Scientists from Atos engage in HERA mission to preserve the planet from asteroid collision

Bucharest, Romania and Paris, France – December two, 2020,

Atos now announces that a crew of digital transformation experts from Atos Romania are using section in HERA, the to start with planetary protection mission of the European Area Company (ESA) in collaboration with NASA, which aims to ascertain how asteroids can be deflected so that they do not strike Earth.

HERA is unparalleled in its scientific and specialized aims and will bring the to start with constructing blocks of a planetary protection functionality. It aims to ascertain whether or not the maneuver of diverting a harmful asteroid from its collision course with Earth is the suitable strategy to deploy to avert a genuine risk and will start a deflection take a look at to come across out.

In the course of the HERA mission, a crew of experts and experts from Atos in Romania will take a look at the info manipulation programs on board of the area probe through the assembly methods and integration and verification methods. They will also help flight software package advancement, the loading and execution monitoring interfaces, as effectively as the diagnostic interfaces for the flight processor. The multi-disciplinary crew contains Atos experts in style, advancement, validation and integration of software package and components remedies, primarily in the parts of radio frequencies and power circuits.

“The HERA mission is a key phase in guarding our earth, and Romania will add decisively to the world protection work. This mission represents an vital progress in developing the ability of the national industry to get section in deep-area missions. Through this expedition to a binary technique of asteroids, as effectively as the experimental route deviation of a single of them and the watchful observation of the end result, area exploration is reaching a new milestone in human record“, reported Marius-Ioan Piso, President of the Romanian Area Company (ROSA).

“The Atos crew from Brașov has been operating for several a long time alongside one another with ESA to have out a variety of area missions and add to the evolution of mission arranging and manage programs. Having said that, this is the to start with time we are using section in a “Planetary Protection” mission which delivers us new specialized troubles, but also the fulfillment that we can do our section to save the earth in addition to our endeavours in digitization and decarbonization. We are effectively knowledgeable that there is no Earth B“, reported Günther Lackner, VP, GM & World wide Head of BU Area & Avionics at Atos.

Atos Romania is a critical competency centre for Atos Area world remedies, a reliable associate in the journey to Area. Atos in Romania has extensive working experience in the fields of Electric Floor Aid Gear (EGSE), Mission Command Techniques (MCS), Floor Stations (GS) and Federated Identity Management (FIM). EGSE routines carried out by Atos in Romania consist of the validation of radio-frequency, satellite communications components, verification of area shuttle devices and info flows, simulation of communications with ground stations, verification and electrical programs (solar panels, batteries, etc.), central coordination programs for verification and manage devices.

Specialists from Atos in Romania have by now contributed to a variety of other considerable ESA & non-ESA missions, such as Euclid, Juice, Proba-three, MetOpSG, Plato, Sentinel 5 & six and OneWeb.

Much more facts about Atos’ remedies for area & avionics : https://atos.internet/en/remedies/aerospace-protection-electronics

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Much more facts on HERA

The HERA mission is section of the global AIDA (Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment) application, formulated in collaboration with NASA, responsible for conducting the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Exam) area take a look at.
There are two methods in the mission:

• In July up coming 12 months the DART satellite will be released and directed to strike the Didymoon asteroid (165m diameter), a all-natural satellite of the much larger asteroid Didymos (775m diameter)which represents a possible possibility to Earth. Gurus estimate that DART will strike the asteroid in September 2022.
• In October 2024, three HERA satellites will be released to examine the “criminal offense scene”. They ought to get there in the vicinity of Didymoon in January 2027 to gather and examine vital info which will enable experts greater understand the composition and construction of asteroids and to build new technologies and strategies to deviate them.

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