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SUMMARY:eSpace Seminar: RF System Design for Robotic Spacecraft Requiremen
 ts – Design Challenges & Emerging Technologies
DTSTART:20230927T173000
DTEND:20230927T183000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Hannes Bartle\nA cornerstone of space sustainability is the ab
 ility to efficiently service\, repair and refuel spacecrafts in orbit. Fro
 m low earth orbit to geostationary orbits\, the need for such In-Orbit Ser
 vicing (IOS) missions is clearly identified and several companies are tryi
 ng to race each other to be the first to market. Additionally\, as the pro
 blem of space debris is more and more recognized as such by private and go
 vernment stakeholders\, Active Debris Removal (ADR) missions will be impor
 tant to reduce the risk of the Kessler syndrome to set in.\n\nOne of the m
 any challenges these types of missions entail is the design of reliable an
 d secure RF systems covering communications\, radar and RF sensing. The un
 ique set of requirements posed by a highly agile\, robotic spacecraft pose
 s several challenges for RF systems in terms of performance\, reliability 
 and cost. This talk will give an overview of typical requirements\, trade-
 offs and regulatory hurdles that one will encounter when designing RF syst
 ems for robotic spacecrafts. Furthermore\, an overview of emerging technol
 ogies and current research will be provided.\n\nBIO:\nHannes Bartle is an 
 Industrial PhD student in the Microwaves and Antennas Group (MAG) at EPFL\
 , while being employed by ClearSpace SA. His research focuses on the field
  of mutual coupling between antennas and installed antenna performance on 
 electrically large structures. He is the technical point of contact regard
 ing RF and antenna related topics at ClearSpace and is responsible for the
  development\, design and procurement of RF hardware and antennas\, most n
 otably the ClearSpace-1 communication systems. He received a B.Eng in Aero
 space Engineering from the Corporate State University Friedrichshafen\, Ge
 rmany\, and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Aarhus University\, De
 nmark.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/66802721613
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