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Description
DRACO (Destructive Re-entry Assessment Container Object) ESA mission will be the world’s first demonstration of a controlled break-up process of a satellite during re-entry. It is based on a representative small satellite platform with surviving capsule to transmit data on ground.
DRACO mission objectives are three-fold: to demonstrate the break-up process of a spacecraft during re-entry to extrapolate ground-test to flight, to establish an understanding by recording the physics of destructive aerothermal break-ups not accessible from ground or by model, and to test early fragmentation design for demise (D4D) technologies.
The presentation will cover the current development status of DRACO mission, together with the scientific data foreseen to be collected and how to connect with on-ground testing results and model simulations.
