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Stardust-The Asteroid and Space Debris Network (Stardust)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Asteroids and space debris represent a significant hazard for space and terrestrial assets; at the same time asteroids represent also an opportunity. In recent years it has become clear that the increasing population of space debris could lead to catastrophic consequences in the near term. The Kessler syndrome (where the density of objects in orbit is high enough that collisions could set off a ca ...
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REconfiguration of CONtrol in Flight for Integral Global Upset REcovery (RECONFIGURE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Commercial aircraft fault tolerant control (FTC) strategies in the flight control system (FCS) are based on fail-safe approaches whereby a nominal control law is switched first to a robust solution and then if necessary to a direct law controlling the actuators surfaces. Each component of the control law set is designed off-line and has a different level of robustness and performance. The reasons ...
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Hypersonic Morphing for a Cabin Escape System (HYPMOCES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

"Passenger safety is one of the main drivers for the development of future trans-atmospheric transportation systems. The high levels of energy associated hypersonic flights as well as the level of reliability of the enabling technology leads to the need of a passenger escape system in case of flight abort.The implementation of a cabin escape system for a hypersonic aircraft is challenged by the in ...
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A Global Approach to Near-Earth Object Impact Threat Mitigation (NEOSHIELD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

Collisions of asteroids and comets with the Earth have taken place frequently over geological history and have altered the evolutionary course of life; there is no reason why they should not continue to hit the Earth at irregular and unpredictable intervals in the future. Thousands of near-Earth objects (NEOs), mainly asteroids, have been discovered over the past 20 years and the reality of the im ...
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Simulator for Moving Target Indicator System (SIMTISYS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Within the framework of the FP7 3° call several policies are related to the maritime surveillance for safety purposes as border surveillance, traffic safety, fishery control and environmental protection and monitoring (i.e. sea platform infrastructures and sea ports).Within all these policies the detection and the tracking of small vessels assumes a central strategic issue. A common tool, useful ...
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Future High-Altitude High-Speed Transport 20XX (FAST20XX)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"The current project aims at the investigation and development of technologies and steps necessary for approaches to conquer the grey zone between aeronautics and space in Europe, and thus to set the foundation of a new paradigm for transportation in the long term. The underlying concepts considered are a) a European space plane based on an airplane launch approach to advance European know how in ...
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Advanced Fault Diagnosis for Safer Flight Guidance and Control (ADDSAFE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"Recent airliner accident and incident statistics show that about 16% of the accidents between 1993 and 2007 can be attributed to Loss of Control In-flight (LOC-I), caused by a piloting mistake, technical malfunctions or unusual upsets due to external disturbances. Loss of flight control remains the second largest accident category after Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) accounting for 23% of ...
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Advanced Techniques for Navigation Receivers and Applications (ATENEA)

Start date: Jan 15, 2010, End date: Jan 14, 2012,

"The ATENEA project aims to integrate the deeply integrated GNSS/INS receiver architectures and LIDAR techniques to provide an advanced navigation solution for a wide range of surveying applications in difficult environments. LIDAR devices geolocation and reference for the scanned observables is provided nowadays by loosely coupled GPS receivers and INS, leading to lack of performance in urban sce ...
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