Galileo Case Study

2013 ◽  
pp. 251-282
Author(s):  
Aggelos Liapis ◽  
Evangelos Argyzoudis
Keyword(s):  
Data Exchange ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Space Missions ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Future Space ◽  
Collaborative Working

The Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) of the European Space Agency (ESA) allows a team of experts from several disciplines to apply concurrent engineering for the design of future space missions. It facilitates faster and effective interaction of all disciplines involved, ensuring consistent and high-quality results. It is primarily used to assess the technical and financial feasibility of future space missions and new spacecraft concepts, though for some projects, the facilities and the data exchange model are used during later phases. This chapter focuses on the field of computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) and its supporting areas whose mission is to support interaction between people, using computers as the enabling technology. Its aim is to present the design and implementation framework of a semantically driven, collaborative working environment (CWE) that allows ESA’s CDF to be used by projects more extensively and effectively during project meetings, task forces, and reviews.

scholarly journals Computer Aided Design to Produce High-Detail Models through Low Cost Digital Fabrication for the Conservation of Aerospace Heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Saorín ◽  
Vicente Lopez-Chao ◽  
Jorge de la Torre-Cantero ◽  
Manuel Drago Díaz-Alemán
Keyword(s):  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Physical Scale ◽  
Scale Models ◽  
Aided Design

Aerospace heritage requires tools that allow its transfer and conservation beyond photographs and texts. The complexity of these engineering projects can be collected through digital graphic representation. Nevertheless, physical scale models provide additional information of high value when they involve full detailed information, for which the model in engineering was normally one more product of the manufacturing process, which entails a high cost. However, the standardization of digital fabrication allows the manufacture of high-detail models at low cost. For this reason, in this paper a case study of the graphic reengineering and planning stages for digital fabrication of a full-scale high-detail model (HDM) of the spatial instrument of the European Space Agency, named the Solar Orbiter mission Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (SO/PHI), is presented. After the analysis of this experience, seven stages of planning and graphic reengineering are proposed through collaborative work for the low cost digital manufacture of HDMs.

scholarly journals The Hipparcos Catalogue: 10th anniversary and its legacy

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (S248) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
C. Turon ◽  
F. Arenou
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Space Missions ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
Science Programme ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Hipparcos Catalogue ◽  
Giant Step ◽  
And Performance

AbstractThe European Space Agency decision to include the Hipparcos satellite into its Science Programme is placed in the context of the years 1965-1980 and in the historical perspective of the progress of astrometry. The motivation and ideas which lead to the Hipparcos design are reviewed as well as its characteristics and performance. The amount and variety of applications represent an impressive evolution from the original science case and opened the way to much more ambitious further space missions, especially Gaia, based on the same basic principles. A giant step in technology led to a giant step in science. Next steps are presented at this Symposium.

Situational Awareness in Collaborative Work Environments

2010 ◽  
pp. 1454-1469
Author(s):  
Olga Kulyk ◽  
Betsy van Dijk ◽  
Paul van der Vet ◽  
Anton Nijholt ◽  
Gerrit van der Veer
Keyword(s):  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Group Support Systems ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Collaborative Environments ◽  
Team Coordination ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
Awareness Support

This chapter addresses awareness support to enhance teamwork in co-located collaborative environments. In particular, the authors focus on the concept of situational awareness which is essential for successful team collaboration. Mutual situational awareness leads to informal social interactions, development of shared working cultures which are essential aspects of maintaining working relationships. First, an overview of the studies on team coordination and situational awareness support is presented. Second, a collaborative working environment is described for scientific teams in a molecular biology omics experimentation domain. Then, the results of practical case studies are discussed, as well as situational awareness support for scientific teams in collaborative environments. Finally, the authors discuss practical challenges in design and evaluation of group support systems for collaborative working environments and our multi-level analysis approach. The chapter gives new insights into how shared displays support group awareness, and how to design and evaluate interactive systems and visualisations that afford awareness in order to stimulate existing and new forms of collaboration in advanced working environments.

scholarly journals Implementation of a Cryogenic Facility for Space Debris Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 948
Author(s):  
Paulo Gordo ◽  
Tiago Frederico ◽  
Rui Melicio ◽  
António Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Space Debris ◽  
Vacuum Ultraviolet ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Space Missions ◽  
Low Earth Orbit ◽  
Material Degradation ◽  
Pressure Sensitive Adhesive ◽  
Material Evaluation ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Earth Orbits

This paper has resulted from a continued study of spacecraft material degradation and space debris formation. The design and implementation of a thermal vacuum cycling cryogenic facility for the evaluation of space debris generation at a low Earth orbit (LEO) is presented. The facility used for spacecraft external material evaluation is described, and some of the obtained results are presented. The infrastructure was developed in the framework of a study for the European Space Agency (ESA). The main purpose of the cryogenic facility is to simulate the LEO spacecraft environment, namely thermal cycling and vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) irradiation to simulate the spacecraft material degradation and the generation of space debris. In a previous work, some results under LEO test conditions showed the effectiveness of the cryogenic facility for material evaluation, namely: the degradation of satellite paints with a change in their thermo-optical properties, leading to the emission of cover flakes; the degradation of the pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) used to glue Velcro’s to the spacecraft, and to glue multilayer insulation (MLI) to the spacecraft’s. The paint flakes generated are space debris. Hence, in a scenario of space missions where a spacecraft has lost the thermal shielding capability, the failure of PSA tape and the loss of Velcro properties may contribute to the release of the full MLI blanket, contributing to the generation of space debris that presents a growing threat to space missions in the main Earth orbits.

TECHBREAK: a technology foresight activity for the European Space Agency points the way to future space telescopes

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Cunningham ◽  
Martin Cullum ◽  
Emmanouil Detsis ◽  
David Henry ◽  
Paul Kamoun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Technology Foresight ◽  
Space Telescopes ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Future Space ◽  
The Way

European Space Agency´s Hibernation (Torpor) strategy for Deep Space Missions: linking biology to engineering

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Choukér ◽  
Thu Jennifer Ngo-Anh ◽  
Robin Biesbroek ◽  
Gerhard Heldmaier ◽  
Marc Heppener ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Space Missions ◽  
Deep Space ◽  
Space Agency

Situational Awareness In Collaborative Work Environments

2009 ◽  
pp. 636-650
Author(s):  
Olga Kulyk ◽  
Betsy van Dijk ◽  
Paul van der Vet ◽  
Anton Nijholt ◽  
Gerrit van der Veer
Keyword(s):  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Group Support Systems ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Collaborative Environments ◽  
Team Coordination ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
Awareness Support

This chapter addresses awareness support to enhance teamwork in co-located collaborative environments. In particular, the authors focus on the concept of situational awareness which is essential for successful team collaboration. Mutual situational awareness leads to informal social interactions, development of shared working cultures which are essential aspects of maintaining working relationships. First, an overview of the studies on team coordination and situational awareness support is presented. Second, a collaborative working environment is described for scientific teams in a molecular biology omics experimentation domain. Then, the results of practical case studies are discussed, as well as situational awareness support for scientific teams in collaborative environments. Finally, the authors discuss practical challenges in design and evaluation of group support systems for collaborative working environments and our multi-level analysis approach. The chapter gives new insights into how shared displays support group awareness, and how to design and evaluate interactive systems and visualisations that afford awareness in order to stimulate existing and new forms of collaboration in advanced working environments.

Emerging Collaboration Routines in Knowledge-Intensive Work Processes

2011 ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Burak Sari ◽  
Hermann Loeh ◽  
Bernhard R. Katzy
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
Sufficient Detail ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Intensive Work

This article aims to identify how knowledge workers develop their own collaboration strategies and techniques for getting their work done in complex, dynamic knowledge intensive work environments. Three case studies have been conducted to explore the nature of routines in different collaborative working settings as they provide sufficient detail to better understand the actual state and problems regarding collaborative work processes among knowledge workers. Evidences from these cases show that coordination and control of projects, tasks, information, and little support by collaboration tools in all work patterns seem to be the biggest issues and there is a need for better understanding of collaboration culture as well as harmonious and integrated redesign of collaboration routines with new collaborative working environment technologies. The analysis of the cases also shows that there are considerable differences in ways of how actors communicate and coordinate their work which leads varying degrees of quality in knowledge intensive work. The results can be used to achieve a smoother collaborative working phase through innovative technical developments.

Emerging Collaboration Routines in Knowledge-Intensive Work Processes

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burak Sari ◽  
Hermann Loeh ◽  
Bernhard R. Katzy
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Intensive Work ◽  
Work Done

This article aims to identify how knowledge workers develop their own collaboration strategies and techniques for getting their work done in complex, dynamic knowledge intensive work environments. Three case studies have been conducted to explore the nature of routines in different collaborative working settings as they provide sufficient detail to better understand the actual state and problems regarding collaborative work processes among knowledge workers. Evidences from these cases show that coordination and control of projects, tasks, information, and little support by collaboration tools in all work patterns seem to be the biggest issues and there is a need for better understanding of collaboration culture as well as harmonious and integrated redesign of collaboration routines with new collaborative working environment technologies. The analysis of the cases also shows that there are considerable differences in ways of how actors communicate and coordinate their work which leads varying degrees of quality in knowledge intensive work. The results can be used to achieve a smoother collaborative working phase through innovative technical developments.

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