PERIOD is proposing as baseline an ambitious demonstration concept that will allow building a functional satellite in a robotised orbital “Factory” including antenna fabrication, satellite assembly, reconfiguration and verification. This will be the precursor to future manufacturing of large structures in orbit.
Demonstrating ISMA capabilities, the PERIOD mission will initiate the transformation of the lifecycle of space systems toward higher value, higher system capacities, higher resilience and lower capital expense, and toward independent European capabilities allowing Europe building the future orbital infrastructure and being competitive on the ISMA market.
The current baseline for PERIOD foresees an installation of two boxes in adjacent slots on the BARTOLOMEO platform of the International Space Station (ISS). The robotic factory has the objective to perform all required robotic operations necessary to realize the intended On-Orbit Servicing and In Space Manufacturing and Assembly application.
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We are pleased to inform you that a Results in Brief article has been published on the CORDIS website.
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On the 19th of October PERIOD had the opportunity to participate to the session entitled “Way of future orbital and planetary robotics” as part of the 12th EASN International Conference. The session was organized by our DFKI colleague Dr. Wiebke Brinkmann.
During the last week of September the team participated to the 3rd European Operations Framework (EOF) Workshop (28-29 September 2022 at the DLR premises in Cologne).
A number of on-site displays were set-up and video presentations were shown with the aim to showcase the PERIOD outcomes.