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This EPIC project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640199 This presentation reflects only the EPIC Consortium’s view. The EC/REA are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

EPIC Lecture Series 2018

18th October 2018 QMUL, London (UK)

EPIC education objectives and activities

Jorge Lopez Reig / PSA (CDTI)

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Space Electric Propulsion is cool !

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Space Electric Propulsion is a reality today !

Eutelsat 172B

Airbus Eurostar E3000 “full

electric”

Smart-1

GOCE

Artemis

BepiColombo

Lisa

Alfasat

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ARC discharge

Space Electric Propulsion is complex and challenging !

Eutelsat 172

Smart-1

Artemis

Lisa pathfinder

Lisa

GIT

HET

HEMPT

MPD

PPT

HPT Arcjet

FEEP

Colloid

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Space Electric Propulsion is more than thrusters !

Eutelsat 172

Smart-1

GOCE

Lisa pathfinder

Lisa

Thruster

Fuel Management System (FMS) Tank and propellant

Power Processing Unit (PPU)

Flight dynamics

Tests and qualification facilities

Simulation tools and codes

Satellite integration

Electric Prolusion System (EPS)

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Space Electric Propulsion is a strategic space technology, and finally we are living a revolution with the use of electric propulsion in space. The advantages of these technologies with respect to classical chemical propulsion are a much higher specific impulse (Isp), which implies a significant saving in propellant mass and associated costs, and a great spacecraft controllability, due to the possibility of generating very low thrust forces accurately during much longer times.

Space Electric Propulsion is only for Space!

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Space Electric Propulsion is cool because… save mass

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This EPIC project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640199 This presentation reflects only the EPIC Consortium’s view. The EC/REA are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

• Organization of educational material, trainings and

lectures, making use of the ESA and National Agencies educational programmes and resources.

• Exchange and network with non-space sectors to identify opportunities outside the space field, presenting the PSA work at non-space events when possible.

• Preparation of education material related to space and EP especially aimed at promoting the interest in STEM, science, technology, engineering and mathematics in grade and high school students.

• Particular attention will be paid to gender issues, aiming specific actions to promote the interest of female students in technical fields.

• Trainees and workshops in the ESA Propulsion Laboratory at ESTEC in support of EPIC.

EPIC Education objectives

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EPIC Lecture Series is an important EDUCATION activity of the Horizon 2020 Electric Propulsion SRC activities funded by the EU. Its objective is to provide science and engineering university students (bachelor, master, PhD) with a selection of lectures on Space Electric Propulsion, from the basic technology and concepts to the latest developments. The EPIC Lecture Series 2017 was organized by: EPIC, CDTI and the University Carlos III Madrid (UC3M), also with the support of the Polytechnic University

of Madrid (UPM).

EPIC Lecture Series objectives

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EPIC Lecture Series 2018 is organized by: UKSA, EPIC and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), also with the support of other local British Universities.

EPIC Lecture Series objectives

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This EPIC project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640199 This presentation reflects only the EPIC Consortium’s view. The EC/REA are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

• Papers at IEPC 2015, Kobe-Hyogo (JP); IEPC 2017, Atlanta (USA); SP-2018, Seville (ES); IAC 2018, Bremen (DE).

• EPIC Lecture Series: in London (UK), and in Madrid (ES). • Lectures at: Aerospace Master Programme at the University Carlos III of

Madrid (UC3M) on Electric Propulsion and its applications; Dresden University on Electric Propulsion Activities, Dresden (DE); Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), Brussels (BE).

• Video on: Lecture on Electric Propulsion at the UC3M/edx Course “The Counquest of Space” by Jose Gonzalez del Amo; ESA Video: The importance of an interdisciplinary approach and Space Electric Propulsion.

• High schools activity for students to design, manufacture and test at ESTEC (ESA) a vacuum arc thruster.

• EPIC education webpage with education material from different sources / http://epic-src.eu/education/

EPIC Education activities and material

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This EPIC project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640199 This presentation reflects only the EPIC Consortium’s view. The EC/REA are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

EPIC Education activities and material

Funded by the European Union

This EPIC project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640199 This presentation reflects only the EPIC Consortium’s view. The EC/REA are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

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