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With the low Earth orbit becoming increasingly occupied by spacecrafts as well as debris resulting from various spaceflight activities, the amount of space debris is steadily increasing. Following ESA's strategy to reduce space debris to zero starting 2030, the advancement of European large satellite platform products is mandated. OHB participated by upgrading its standard Earth Observation Platform (Eos) to be compliant to the evolution of the space debris mitigation requirements and additional technical objectives.
Eos, as OHB System AG’s (OHB’s) Standard Earth Observation Platform, envelopes the Copernicus specific implementation of the standard platform developments. The key feature of the Eos product line is to provide a common platform design providing high performance for earth observation applications. The Eos platform builds on common and well-established technologies, thereby providing the fast-track opportunities combined with low risks in platform adaptation to different mission needs.
As a result of the first phase of the activity, key technologies were identified, along with down selection of technologies to be developed in Phase 2 to TRL 6. System level impacts of the technologies were evaluated to a delta-SRR level, along with the consolidation and compliance of the proposed evolution of the space debris mitigation requirements.