Attitude Determination and Control System Development for Nanosats

• Country: Netherlands
• Summary: Attitude Determination and Control System Development for Nanosats
• NLT Ref No: 93484763
• Deadline: 22 Jan 2024
• Financier: Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER)
• Purchaser Ownership: Government
• Tender Value: Refer Document
• Notice Type: Tender
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• Description:
• Tenders are invited for Attitude Determination and Control System Development for Nanosats The objective of this activity is to develop an attitude determination and control system (ADCS modular and reliable product (processor, sensors, actuators, and software) for nanosat platforms, making use of European state-of-the-art ADCS units, automation of code generation (for on-board software and ground models) and avionics hardware for nanosat formfactor.Description: The European nanosat market is expanding, together with the variety ofmission applications. Nanosats are being adopted for operational missions in several domains, a performant and reliable configurable ADCS module is required to be cost and schedule competitive. One trend is to aim to ambitious missions in terms of ADCS performance, robustness, and reliability. The ADCS development process, tailored to nanosat economy, and solid and efficient validation and verification (VV),are key success factor for producing ADCS system at the quality level expected for the coming nanosat missions. Improvement of the Europeannanosat ADCS system is needed at definition and process level, together with taking benefit of automation of code generation or other cost-efficient production techniques. This proposedactivity aims to develop an ADCS modular/reliable system providing a European high-quality subsystem, making use of the mostadequate state-of-the-art ADCS hardware units, as well as avionics hardware, and benefiting from the automation of code generation and test generation for the ADCS software production and the development ofground support models for ADCS VV.The activity shall proceed to the ADCS development up to the verification of an engineering model. The first part of the activity shall be dedicated to establishing the ADCS specification, up to the flow down at ADCS unit and verification level. MBSE (model-based system engineering) for this step shall be considered. Then ADCS hardware selection shall be managed,taking into consideration performance, robustness, flightheritage and leading to complementary verification as needed, to ensure quality level for the overall system. The ADCS functional design shall be based on amodular functional architecture, with options on the mode/submode functionalities to allow easy customisation of the subsystem for each usermission (Earth orbits).The ADCS software architecture together with processing solution shall implement the modular functional architecture of the ADCS. ADCS VVshall be ensured in an Agile Continuum of testing on simulator, numerical facility and engineering model, including the ADCS hardware models.Specific care shall be ensured in the development/(re-)use of the groundtesting simulators and facilities (environment and dynamic models, interfaces, harness, synchronisation, etc.).Thetasks foreseen in the frame of this activity are the following: ADCS system (and verification means) specification.ADCS architecture design and preliminary justification includinghardware selection. ADCS detailed design and validation. ADCS engineering model integration and testing. ADCS design and compliance consolidation.NOTE: This activity is currently in the GSTP Work Plan but will only be implemented after confirmation of financial support from Delegations. The final list of participating states will be known at tender issue.Read more
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