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

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

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

HERA is unprecedented in its scientific and technological targets and will deliver the initially setting up blocks of a planetary security ability. It aims to ascertain no matter if the maneuver of diverting a perilous asteroid from its collision system with Earth is the appropriate approach to deploy to reduce a real danger and will start a deflection check to uncover out.

During the HERA mission, a workforce of scientists and experts from Atos in Romania will check the information manipulation devices on board of the room probe all through the assembly strategies and integration and verification steps. They will also assist flight computer software development, the loading and execution monitoring interfaces, as well as the diagnostic interfaces for the flight processor. The multi-disciplinary workforce includes Atos experts in style and design, development, validation and integration of computer software and components answers, particularly in the places of radio frequencies and electricity circuits.

“The HERA mission is a big step in safeguarding our world, and Romania will contribute decisively to the world wide defense effort. This mission signifies an essential progress in creating the ability of the national field to just take part in deep-room missions. As a result of this expedition to a binary program of asteroids, as well as the experimental route deviation of a person of them and the thorough observation of the end result, room exploration is reaching a new milestone in human heritage“, claimed Marius-Ioan Piso, President of the Romanian Room Agency (ROSA).

“The Atos workforce from Brașov has been operating for several yrs together with ESA to have out several room missions and contribute to the evolution of mission planning and manage devices. However, this is the initially time we are using part in a “Planetary Defense” mission which provides us new technological issues, but also the satisfaction that we can do our part to help you save the world in addition to our initiatives in digitization and decarbonization. We are well aware that there is no Planet B“, claimed Günther Lackner, VP, GM & Global Head of BU Room & Avionics at Atos.

Atos Romania is a crucial competency centre for Atos Room world wide answers, a trusted partner in the journey to Room. Atos in Romania has in depth practical experience in the fields of Electric powered Floor Assistance Tools (EGSE), Mission Control Programs (MCS), Floor Stations (GS) and Federated Identification Management (FIM). EGSE activities carried out by Atos in Romania contain the validation of radio-frequency, satellite communications components, verification of room shuttle devices and information flows, simulation of communications with ground stations, verification and electrical devices (solar panels, batteries, and so forth.), central coordination devices for verification and manage devices.

Experts from Atos in Romania have currently contributed to several other considerable ESA & non-ESA missions, these types of as Euclid, Juice, Proba-3, MetOpSG, Plato, Sentinel 5 & six and OneWeb.

More information about Atos’ answers for room & avionics : https://atos.web/en/answers/aerospace-defense-electronics

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More information on HERA

The HERA mission is part of the worldwide AIDA (Asteroid Effect & Deflection Assessment) software, made in collaboration with NASA, accountable for conducting the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Examination) room check.
There are two steps in the mission:

• In July following calendar year the DART satellite will be launched and directed to hit the Didymoon asteroid (165m diameter), a normal satellite of the much larger asteroid Didymos (775m diameter)which signifies a potential possibility to Earth. Authorities estimate that DART will hit the asteroid in September 2022.
• In Oct 2024, 3 HERA satellites will be launched to analyze the “criminal offense scene”. They should really arrive in close proximity to Didymoon in January 2027 to acquire and analyze essential information which will support scientists greater have an understanding of the composition and composition of asteroids and to build new systems and approaches to deviate them.

About Atos

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