Sumários

ESA Project (I)

21 Novembro 2023, 09:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

- Explanation of the ESA project sessions organisation
- Introduction to ESA OSIP platform and to space projects.
- Introduction to the GSTP program
- Formation of groups and selection of work topics for each group.
- Definition of Action Items for each group for next class.

Attitude Determination and Control Systems (I)

21 Novembro 2023, 08:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

:: What is an Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS)
- What is attitude?
- Why determine and control?
- Requirements and constraints
- Control loop

Introduction to Space Systems Engineering (III)

16 Novembro 2023, 11:30 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

:: The space environment and its effects on the mission design (cont)
- Challenges for mechanical engineering
- Challenges for electronic engineering
- Challenges for thermal engineering
- Challenges for vacuum engineering


- Space engineering standards: ECSS 

Analysis of the orbital object population (part II)

14 Novembro 2023, 09:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

: Analysis of the full population of tracked orbital objects
- Ingesting a file with TLEs for many objects
- Orbit integration and exception handling
- Computation of cartesian positions
- 3D visualisation of the orbital population
- Export computations to CSV file for analysis with other software


:: Multi-panel exploration of orbits and other attributes with TOPCAT
- TOPCAT tutorial 
- Multi-dimensional analysis of orbital objects using multiple panels with linked views
- Identification of families of orbital objects

Introduction to Space Systems Engineering (II)

14 Novembro 2023, 08:00 • André Maria da Silva Dias Moitinho de Almeida

:: The space environment
- Overview

:: Effects on mission design
- Radiation and thermal shielding

- Cleaning
- Effects of weightlessness
- Other