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Description
Mr Come BERGER, from the Future Satellites Systems Department of the Observation and Science Domain of Thales Alenia Space in France will present the concept and mission of an orbital Recycling Space Plant involving a solar furnace for material melting, being studied in the frame of the selected mission proposed during the ESA “System Studies for the Circular Economy in Space” Campaign.
Indeed Thales Alenia Space will work on two complementary topics in this study:
•The main one, aiming to propose a preliminary design for a Recycling Space Plant. The idea here and core activity is to define and propose a design and concept of operations for a Recycling Space Plant involving a solar furnace for materials melting.
•The identification of the materials and methods for on-orbit recycling as well as the impacts on the spacecraft designed for recyclability. The idea and core activity here is to explore the ways to enable Design For Circularity initiative from the materials selection and satellite design point of view in order to feed a comprehensive orbital recycling capability.
Thales Alenia Sapce team has been working on large space infrastructures and on orbit manufacturing, assembly and recycling for several ESA, EC and CNES studies. It will be supported by PROMES Laboratory of CNRS, which will bring its expertise in solar furnaces design and use for research on materials and space applications.
