The Space Rider Programme: End user's needs and payload applications survey as driver for mission and system definition

Fedele, Alberto; Guidotti, Giuseppe; Rufolo, Giuseppe C.; Malucchi, Giovanni; Denaro, A.; Massobrio, Federico; Dussy, Stephane; Mancuso, Salvatore; Tumino, Giorgio

doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2018.08.042

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“…Not to mention the benefits the research will bring to the space biomedical community preparing for lunar exploration and private spaceflight. To that end, the novel spacecraft developed for these purposes ([14]- [16], [18], [20]) are hoped to feature commercial payload slots available on them, possibly using CubeSat units as an international standard as is already done for commercial experiment racks on the ISS. Further promoting the credibility, commercialisation and improved development of CubeSat biomedical payloads in a positive feedback loop for the sector.…”

Section: Further Discussion and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Excellent reviews of historical and future biomedical CubeSat missions can be found in [17], [25], [26], [28], [29], [51]- [53]. Although given the standard features of mission payloads discussed in this report (namely miniaturised and autonomous ones, capable of in-situ analysis), many other relevant material can be found and dissected from non-CubeSat missions such as Eu:CROPIS, the ShiJian, Tianzhou and Bion spacecraft, and the future Space Rider programme [16], [18].…”

Section: Concluding Table Of Pros and Consmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Biomedical payloads: A maturing application for CubeSats

Robson

Cappelletti

2022

Acta Astronautica

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Section: Further Discussion and Conclusionmentioning

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Section: Concluding Table Of Pros and Consmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomedical payloads: A maturing application for CubeSats

Robson

Cappelletti

2022

Acta Astronautica

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“…It might be argued that, especially for institutionally funded basic research experiments, one needs, as part of the qualification process, to demonstrate how a particular experiment responds to launch loads (static, dynamic, and combined) and how this relates to the initiation of the experiment while in microgravity. This is especially true for short-duration microgravity experiments that make use of platforms such as parabolic aircraft 45 , drop towers 46 or sounding rockets but also the more recent commercial suborbital platforms such as the Blue Origin New Shepard 47 , future Virgin Galactic White Knight 48 , Dream Chaser from Sierra Nevada Company 49 or the upcoming Space Rider from the European Space Agency 50 . It is even more alarming since our data showed that launch effects are visible directly after lift off until even 4 days post exposure.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Molecular impact of launch related dynamic vibrations and static hypergravity in planarians

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Although many examples of simulated and real microgravity demonstrating their profound effect on biological systems are described in literature, few reports deal with hypergravity and vibration effects, the levels of which are severely increased during the launch preceding the desired microgravity period. Here, we used planarians, flatworms that can regenerate any body part in a few days. Planarians are an ideal model to study the impact of launch-related hypergravity and vibration during a regenerative process in a “whole animal” context. Therefore, planarians were subjected to 8.5 minutes of 4 g hypergravity (i.e. a human-rated launch level) in the Large Diameter Centrifuge (LDC) and/or to vibrations (20–2000 Hz, 11.3 Grms) simulating the conditions of a standard rocket launch. The transcriptional levels of genes (erg-1, runt-1, fos, jnk, and yki) related with the early stress response were quantified through qPCR. The results show that early response genes are severely deregulated after static and dynamic loads but more so after a combined exposure of dynamic (vibration) and static (hypergravity) loads, more closely simulating real launch exposure profiles. Importantly, at least four days after the exposure, the transcriptional levels of those genes are still deregulated. Our results highlight the deep impact that short exposures to hypergravity and vibration have in organisms, and thus the implications that space flight launch could have. These phenomena should be taken into account when planning for well-controlled microgravity studies.

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“…Aiming at the development of more affordable, convenient and reliable access to space, the reusable launch vehicles (RLVs) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9], such as space rider [10] and Skylon [11,12] have become a hot spot and received sustained attention during the last few decades. The RLVs will dramatically reduce the operational cost of space missions because they can be used repeatedly by quick recovering and reusing after each space mission.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Control Design for the Autonomous Horizontal Takeoff Phase of the Reusable Launch Vehicles

Liu

Fan³

et al. 2020

IEEE Access

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The control system design for the reusable launch vehicles (RLVs), especially in the autonomous horizontal takeoff phase, is a highly challenging task. Significant issues arise due to the high nonlinearity, large uncertainties of aerodynamic coefficients as well as strong coupling among axes of the airframe. This paper studies autonomous takeoff control problem of the RLVs by the means of trajectory linearization control (TLC) and model predictive control (MPC) theory. The six degree of freedom dynamic model is firstly established, and the flight strategy of takeoff and climb stage is provided through the characteristic analysis of RLVs. Furthermore, the guidance law for the climbing phase is proposed via the TLC method against the high nonlinearity, and a speed based gain-schedule strategy is given under the consideration of both aerodynamic force and friction force. In order to eliminate the ground effect interference, an improved model predictive control approach is presented by introducing the online parameter estimation of the ground effect interaction coefficient, and a coupled model predictive controller is designed by introducing the feedback of sideslip angle into the roll control channel to eliminate the coupling effect. Finally, the performance of the design method for autonomous takeoff control of RLVs is demonstrated through the comparison simulation analysis.

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The Space Rider Programme: End user's needs and payload applications survey as driver for mission and system definition

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Biomedical payloads: A maturing application for CubeSats

Biomedical payloads: A maturing application for CubeSats

Molecular impact of launch related dynamic vibrations and static hypergravity in planarians

Control Design for the Autonomous Horizontal Takeoff Phase of the Reusable Launch Vehicles

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