{"id":11903,"date":"2019-09-05T13:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/best-of-space.de\/?p=11903"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:14:53","slug":"europes-euclid-mission-taking-a-giant-leap-forward-engl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/2019\/09\/05\/europes-euclid-mission-taking-a-giant-leap-forward-engl\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u00b4s Euclid-Mission Taking a Giant Leap Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>HPS hands over Euclid\u00b4s Flight Model of Antenna Reflector Assembly (ARA) to TAS-I in Rome<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Euclid, ESA\u00b4s ambitious mission to map geometry and development of the Dark Universe over the past 10 billion years from 2022 on has taken a big step forward: HPS delivered the ARA-flight model hardware to ESA\u00b4s prime TAS in Rome and the communication subsystem prime TAS in Madrid&nbsp;after all tests (TVT, Bake-out, modal survey, optical check and main reflector contour, grounding and MLI\/SLI installation) had been concluded successfully and on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Euclid\u00b4s ARA (Antenna Reflector Assembly) is one of the mission\u00b4s\nhardware keys, since it is responsible for transmitting all the scientific\ndata, which will provide an unprecedented insight into the origin of the\nUniverse. Extremely lightweight and stable materials have been employed in the\njust 4.5 kg reflector assembly&nbsp;to assure the demanding strength and\nperformance requirements from the launch phase until the operations at the\nsecond Lagrangian point L2, located at 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.\nThe&nbsp;high end&nbsp;precision in the micrometer range has been achieved in\nthe single parts positioning during the alignment activities, allowing optimal\nperformances in the signal transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Consortium, led by HPS GmbH (Munich based German\nSME)&nbsp;has&nbsp;successfully implemented&nbsp;the involvement of several\ncountries across Europe. HPS would like to thank its partners for the\noutstanding work performed together: Invent GmbH in Germany for composite\ntechnology, SERENUM a.s. in Czech Republic for metal parts, AAC GmbH for\nenvironmental testing, FHP Ltd. in Portugal for Multi Layer Insulation\ntechnology and ONERA in France for radio-frequency characterisation testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already back in 2017, HPS had successfully delivered a\nfirst&nbsp;Structural-Thermal Model (STM) of the Euclid ARA as well as an\nEngineering Qualification Model (EQM) in 2018 for testing and qualification\npurposes at satellite level. The delivery of the Flight Model now took place\nend of August 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The customer chain explicitly &#8220;appreciates the effort done by HPS to fulfill the schedule dates in this complex period of the summer break and congratulates to all the good results obtained&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HPS GmbH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Point of contact:&nbsp; Dr. Ernst Pfeiffer, CEO<br>E-Mail:&nbsp;info@hps-gmbh.com<br>Telephone: +49 (89) 4520576-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPS hands over Euclid\u00b4s Flight Model of Antenna Reflector Assembly (ARA) to TAS-I in Rome Euclid, ESA\u00b4s ambitious mission to map geometry and development of the Dark Universe over the past 10 billion years from 2022 on has taken a big step forward: HPS delivered the ARA-flight model hardware to ESA\u00b4s prime TAS in Rome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,821,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11907,"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions\/11907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestofspace.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}