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This is my sanctuary, where water washes away the day’s weight.
A quiet space for resetting, cleansing, and small rituals that refresh more than skin.
Bright, open, intentional, a pause that prepares me to start anew.
Not a spacesuit but a SCAPE suit – standing for ‘Self Contained Atmospheric Protective Ensemble’. Technicians don these suits before filling satellites with the toxic hydrazine fuel used for manoeuvres in space. This one was snapped by Portuguese photographer Edgar Martins at ESA’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
ESA’s Clean Space initiative is researching greener alternatives to hydrazine but for now this high-energy propellant is being used to fuel almost all satellites as well as launcher upper stages.
Edgar Martins collaborated closely with ESA to produce a comprehensive photographic survey of the Agency’s various facilities around the globe, together with those of its international partners.
Characteristically empty of people, Martins’ long-exposure photos – taken with analogue wide film cameras – possess a stark, reverent style. They document the variety of specialised installations and equipment needed to prepare missions for space, or to recreate orbital conditions for testing down on Earth.
Credits: Edgar Martins
Ideally, no parts of a reentering satellite would survive their fiery return through the atmosphere, so testing is being used to understand how satellites break apart as they fall.
ESA subjected samples of typical satellite structures – such as the one shown, with a structural joint between two aluminium sandwich panels – to conditions equivalent to atmospheric reentry.
The testing made use of the Plasma Wind Tunnel of the DLR German Aerospace Center in Cologne and the Reentry Chamber of Austria’s AAC company in Wiener Neustadt to produce the hypersonic winds and high heat flux required.
“The objective was to understand the failure modes of the current structural joining technologies used on satellites,” comments ESA materials researcher Benoit Bonvoisin.
In future, the aim is to design satellites to disintegrate during reentry, known as ‘design for demise’ or D4D.
Engineer Tiago Soares is working on D4D as part of ESA’s Clean Space initiative, reducing the environmental impacts of the space sector on both Earth and in orbit: “The next step is to develop and test promising new technologies to ensure better fragmentation during reentry.”
Credits: ESA
Technology Image of the Week: Clean Space board game
It might not look like a training exercise: space engineers sitting around a meeting table, throwing down cards on a board game. But they are busily learning about the hidden environmental costs of space missions.
ESA’s Clean Space initiative – tasked with reducing the environmental footprints of the space industry both on Earth and in orbit – includes a dedicated ‘ecodesign’ element. As part of this effort, this new board game was created by the Quantis company.
Terrestrial industry uses the ‘life cycle assessment’ method to assess the environmental impacts across a product’s entire life. Now it is being harnessed for space projects, too.
At the start, the players are presented with a board showing a mission’s complete life,from initial planning to design and manufacture of the satellite and its launcher, the launch campaign and mission operations, concluding with its end-of-life and disposal.
The group is handed cards marked with differing sources of environmental impacts, such as air, road, rail or sea transport, office electricity use or material manufacturing, applying their knowledge to place these cards at the life cycle stages, or remove them entirely if they are judged irrelevant.
Next, they are given a set of tokens representing the impacts themselves, spanning a trio of classes: Global Warming Potential, Resource Depletion and Human Toxicity. The players have to assign these impacts around the life cycle in turn.
“At the end of the game, the board will represent the group’s combined understanding and best guesses of impacts arising along a space mission’s life,” explains Julian Austin of Clean Space.
“Then comes the moment when the group is shown the actual results – based on the detailed research we have already performed across the sector. Comparing their perceptions with the facts helps demonstrate principles in a clear and obvious way, leading in turn to brainstorming of ways to make space missions less damaging in future.”
The game is being used by ESA as part of internal ecodesign training sessions, set to be extended to industry in future.
Credit: ESA– J. Delaval
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Grupo suíço estava desenvolvendo um projeto de "lixeiro espacial", o CleanSpace One, para capturar peças e detritos que estão em órbita mas não são nada mais que lixo espacial.
Com Gerson Mora e Marco Vergotti
Credits: ESA & Marianne Tricot ( Ecole Estienne Paris)
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Following this advancements, a requirement has been placed on the prime contractor of Ariane 6 to perform an LCA of the launcher's exploitation and to compare the results to those of Ariane 5.
Credits: ESA & Marianne Tricot ( Ecole Estienne Paris)
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Within its CleanSat programme, Clean Space is designing technologies to reduce the production of space debris. On top of this, Clean Space is studying the e.Deorbit mission to remove a large piece of space debris from orbit.
Credits: ESA & Marianne Tricot ( Ecole Estienne Paris)
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'Passivation' reduces the likelihood of a satellite exploiding in the future by deactivating its power systems and batteries and venting any leftover propellant.
Credits: ESA & Marianne Tricot ( Ecole Estienne Paris)
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ESA studies 'Design for Demise' technologies in order to reduce the impact risk on ground and at the same time minimize piling up of space debris.
Credits: ESA & Marianne Tricot ( Ecole Estienne Paris)
Follow the Clean Space blog: www.blogs.esa.int/cleanspace
Following this advancements, a requirement has been placed on the prime contractor of Ariane 6 to perform an LCA of the launcher's exploitation and to compare the results to those of Ariane 5.
Credits: ESA & Marianne Tricot ( Ecole Estienne Paris)
Follow the Clean Space blog: www.blogs.esa.int/cleanspace
Space… Clean and untouched, right? At least from a distance. But taking a closer look at the orbital paths around our own planet, we see a lot of junk: derelict satellites and rocket upper stages, and smaller fragments, all hurtling around at hypersonic velocities. Since 2012 ESA’s Clean Space initiative has been working to keep space as safe, clean and accessible to future generations as possible reducing the environmental impact of our space activities across their entire life cycle, from their initial design to their end-of-life. Because the clean way is the right way.
To learn more about Clean Space, check out the team's blog: blogs.esa.int/cleanspace
Credits: ESA (Genevieve Porter) – Marianne Tricot (Ecole Estienne Paris)
29 000 human-made objects larger than 10 cm are in orbit, both dead and operational. The Low-Earth orbit is the most highly congested region in space with 75% of all catalogued objects.
Check out what Clean Space does to clean up orbits from that junk: www.blogs.esa.int/cleanspace
At the moment there are thousands of satellites orbiting the earth along with spent rocket bodies and additional debris items. Orbiting debris moves so fast it that a one centimetre nut could hit another satellite with the force of an exploding hand grenade. Debris tends to produce more debris. To prevent the production of new debris in either space or Earth, The Clean Space initiative’s CleanSat programme is developing innovative ways to deorbit satellites from low-earth orbits, developing design and materials methods to ensure satellites fully burn-up during re-entry and making sure that abandoned satellites make safe any and all stored energy that might one day trigger orbital break-ups. Such new technologies to use space in a different way are crucial, if we want future generation to go on making full use of space and exploring our Universe.
To learn more about Clean Space, check out the team's blog: blogs.esa.int/cleanspace
Credits: ESA (Genevieve Porter) – Marianne Tricot (Ecole Estienne Paris)
To assess the environment impacts of space missions, ESA’s Clean Space initiative began by looking at the impact of launchers then progressed to the entire mission life-cycle: from design to demise. So began the Eco-design initiative. Clean Space has developed methods to assess the environmental consequences of each phase of a space mission, resulting in a ‘life cycle assessment’ method that is being applied to all future ESA missions before their design begins.
To learn more about Clean Space, check out the team's blog: blogs.esa.int/cleanspace
Credits: ESA / Marianne Tricot
Even if we stopped launching new missions into space tomorrow, the volume of space debris would keep on growing because of future break-ups and collisions. The best way to prevent such a chain reaction is to remove entire large items of debris items from space. Clean Space's e.Deorbit mission will catch and dispose of a derelict ESA-owned satellite. Such a mission is a world first that presents many challenges, but success would pave the way to a cleaner space.
To learn more about Clean Space, check out the team's blog: blogs.esa.int/cleanspace
Credits: ESA/ Marianne Tricot
Testing the firing of an orbital harpoon intended to secure derelict satellites for disposal. In recent years ESA has been researching the concept of a debris-catching harpoon with European space actors. Its latest activity has covered a fundamental aspect of the concept: the interaction between the harpoon and the target. This activity, conducted by Airbus UK as prime contractor together with Cavendish Laboratory, the University of New South Wales and Brunel University gave some promising results. The contractor proposed to design the projectile in a pointed ‘ogive’ form with a lead tip. They demonstrated that this design performed optimally during impact.
Credits: ESA - European Space Agency / Airbus
Get inspired by the technologies that are being and will be developed to reduce the growth of space debris within the CleanSat project: blogs.esa.int/cleanspace/2016/07/13/cleansat-reshaping-fu...
COPV found in Spain after uncontrolled re-entry of a launcher upper stage in 2015
Want to know how do materials behave during atmospheric reentry ? Read the following blog post:
blogs.esa.int/cleanspace/2017/03/02/how-do-materials-beha...
Credit: ESA
ESA's Clean Space initiative is studying an active debris removal mission called e.Deorbit, which will target an ESA-owned derelict satellite in low orbit, capture it, then safely burn it up in a controlled atmospheric reentry. e.Deorbit will be the world's first active debris removal mission, and will provide an opportunity for European industries to showcase their technological capabilities to a global audience.
At the end-of-life, one has to ensure a complete satellite passivation while the spacecraft is still under control, including venting any leftover propellants.
blogs.esa.int/cleanspace/2016/11/04/get-your-satellite-to...
Artistic view of satellite propulsion passivation at end of life (by Marianne Tricot, Ecole Estienne)
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French drains were named after Henry French who lived in the lat 1800's. In the 1950's era and before clay tile was used and installed with gaps to allow water to enter. That was the system used to help move water and protect the structure. The term drain tile began with this type of system. Now this term applies to a pipe with holes or slots in it that is buried for drainage in many different situations such as field drainage, exterior footing drains, road drainage, etc. In 1994, the WaterGuard system began to be used. It is a great improvement over both of these older drain tile systems.
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One way to reduce the production of debris in the low-earth orbit is to develop satellites that will leave the orbit at the end of their life. Most of them will therefore re-enter the atmosphere. To reduce the impact risk on ground resulting from the re-entry, ESA Clean space is looking at advanced solutions to enhance satellites burn-up upon re-entry. Read more: blogs.esa.int/cleanspace/2016/08/05/why-would-we-build-a-...
Sump Pump Springtime Check Up! It is a great time to check out your sump pump before the rains! Watch this for the facts: youtu.be/KKyMWAjXgEA
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Please note that extreme care is taken to preserve the floor board heater, paneling, etc. during the installation of the WaterGuard waterproofing system.
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According to Wikipedia: "The French drain has evolved significantly from its origins - starting off as a hand-dug ditch, moving on to ceramic tile, PVC pipe, and eventually to the new French drain innovations on the market like WaterGuard..."
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The WaterGuard System is installed below the floor and above the footer. This system is designed to capture the water at its most common point of entry, where the floor and wall meet also known as the floor/wall joint. WaterGuard systems are also designed to capture water from the walls and leaky window wells. Everything here is prepped and ready. Check this out for more information: www.structuralrepaircolorado.com/basement-waterproofing/f...
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The sump pump in the background and CleanSpace all around work together to create a drier healther crawl space. This encapsulation system is worth knowing more about. Check this out: www.structuralrepaircolorado.com/crawl-space-repair/vapor...
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The water is captured and contained and redirected to a sump pump and is pumped back outside where it belongs.
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Handles for future satellites to grab them more easily. Aritistic view by Marianne Tricole, ecole Estienne
Unfinished basement walls allow water vapor and cold damp air from the outside into your home. Basement Systems offers four options - ZenWall, BrightWall, ThermalDry Wall, and CleanSpace Wall. Visit www.basementsystems.com/basement_waterproofing/basement_wall for more information!
It gets cold here in Colorado! What happens if the discharge line freezes? The water cannot flow out and then it backs up. The IceGuard system seen in this photo is a specially engineered fitting that handles that back up water by automatically ejecting it outside and away from the exterior wall.
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ESA's Clean Space initiative carries out studies to quantify the environmental impact of satellites and launchers. To understand what it means, read: blogs.esa.int/cleanspace/2016/05/04/ecoredesigning-space/
Credits: ESA & Marianne Tricot ( Ecole Estienne Paris)
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This is how the crawlspace looked when we first arrived. They had covered the floor with old canvas painter's cloths. The whole area smelled mildewy and it was dark and nasty. There were tons of crickets and the space was wasted--who would want to store anything down there in that crawlspace?
CleanSpace Encapsulation System is a vapor barrier for crawl spaces to keep moisture away from your living area in the house. visit www.dirtcrawlspace.com for more info on cleanspace material
Credits: ESA & Marianne Tricot ( Ecole Estienne Paris)
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These developements will pave the way for the creation of new services and markets, such as in-orbit servicing.
Credits: ESA & Marianne Tricot ( Ecole Estienne Paris)
Follow the Clean Space blog: www.blogs.esa.int/cleanspace