What’s EROSS:
EROSS (European Robotic Orbital Support Services) objective is to demonstrate the European solutions for the Servicers and the Serviced LEO/GEO satellites, enabling a large range of efficient and safe orbital support services. The project will assess and demonstrate the capability of the on-orbit servicing spacecraft (chaser) to perform rendezvous, capturing, grasping, berthing and manipulating of a collaborative client satellite provisioned for servicing operations including refuelling and payload transfer/replacement. EROSS embeds key European Technologies by leveraging on actuators, sensors, software frameworks and algorithms developed in previous European Projects. EROSS boosts the maturity of these key building blocks and increases their functionalities and performance in a coherent work programme targeting fast and practical deployment of the developed solutions in space. The consortium went into great details in the EROSS concept and the technical operational plan to manage perfectly the risks and complexity of development of such a large system. EROSS goes beyond SPACE-12- TEC-2018 expectation, enabling extended markets by proposing additional features to cover more complex space robotics operations like orbital servicing of non-collaborative and non-equipped satellites
What's new?
SIROM Demonstration Test
Watch a video and some photos of the demonstration test performed by SENER at the end of 2020 with the five SIROM units for EROSS and UR10 robot.
here: Video and photos
71th International Astronautical Congress (IAC)
CyberSpace Edition, 12-14 October 2020
Presentation of Vincent Dubanchet see here: presentation
OG1-4 integration workshop at SINTEF – Trondheim
The workshop took place in Trondheim, Norway on 20th of June 2019.
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