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E.T.PACK SIGNED

Electrodynamic Tether Technology for Passive Consumable-less Deorbit Kit

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Project "E.T.PACK" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID Organization address address: CALLE MADRID 126 city: GETAFE (MADRID) postcode: 28903 website: http://www.uc3m.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Spain [ES]
Total cost	3˙039˙977 €
EC max contribution	2˙999˙999 € (99%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.2.1. (FET Open)
Code Call	H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01
Funding Scheme	RIA
Starting year	2019
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2019-03-01 to 2022-05-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID Organization address address: CALLE MADRID 126 city: GETAFE (MADRID) postcode: 28903 website: http://www.uc3m.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (GETAFE (MADRID))	coordinator	468˙587.00
2	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN Organization address address: HELMHOLTZSTRASSE 10 city: DRESDEN postcode: 1069 website: http://www.tu-dresden.de/ contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (DRESDEN)	participant	699˙275.00
3	SENER INGENIERIA Y SISTEMAS SA SENER INGENIERIA Y SISTEMAS SA Organization address address: AVENIDA ZUGAZARTE 56 city: GETXO postcode: 48930 website: www.sener.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (GETXO)	participant	643˙659.00
4	FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. Organization address address: HANSASTRASSE 27C city: MUNCHEN postcode: 80686 website: www.fraunhofer.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (MUNCHEN)	participant	638˙975.00
5	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA Organization address address: VIA 8 FEBBRAIO 2 city: PADOVA postcode: 35122 website: www.unipd.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (PADOVA)	participant	401˙125.00
6	ADVANCED THERMAL DEVICES S.L. ADVANCED THERMAL DEVICES S.L. Organization address address: C/ VILLACONEJOS 4 ALGETTE city: ALCORCON postcode: 28925 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (ALCORCON)	participant	148˙377.00

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Project objective

The Low Work-function Tether (LWT) is a long conductive tape coated with a material that enhances thermionic and photoelectric electron emissions. It enables spacecraft to de-orbit and/or re-boost without the need for consumables. It interacts passively with its environment (ambient plasma, magnetic field and solar radiation) to exchange momentum with the planet’s magnetosphere. E.T.PACK aims at developing a proof of concept for LWTs by breaking through and combining the current frontier of knowledge in three fields: plasma physics, low work function material science and space tethers. These will be integrated into a deorbit kit and a flight simulator for mission analysis. The kit aims to reach Technology Readiness Level 4 and will have two modes of operation: as a fully passive LWT and as a conventional electrodynamic tether equipped with an active hollow-cathode (backup mode). A new coating process for the electride, C12A7 ([Ca24Al28O64]4(4e-)), will be developed, and used to manufacture a LWT demonstrator. The C12A7 and its extraordinary properties will be also applied to the hollow cathode of the kit, which will include a novel deployment mechanism specifically designed for LWT applications. The complex current exchange of LWTs with the ambient plasma under space-charge-conditions will be studied theoretically, and used to develop accurate simulators. The theory-experiment comparisons will lead to a solid framework for LWT operation and constraints, including thermal, mechanical, optical, electrical, ATOX and UV resistance, and survivability. Hitherto impossible mission scenarios will be explored, thus opening up new horizons in space science and technology. These interdisciplinary activities, placed at the cutting edge of their fields and highly interdependent, make E.T.PACK a high-risk project. This is fully compensated by its potential impact: Europe being the first with access to a reversible in-space propulsion technology free of consumables.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2020	G. SÃ¡nchez-Arriaga, J.R. SanmartÃn Electrical model and optimal design scheme for low work-function tethers in thrust mode published pages: 105519, ISSN: 1270-9638, DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2019.105519	Aerospace Science and Technology 96	2020-04-21
2020	G. Sanchez-Arriaga, S. Naghdi Ionospheric Experiment with a Low Work Function Tether Loop published pages: 212-221, ISSN: 1533-3884, DOI: 10.2514/1.g004746	Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 43/2	2020-04-21
2019	WÃ¤tzig, Katja; Rost, Axel; Schilm, Jochen; Tajmar, M.; Michaelis, Alexander Contacting Methods for C12A7 Electride Ceramic published pages: , ISSN: 2190-9385, DOI: 10.4416/JCST2019-00032	Fraunhofer IKTS 1	2020-04-21

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