23–25 Oct 2018
ESTEC
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

EPFL first steps toward the Eco Design of the CleanSpace One satellite

24 Oct 2018, 14:40
20m
Erasmus building (ESTEC)

Erasmus building

ESTEC

Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, The Netherlands
EcoDesign for space missions Ecodesign

Speaker

Ms Muriel Richard-Noca (EPFL Space Center)

Description

The CleanSpace One mission aims at de-orbiting EPFL’s CubeSat SwissCube. The motivation behind the CleanSpace One project is to increase international awareness and start mitigating the impact on the space environment by acting responsibly and removing our “debris” from orbit. SwissCube is on a polar type orbit at 710 km altitude, 98.3-degree inclination. Launch is planned around 2023.
To be in line with the project’s sustainability intentions, the project started two new threads in its development: demisability investigations and eco-design. The goal would be, according to the funding available, to integrate as much as possible of these threads as early as possible in the project, as a test platform. The eco-design thread has the purpose of creating the frame for gathering the right data all along the project to be able to perform a Life Cycle Assessment. Thus it takes into account the impacts of each material and each process related to design, create, test, use and dispose the product.
The work started via a student part-time project, at a time where the ESA database was not yet available. The implementation consists of an excel parametrisation and an attempt was done to insert the excel tool into Cameo, a SYSML model based system engineering tool. The tool includes flows created by EPFL’s Sustainable Campus for the transport, infrastructure and electricity. This paper will shortly discuss the progress made with the tool.

Primary authors

Mr Julien Furrer (EPFL) Ms Muriel Richard-Noca (EPFL Space Center)

Presentation materials