Manipulation of non-cooperative targets and on orbit servicing

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Manipulation of non-cooperative targets and on orbit servicing Introduction to on-orbit servicing Matthias Burri briefly presents the On-Orbit-Servicing Group at the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) with a short video, and introduce the topic of rendezvous with and manipulation of a non-cooperative target. Agile management for On Orbit Servicing Technology Development Classical management does a great job for recurring tasks and stable conditions, but often fails when facing challenging and highly interconnected problems. Florian Rems presents how the change from classical to lean management improved the resilience of the team, the quality of research and development within the context of the On-Orbit-Servicing-Group and in the Rendezvous, Inspection, Capturing And Detumbling by Orbital Servicing (RICADOS) Project team. (Rems, 2020; H. Benninghoff, 2018) Mars Sample Return test campaign NASA and ESA signed a letter of intent in April 2018 to pursue a Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. The goal is to return soil samples from Mars to Earth until 2030 for detailed analysis in sophisticated laboratories far too heavy to transport to Mars. ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) will catch the orbiting sample container (OS) in low Martian orbit. Sealed in a biocontainment system, the sample will travel back to Earth with ERO and land in the United States. Matthias Burri presents how a GNC demonstration system developed by Airbus to fly on the Earth Return Orbiter was tested on the European Proximity Simulator (EPOS). (Burri, et al.) SCOSA: Scalable On-Board Computer Future onboard computing applications require significantly greater computing performance than is currently provided by standard space qualified onboard computers. Therefore, the German Aerospace Center is developing the Scalable On-board Computing for Space Avionics (ScOSA) (Kurt Schwenk, 2018). Eicke Risse presents the ScOSA onboard computing platform designed for high performance, reliability and scalability in order to allow missions with more computational autonomy.