BIRDY-T, Radio-Science Caracterization of an Asteroid

CENSUS has supported the project BIRDY-T by l’IMCCE since 2014 (merge of the projects QBDIM and BIRDY). Suggested support:

  • Phase 0 studies for 2 mission concepts (Cruise and ProxOps)
  • supervision and co-supervision of internships and PhDs
  • Engineering and Project Management support for a Radio-Frequency Test Bench
  • Parametric modeling of 2 mission profiles (MBSE approach)
  • Concurrent engineering campaigns at our PROMESS Plateau

Contact: Daniel Hestroffer (IMCCE)
(website not available)



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CASSTOR, UV spectro-polarimeter IOD

CENSUS has supported the project CASSTOR by LESIA since 2020 :

  • parametric modeling of the mission profile (MBSE approach)
  • support in System Engineering during the PASO study by CNES
  • co-supervision of an internship

Contact : Coralie Neiner
(website not available)



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CIRCUS: probing Earth’s ionosphere

CENSUS has supported the project CIRCUS by LESIA since 2014. Suggested support:

  • parametric modeling of the mission profile (MBSE approach)
  • co-supervision of an internship for system engineering support
  • support in the procurement process

contact: Karine Issautier
(website not available)



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CURE, refine the ephemerids for ARIEL

CENSUS has supported the project CURE by LESIA since 2018:

  • modeling the mission profile (MBSE approach)
  • support in the scientific coverage analysis
  • concurrent engineering campaigns at our PROMESS Plateau

Contact: Vincent Coudé du Foresto
(website not available)



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NOIRE, cis-lunar observatory for radio interférometry

CENSUS has supported the NOIRE study by LESIA since 2015. Suggested support:

  • preliminary assumptions for a cis-lunar mission concept with a swarm of nanosatellites
  • support in the PASO study by CNES
  • co-supervision of internship and PhD

Contact: Baptiste Cecconi
(website not available)



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SCION-X, a collaboration with NCU in Taiwan

CENSUS started in 2019 a collaboration with NCU Taiwan for the CubeSat "SCION-X" (Scintillation and Ionosphere Extended). CENSUS’ support consists of:

  • a parametric approach called MBSE (Model-Based System Engineering) to define the possible mission profile
  • the structure of the initial modeling and its transfer to the team.

SCION-X is a project of Professor Loren C. Chang, PhD Student Jude Salinas and their students. NCU has launched a previous CubeSat, IDEASSat, on Jan.24, 2021 on-board a Falcon 9 launcher.

NCU Taiwan in space : https://www.facebook.com/NCUinSpace

Contact : Joanne Pin-An Lin pypy46146@g.ncu.edu.tw

P.I. : Loren C. Chang, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Upper Air Dynamics Laboratory
Institute of Space Science & Engineering
Center for Astronautical Physics and Engineering
National Central University
Taoyuan City, Taiwan



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TERACUBE, THz probing of Venus’ atmosphere

CENSUS has supported the project TERACUBE by LERMA since 2019. Suggested support:

  • preliminary assessment for a nanosatellite mission
  • co-supervision of an internship

Contact: Jeanne Treuttel (LERMA)
(website not available)



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TUDSat, a collaboration with TU Darmstadt, Germany

CENSUS has started a collaboration in 2019 with a TU Darmstadt team for their TUDSat CubeSat. CENSUS support consists of:

  • a parametric approach called MBSE (Model-Based System Engineering) to support the definition of the mission profile,
  • the deployment of our open source software DOCKS in particular its module for Power budget,
  • a support for MBSE and DOCKS and their transfer to the team.

Let’s also note that we met TUDSat team at the 2019 Open Source CubeSat Workshop in Athens that is becoming a promising yearly event for the New Space.

TUDSat website: https://www.tudsat.space/

Contact: Fabian Burger, CubeSat Project Manager



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