11–13 Jun 2025
ESA/ESTEC
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

ENVIRONMENT SENSORS ON SES SPACECRAFT - PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE?

11 Jun 2025, 11:20
20m
ESCAPE Tennis hall (ESA/ESTEC)

ESCAPE Tennis hall

ESA/ESTEC

Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands
Oral presentation Frameworks, software & models

Speaker

DAVE PITCHFORD (SES)

Description

A short review of how SES has operated small environment sensors on our satellite fleet, followed by aspirations for flying additional sensors in the future - and some comments regarding the difficulties in doing this for a commercial operator. Finally, as a little light relief - some examples of how 'inadvertent sensors' - such as attitude control sensors and flight computer EDAC - can be used to give some information about the environment.

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