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The concept of On-orbit manufacturing and recycling has received increasing attention in the past years and a number of isolated technology developments have been initiated. The production and reuse of spacecraft in orbit provides the potential to turn problems into valuable assets. This requires the understanding of the implications at mission and system level as well as a clear view of the use cases benefiting from this approach. To address this complex issue,ESA introduced the OMAR (On-orbit Manufacture, Assembly & Recycle) initiative.
Within this activity the OMAR Mission Architecture Study was led by OHB System. Multiple mission architectures are possible for the implementation of services in orbit. The main objective of the OMAR Mission Architecture study was to identify and trade-off different mission architectures, to provide different services in LEO, MEO and GEO. For the investigated scenarios, a system functional analysis and trade-off of different architectures and concepts of operations was performed. The results of study led to three mission architectures including a LEO satellite manufacturing and assembly station as well as LEO and MEO satellite refurbishment architectures.
