Project objectives
The objectives for the EROSS SC mission:
Support the maturation of rendezvous and autonomous robotic technologies for space application, leveraging on the previous building blocks developed in prior H2020 and other European projects
Further design and prepare a high-impact, low-cost in-orbit mission to demonstrate the capability of European industry to propose sustainable, highly automated, flexible and economically viable space infrastructures
Allow late integration of an ORU, as a demonstration of the modularity for next generation of space assets
Explore the emerging OOS (Inspection/surveillance, Life extension, Change of Orbit, End-of-life removal/Deorbiting) and longer term markets (Refuelling, Upgrade, Assembly) to prepare a viable European commercial solution in a sustainable context
Support and enable the shift of paradigm and pave the way towards On-Orbit Manufacturing, Repair, Recycling and Re-use, shifting from conventional to adaptive and intelligent solutions for space