrestrial applications.

Fire Suppression Inside is spinning off a technology from ESA’s Proba-2 satellite to suppress overheating and fire in electrical equipment like servers, switches, power distribution units and backup generators.

‘mobile life‘ is developing GPS/Galileo-based high accuracy positioning monitoring systems with wireless telemetric sensors for easy location and monitoring of people, animals and freight.
“Europe’s space programmes are important economic drivers, also when leading-edge space technology is transferred to non-space systems and sectors,” explains Werner Dupont of MST Aerospace.

MST is co-organiser of the ESA Space Apps stand and the manager of ESA’s Technology Transfer Broker Network.

“Space technologies enable in many cases everyday products in sectors like automotive, health and household without users and consumers being aware of it.”

At the Hannover Messe, ESA Space Apps is located at stand D56 in hall 2, 23–27 April.

ESA is also present with its ESA Career Info stand at Hall 6, J24/40.
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Astronomía: La nave 'inteligente' europea, en camino hacia la Estación Espacial

Hola amigos: AL VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., El ATV de la ESA Edoardo Amaldi ha despegado hoy del Puerto Espacial Europeo en Kourou, en la Guayana Francesa, con destino a la Estación Espacial Internacional. El lanzamiento se ha producido a las 04:34 GMT (05:34 CET, 01:34 hora local), a bordo de un lanzador Ariane 5 operado por Arianespace.

On Friday 23 March 2012, Ariane 5 VA205 with the third Automated Transfer Vehicle Edoardo Amaldi lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2012

PR 9 2012 - El ATV de la ESA Edoardo Amaldi ha despegado hoy del Puerto Espacial Europeo en Kourou, en la Guayana Francesa, con destino a la Estación Espacial Internacional. El lanzamiento se ha producido a las 04:34 GMT (05:34 CET, 01:34 hora local), a bordo de un lanzador Ariane 5 operado por Arianespace. El Vehículo Automático de Transferencia, la nave más compleja jamás producida en Europa, lleva a la estación orbital suministros y equipamiento indispensables. También proporcionará impulso a la Estación Espacial durante los alrededor de cinco meses que permanecerá acoplada a ella, elevándola en su órbita. El ATV Edoardo Amaldi es la tercera de una serie de cinco naves de carga desarrolladas en Europa, dentro de sus compromisos relativos a los costes de explotación de la Estación.
Este vehículo es el primero que se prepara y lanza dentro del objetivo establecido de un ATV por año.

“La prestación de un servicio anual a la Estación por parte de Europa se ha convertido en una realidad gracias a la dedicación, la competencia y la interacción de nuestra industria espacial, las agencias nacionales y la ESA”, ha dicho Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General de la ESA.
A final view of Automated Transfer Vehicle Edoardo Amaldi before it was installed on the Ariane rocket.
ESA’s third automated space freighter, Edoardo Amaldi, is carrying about two tonnes of dry cargo, 285 kg of water and more than three tonnes of propellants to the International Space Station.

Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG
“El ATV-3 demuestra la capacidad de Europa de proporcionar de forma regular misiones de altas prestaciones que dan apoyo a las operaciones de la tripulación, en coordinación con nuestros socios internacionales”.
El ATV cuenta con sistemas de navegación de alta precisión, software de vuelo redundante y un sistema autónomo de monitorización y para detectar colisiones con fuentes de alimentación eléctrica, sistemas de control y propulsores independientes.
“Estamos orgullosos de que la ESA aporte el vehículo más sofisticado de los que dan servicio a la Estación Espacial”, declaró Thomas Reiter, Director de Vuelos Tripulados y Operaciones de la ESA.

Ariane 5 and ATV Edoardo Amaldi on the launch pad, 21 March 2012, in Kourou, French Guiana.
Weighing in at 19 714 kg, including 6596 kg of fuel, air, oxygen, scientific equipment, spare parts and crew supplies, ATV-3 is the heaviest payload ever lofted by Ariane 5. Including the launcher itself, 777 tonnes rose up from the pad.

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2012
“Las capacidades adquiridas por la ESA y la industria europea en el contexto del programa del ATV nos permiten ahora seguir desarrollando esta tecnología. Esto nos abre un amplio rango de oportunidades para contribuir a las futuras misiones de exploración espacial”.
El lanzador, con su carga útil de 20 toneladas, comenzó su vuelo sobre el Atlántico hacia las Azores y Europa.
Un encendido inicial de ocho minutos de la etapa superior del lanzador Ariane situó al ATV-3 en una órbita baja, inclinada 51,6 grados sobre el Ecuador.
42 minutos después la etapa superior se encendió de nuevo para alcanzar una altitud de 260 km. Unos 64 minutos tras el despegue, la nave de carga se separó de la etapa superior del Ariane.
25 minutos después el ATV-3 comenzó a desplegar sus cuatro paneles solares; el fin de esta operación, unos minutos más tarde, marcó el fin de la fase de lanzamiento.
Ariane 5 and ATV Edoardo Amaldi on the launch pad, 21 March 2012, in Kourou, French Guiana.
Weighing in at 19 714 kg, including 6596 kg of fuel, air, oxygen, scientific equipment, spare parts and crew supplies, ATV-3 is the heaviest payload ever lofted by Ariane 5. Including the launcher itself, 777 tonnes rose up off the pad.

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2012
Edoardo Amaldi está ahora llevando a cabo una serie de maniobras previas a la llegada a la Estación Espacial, prevista para el 28 de marzo a las 22:34 GMT (00:34 CEST). El atraque con el módulo ruso Zvezda será controlado automáticamente por el propio ATV.
Durante la misión la nave será monitorizada desde el Centro de Control del ATV (ATV-CC), en colaboración con los centros de control de la Estación Espacial Internacional en Moscú y Houston (EEUU). El ATV-CC está en Toulouse (Francia), en las instalaciones de la agencia espacial francesa, CNES.

Para más información sobre el ATV,

visitar la web http://www.esa.int/ATV
Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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