PLATO Industry Days (PID)

With the present announcement, the European Space Agency and OHB System AG (Germany) inform the EMITS Users (European Companies and Institutes) about a presentation of the PLATO mission, its procurement plan and related business opportunities. The first PLATO Industry Days (PID) will take place on 19-20 September 2018 at:

European Space Research and Technology Centre

(ESTEC)

Keplerlaan 1

2200 AG Noordwijk

(The Netherlands)

1. The PLATO Mission

The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars mission (PLATO) is the M3 mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Programme.

PLATO aims at finding and characterising a large number of extrasolar planetary systems, with emphasis on the properties of the terrestrial planets in the habitable zone around bright solar-like stars. PLATO also aims at investigating seismic activity in stars, enabling the precise characterisation of the planets’ host star, including its age. PLATO will provide accurate determinations of the planet radii, stellar irradiation, architecture of planetary systems and evolutionary ages/stages. In combination with ground-based observations, PLATO will provide accurate planetary masses and mean densities.

For achieving its science objectives, PLATO relies on high-precision photometry to produce a science data product consisting of a large sample of stellar light curves and astrometry measurements, obtained over time intervals of months to several years with a high duty cycle.

The scientific payload consists of 26 Cameras with a wide combined field of view of ~2250 deg2, performing photometric observation a visible wavelengths and their the associated digital and analogue electronics. During science observations, the payload will produce a large number of high-accuracy stellar-lightcurves and images over large fields and targets that will be downlinked to ground for further calibration and data-processing in order to produce the required times series for scientific analysis.

PLATO will be launched from the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, with a medium size launcher vehicle into a transfer to a large orbit around the second Lagrangian Point (L2) of the sun-earth system.

2. Responsibility

The PLATO was selected by the Science Programme Committee (SPC) at its 143rd

meeting (ESA/SPC(2014)6) and adopted by the SPC during its 154th meeting in June 2017 (ESA/SPC(2017)10).

ESA has the overall responsibility for the PLATO mission design and implementation including the procurement of the launch service.

The scientific payload of PLATO will be developed and provided by a European scientific consortium (the PLATO Mission Consortium). The scientific payload consists of 26 FM Cameras, with Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) as detection elements that are procured by the Agency, in their focal planes. The scientific payload is complemented by the associated digital and analogue electronics.

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The industrial Prime contractor is responsible for the Design, Development (including procurement, manufacturing, assembly, integration, test and verification) and Support to Launch and Post Launch Operations (Phase B2/C/D/E1) of the PLATO Spacecraft accommodating the delivered payload .

3. The Industry Day

Further to the Invitation To Tender (ITT) released by the European Space Agency (ESA) in July 2017, OHB System AG (Germany) has been selected as Prime Contractor of the PLATO space segment for the Implementation phase (B2/C/D/E1).

Therefore OHB has been authorized to proceed with the “Best Practices” procurement process in order to complete the build-up of the spacecraft industrial team for spacecraft related items. This tendering process will be governed by ESA rules which are reported in the “Best practices for the selection of subcontractors by Prime Contractors in the frame of ESA’s major procurements”. This document can be downloaded from EMITS (http://emits.sso.esa.int/ under “Reference Documentation” and “Administrative Documents”).

In advance to the announcement on EMITS of the ITTs, the objective of the PID is to present to the European industry the overall PLATO mission, the associated business opportunities, the bidding process and schedule for the build-up of the PLATO spacecraft industrial team.

Registration details for participation will be published in the coming weeks.

For logistic reasons the participation is limited to 200 people with a maximum of 3 participants per company.

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4. Preliminary Agenda

Day 1

Part I: Plenary session – ESTEC Newton meeting room

9:00 – Visitors entrance and registration

9:30 – ESA presentation

Introduction : objectives & organization of the PID (ESA) PLATO mission (ESA) PLATO System and Space segment (ESA) PLATO programmatics (ESA) PLATO geographic return considerations (ESA) Procurement rules (Best practices, ESA and Industry roles) (ESA) About ECOS (ESA)

10:30 – OHB presentation

PLATO spacecraft (OHB) PLATO development logic : Models, objectives & schedule (OHB) PLATO industrial consortium procurement (OHB) The ITT Process (according to Best Practices) (OHB)

11:30 – Coffee break

12:00 – ITT presentation (OHB)

List and dates of the future ITTs (OHB) Presentation of each ITT (OHB)

12:45 – Logistics for the B2B (ESA)

13 :00 – Lunch

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Part II: Business 2 Business Splinters

14:00 – B2B (All)

17:00 – Day 1 Wrap-up (ESA)

Day 2

9:00 – Visitors entrance

9:30 – B2B (All)

12:45 – Day 2 Wrap-up (ESA)

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Attachment – Preliminary List of ITTs

Procurement Item Issuing Company ITT/RFQ issue

Service Module

Electrical & Power

Battery OHB 2020 Q1

SVM Harness SubSys OHB 2019 Q2

Communication

Communication SubSys OHB 2018 Q4

X-band Transponders COMMS lead

K-band Transmitters COMMS lead

K-band Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier COMMS lead

Antenna

Low Gain Antennas (LGAA) Kongsberg 2019 Q4

K-Band Signal Routing Assembly Kongsberg 2019 Q4

Antenna Reflector Assembly (ARA) Kongsberg 2019 Q4

Antenna TVAC tests Kongsberg 2019 Q4

Sun Shield and Solar Array

Sunshield / Solar Array SubSys OHB 2019 Q2

Photovoltaic Assembly SSH / SA lead

SSH Central Structure SSH / SA lead

Sunshield MLI SSH / SA lead

Sunshield Thermal Sensors SSH / SA lead

Sunshield Heaters SSH / SA lead

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Procurement Item Issuing Company ITT/RFQ issue

Hold-Down & Release Mechanisms SSH / SA lead

Sunshield Harness SSH / SA lead

Propulsion

CPPS SubSys OHB 2018 Q4

Reaction/Orbit Control Thrusters CPPS lead

Propellant Tank CPPS lead

Fill & Drain Valves CPPS lead

Propellant Latch Valve CPPS lead

Pressure Transducer CPPS lead

Propellant Filter CPPS lead

Thermal

SVM MLI OHB 2019 Q3

SVM Heaters OHB 2020 Q3

SVM Thermal Sensors OHB 2020 Q3

Structure

Central Tube S.A.B. Aerospace 2019 Q1

CFRP Panels S.A.B. Aerospace 2020 Q1

Radiator Panels S.A.B. Aerospace 2020 Q1

Machined Parts S.A.B. Aerospace 2020 Q1

SVM STR MGSE S.A.B. Aerospace 2020 Q1

Avionics

Payload Data Storage RUAG Sweden 2018 Q4

Software

ISVV SSF 2019 Q2

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Procurement Item Issuing Company ITT/RFQ issue

AOCS

High Performance Gyro TASinF 2019 Q2

Coarse Rate Sensor TASinF 2019 Q2

Attitude Anomaly Detector TASinF 2019 Q2

Sun Presence Sensor TASinF 2019 Q2

Reaction Wheels TASinF 2019 Q2

Star Tracker TASinF 2019 Q2

Accelerometers TASinF 2019 Q2

Payload Module

PLM Tertiary Structures OHB 2019 Q2

PLM Thermal Sensors OHB 2020 Q3

PLM Heaters OHB 2020 Q3

Service contracts

Mission Analysis OHB 2018 Q4

AIT Support S/C OHB 2020 Q4

Test Facility DMBB OHB 2018 Q4

Test Facility PLM OHB 2020 Q1

Test Facility S/C STM + PFM OHB 2021 Q2

Satellite Database OHB 2020 Q4

MGSE

MGSE Batch 1.1

Transport Container PLM-DMBB OHB 2018 Q4

Integration Base Frame PLM-DMBB OHB 2018 Q4

MGSE Batch 1.2

MGSE Test Rig for Payload Test OHB 2020 Q1

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Procurement Item Issuing Company ITT/RFQ issue

Multi-Purpose Trolley(+) PLM & S/C OHB 2019 Q1

Transport Container SVM & PLM OHB 2019 Q2

Vibration and Thermal Test Adapters PLM OHB 2019 Q2

Integration Base Frame and Lifting Device PLM OHB 2019 Q3

MGSE Batch 2

Multi-Purpose Trolley SVM & S/C OHB 2020 Q1

AIT Integration Stand Central & Avionics Module OHB 2020 Q1

Camera Handling Tool OHB 2020 Q2

Multi-purpose Assembly Plate OHB 2020 Q2

Payload Electronics Panel Tilt Trolley OHB 2020 Q3

Vibration, Acoustic and TVAC Adapters S/C OHB 2020 Q3

Lifting Device for Central Module & S/C OHB 2020 Q4

MPT Interface Ring & AIT Adapter S/C OHB 2020 Q4

AIT Clampband S/C OHB 2021 Q1

Lifting Device for PLM Mating with SVM OHB 2021 Q1

S/C Payload Electronics Panel Tilting Device OHB 2021 Q1

Transport Box AVM OHB 2021 Q3

Harness Support Structure for PLM Harness OHB 2022 Q1

De-Mating Support COM Panel OHB 2024 Q1

EGSE

EGSE Batch 1.1

Camera Thermal Control System EGSE OHB 2018 Q3

EGSE Batch 1.2

EPS Special Check-Out Equipment TASinUK 2019 Q2

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Procurement Item Issuing Company ITT/RFQ issue

CDMS Special Check-Out Equipment TASinUK 2019 Q2

TT&C Special Check-Out Equipment TASinUK 2019 Q2

TMTC Front-end electronics TASinUK 2019 Q2

EGSE Batch 2

RF Suitcase OHB 2021 Q4

OGSE

OGSE Batch 1.1

Alignment reference cubes OHB 2018 Q4

TED Test GSE batch 1.1 OHB 2018 Q4

TED Test GSE batch 1.2 OHB 2019 Q2

MGSE Test Rig for Payload Test OHB 2020 Q1

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