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Meet the Expert: Dr. Carsten Scharlemann

The Head of the Aerospace Engineering Programme at Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt will talk about Field Emission Electric Propulsion and its integration on the CubeSat CLIMB

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29.01.2024 von 18:00 bis 19:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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Hörsaalgebäude Physik (Heinrich-Buff-Ring 14), Hörsaal III

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  • Montag, 29. Januar 2024, 18:00-19:00
  • Hörsaalgebäude Physik, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 14
  • Hörsaal III
  •  Promovierende, PostDocs, Masterstudierende
  • Dr. Carsten Scharlemann (Head of Aerospace Engineering Programme, Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt)
  • Englisch

 

Dr. Carsten Scharlemann

(Head of Aerospace Engineering Programme, Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt)
 
 Dr. Carsten Scharlemann established the first and only Aerospace Engineering department in Austria and is since then the head of the Aerospace Engineering Programme. He was the project manager of the micro-propulsion development for ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission and for the development of the charge balance devices for the ESA/NASA mission MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission) and he initiated the Nanosatellite program of the FHWN and subsequently managed Austria’s first university CubeSat mission (PEGASUS). Dr. Scharlemann is now the project manager for the CubeSat project CLIMB.
 

 

Field Emission Electric Propulsion and its integration on the CubeSat CLIMB
 

CubeSats have not only proven themselves as important tool in education over the last 15+ years but are also exploited to extend mission capabilities for large scale missions such as the NASA mission InSight to Mars and many other present and future missions.  Very early on, it was clear that the mission range of CubeSats could be significantly extended if they have dv capability. However, integration of electric propulsion systems in CubeSats was for a long time an unsolved problem. Main reasons for this included size, extensive (for CubeSats) power requirements, relative large thermal load on the CubeSat etc. etc. By now, several propulsion systems for CubeSats have been proposed and a small number of them have even succeeded in gathering space experience. However, no system has been as successful as the Field Emission Electric Propulsion (FEEP) System from the company ENPULSION. Their system has been flown nearly 200 times in CubeSats and Microsats.

The new CubeSat mission CLIMB of the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt (FHWN) is exploiting this and cooperates with ENPULSION. The challenge is to use a FEEP to raise the orbit altitude of CLIMB from an initial 500 km to 1000 or 1500 km. At this altitude the spacecraft will enter the Van Allen Belt, a region with significantly increased level of space radiation. Upon arrival and for about 6 months after that, CLIMB will conduct radiation monitoring and mapping of Earth’s magnetic field. Following this science phase, the spacecraft’s orbit altitude will then be slowly reduced until it enters the thicker part of the atmosphere and burn up.