SCHUMANN Project Kicks Off
The SCHUMANN Project Kick-Off Meeting was successfully held on January 17, 2023, at Space Applications Services headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. With full participation from all partners and the Project Officer from the European Commission, the meeting effectively aligned everyone on project goals and encouraged team collaboration. Productive discussions took place, facilitating idea exchange and project organisation. The meeting laid a strong foundation, leaving the team energised and motivated to start the work.
Space Applications Services is coordinating the project, along with other partners consisting of ReOrbit, ArianeGroup, GMV in Defense and Security and FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik. ✨
The project addresses new scalable satellite platform concepts and building blocks increasing the degree of satellite modularisation. SCHUMANN aims to strengthen the foundation of the future space ecosystem by two complementary developments:
1- Functional Satellite Module Technology Maturation
2- DSSK: Design and Development Specification for Spacecraft Construction
The refuelling interface will be based in HOTDOCK, a standard interconnect that has already been successfully demonstrated in the MOSAR Project.
The space sector is currently going through a period of transformation, with private space players making inroads in the industry, banking their ambitions on affordable and modular space infrastructure that is serviceable and reconfigurable in space.
Applications such as life extension (by means of Orbital Replacement Units), refuelling, in-space assembly and reconfiguration, in-space recycling are promising New Space applications that are poised to be a profitable revenue opportunity by 2030.
