Scientists from Atos engage in HERA mission to preserve the planet from asteroid collision

Bucharest, Romania and Paris, France – December 2, 2020,

Atos nowadays announces that a workforce of digital transformation experts from Atos Romania are getting aspect in HERA, the initially planetary defense mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in collaboration with NASA, which aims to decide how asteroids can be deflected so that they do not hit Earth.

HERA is unparalleled in its scientific and technical targets and will convey the initially developing blocks of a planetary defense capacity. It aims to decide no matter if the maneuver of diverting a hazardous asteroid from its collision program with Earth is the suitable system to deploy to protect against a real danger and will start a deflection check to obtain out.

Throughout the HERA mission, a workforce of scientists and experts from Atos in Romania will check the info manipulation units on board of the space probe during the assembly techniques and integration and verification techniques. They will also guidance flight software program growth, the loading and execution monitoring interfaces, as very well as the diagnostic interfaces for the flight processor. The multi-disciplinary workforce consists of Atos experts in design and style, growth, validation and integration of software program and hardware options, specifically in the places of radio frequencies and ability circuits.

“The HERA mission is a main phase in guarding our planet, and Romania will add decisively to the international defense effort and hard work. This mission represents an essential progress in building the capacity of the nationwide business to consider aspect in deep-space missions. Through this expedition to a binary technique of asteroids, as very well as the experimental route deviation of one particular of them and the thorough observation of the outcome, space exploration is reaching a new milestone in human historical past“, claimed Marius-Ioan Piso, President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA).

“The Atos workforce from Brașov has been doing the job for a number of decades together with ESA to carry out many space missions and add to the evolution of mission scheduling and management units. Even so, this is the initially time we are getting aspect in a “Planetary Defense” mission which brings us new technical worries, but also the satisfaction that we can do our aspect to save the planet in addition to our attempts in digitization and decarbonization. We are very well knowledgeable that there is no Earth B“, claimed Günther Lackner, VP, GM & Global Head of BU Space & Avionics at Atos.

Atos Romania is a essential competency heart for Atos Space international options, a reliable partner in the journey to Space. Atos in Romania has extensive knowledge in the fields of Electrical Ground Assistance Devices (EGSE), Mission Handle Methods (MCS), Ground Stations (GS) and Federated Identification Administration (FIM). EGSE routines carried out by Atos in Romania involve the validation of radio-frequency, satellite communications parts, verification of space shuttle devices and info flows, simulation of communications with floor stations, verification and electrical units (solar panels, batteries, etc.), central coordination units for verification and management devices.

Professionals from Atos in Romania have now contributed to many other considerable ESA & non-ESA missions, this sort of as Euclid, Juice, Proba-three, MetOpSG, Plato, Sentinel five & six and OneWeb.

A lot more details about Atos’ options for space & avionics : https://atos.web/en/options/aerospace-defense-electronics

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A lot more details on HERA

The HERA mission is aspect of the worldwide AIDA (Asteroid Affect & Deflection Assessment) application, developed in collaboration with NASA, accountable for conducting the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Examination) space check.
There are two techniques in the mission:

• In July subsequent calendar year the DART satellite will be released and directed to hit the Didymoon asteroid (165m diameter), a purely natural satellite of the bigger asteroid Didymos (775m diameter)which represents a likely danger to Earth. Experts estimate that DART will hit the asteroid in September 2022.
• In October 2024, three HERA satellites will be released to assess the “criminal offense scene”. They really should arrive in the vicinity of Didymoon in January 2027 to obtain and assess essential info which will assistance scientists better understand the composition and framework of asteroids and to develop new technologies and procedures to deviate them.

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