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Coordinator |
SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA
Organization address contact info |
Coordinator Country | Italy [IT] |
Total cost | 3˙098˙751 € |
EC max contribution | 3˙003˙751 € (97%) |
Programme |
1. H2020-EU.2.1.6.1. (Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence and innovation of the European space sector) 2. H2020-EU.2.1.6.2. (Enabling advances in space technology) |
Code Call | H2020-SPACE-2019 |
Funding Scheme | RIA |
Starting year | 2020 |
Duration (year-month-day) | from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31 |
Take a look of project's partnership.
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1 | SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA | IT (PISA) | coordinator | 407˙250.00 |
2 | ANTWERP SPACE N.V. | BE (ANTWERP) | participant | 1˙097˙217.00 |
3 | LIONIX INTERNATIONAL BV | NL (ENSCHEDE) | participant | 903˙750.00 |
4 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK | IE (Cork) | participant | 442˙500.00 |
5 | OHB SYSTEM AG | DE (BREMEN) | participant | 105˙000.00 |
6 | ASTRO- UND FEINWERKTECHNIK ADLERSHOF GMBH | DE (BERLIN) | participant | 48˙033.00 |
SPACEBEAM aims at designing, realizing and testing an innovative radar receiver that will enable the concept of reconfigurable multi-beam Scan-on-Receive Synthetic Aperture Radar for Earth observation applications. In order to comply with the requirements of future swarms and constellations of low-Earth orbit satellites and cubesats in terms of performance, size, weight, power consumption and cost, the envisioned receiver will be based on an optical beamforming network realized as a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The PIC will implement a precise, continuous beamforming of wideband signals (>600MHz) from an array of 12 antenna elements into 3 beams of 4 antennas each, with the capability to flexibly change the set of antennas per beam, as well as the number of output beams (from 3 beams of 4 antennas each, to 2 of 6, to 1 of 12). At the same time, the PIC will also realize a frequency-agnostic photonic down-conversion of signals in the range from 5 to 40 GHz, down to 1.5 GHz, so that the output signals can be directly digitized. These innovative features make the SPACEBEAM PIC a powerful device for future Earth observation applications. The PIC will be implemented using two materials platforms, to achieve a compact “hybrid” chip-assembly including several active and passive functions (lasers, detectors, modulators, filters, switches, delays, phase shifters). The PIC will be controlled using a novel actuation technique based on low-power consuming piezo elements. In order to push forward the maturity of the SPACEBEAM technology (target TRL 6), the project will also develop and test a Space-compliant package for the PIC. The packaged PIC will be included in a specifically designed Engineering Qualified Model of the multi-beam SCORE-SAR sensor, to properly test the performance of the entire system. The photonics-based SCORE SAR system will therefore show more functionalities, better performance, and lower size, weight, and power consumption than the current systems.
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