ESMATS 2023

20th European Space Mechanisms
and Tribology Symposium
Organised by Astronika Sp z o.o.
20th - 22nd September, 2023
AGENDA
Day 1 | Session 1 – Satellite Docking, Capturing and Connecting Mechanisms | Session 2 – Tribology & Materials 1 |
Session 3 – Deployables 1 | Session 4 – Components 1 / Poster Pitches #1 | |
Day 2 | Session 5 – Tribology & Materials 2 | Session 6 – Components 2 |
Session 7 – Pointing Mechanisms | Session 8 – Positioning & Stabilization Mechanisms / Poster Pitches #2 | |
Day 3 | Session 9 – Various Mechanisms | Session 10 – Deployables 2 |
Posters | – Posters |
DAY-1: Wednesday 20th September, 2023 | |||||
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Time | Paper Title | Author / Session Chair | Affiliation | Country | Paper |
8h00 - 18h00 | Registration | ||||
8h00 - 8h45 | Presenters' breakfast (including authors' preparation) | ||||
Welcome and Introduction | |||||
9h00 | Welcome, general info, Programme | Lionel Gaillard | ESA/ESTEC | ||
Marta Tokarz | Astronika | ||||
9h20 | Direction Space - Bold decisions. Precise solutions. Excellence in implementation | Marta Kolibabska | Ministry of Economic Development and Technology Head of Space Policy Unit | ||
9h35 | Space Technologies in Poland – 50 years of flight hardware experience and new opportunities | Adam Okniński | Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation Director of Space Technologies Center Vice president of Committee on Space Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences | ||
Session 1: Satellite Docking, Capturing and Connecting Mechanisms | Beata Wiertel | SENER | POL | ||
10h00 | Mathematic modelling, simulation, test and correlation of a capture before contact docking mechanism | Alejandro Lazaro | SENER ESP | ESP | ![]() |
10h20 | Lessons Learned from Design and Qualification of the Structural, Power, and Data Port (SPDP) | Jordan Schlater | Sierra Space | USA | ![]() |
10h40 | Concept, Development and Breadboard Testing of Innovative Launch Adapter Ring Modular Gripper (LAR-MG) for Satellite Robotic Capture | Jacek Musiał | Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation | POL | ![]() |
11h00 | Design and development of a robotic gripper for capturing prepared and unprepared satellites | Łukasz Kozłowski | PIAP Space | POL | ![]() |
11h20 | 30 min Coffee Break | Top | |||
Session 2:Tribology & Materials 1 | Robert Paul | OHB | GER | ||
11h50 | Guidelines for Qualification and Space Application of New Fluid Lubricants | Anthony Kent | ESTL | GBR | ![]() |
12h10 | Tribological Performance of Gelled Oils for Space Mechanisms Lubrication | 1. Mathieu Lambert 2.Guillaume Colas | InS | FRA | ![]() |
12h30 | Tribological and Bearing Performance of a New Variant of Cronidur X30 Steel with Improved Resistance to SCC | Andreas Merstallinger | AAC | AUT | ![]() |
12h50 | Cold Welding and Friction in Vacuum of Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG) Made by Powder Based Processes for Use in Space | Andreas Merstallinger | AAC | AUT | ![]() |
13h10 | 60 min Lunch Break | Top | |||
Session 3: Deployables 1 | Jonathan Wood | / Lockheed Martin | USA | ||
14h10 | RWI Tubular Boom Antennas - Lessons Learned from the Development of a Flight Model for the ESA Juice Mission | Łukasz Wiśniewski | Astronika | POL | ![]() |
14h30 | Development of PROBA-3 Solar Array Deployment and Hold-Down & Release Mechanisms and Lessons Learnt | Katarzyna Okulska-Gawlik | SENER PL | POL | ![]() |
14h50 | Design Improvements of a 2-DoF Translational Flexible Joint for Flexible Compact Arrays (FCA) | Gerwin Lapoutre | AIRBUS NL | NLD | ![]() |
15h10 | Novel Concepts for On-Ground Deployment Testing of Large Antenna Structures | Christian Freier | AIRBUS DE | DEU | ![]() |
15h30 | 30 min Coffee Break | Top | |||
Session 4 : Components 1 / Poster Pitches #1 | Bartosz Kędziora | ASTRONIKA | POL | ||
16h00 | Slipring made by additive manufacturing: from redesign to validation test results | Lionel Kiener | CSEM | CHE | ![]() |
16h20 | Integrated Flex Pivot Position Sensor | Peter Spanoudakis | CSEM | CHE | ![]() |
16h40 | Development of Non-Pyrotechnic Hold Down and Release Mechanisms for the James Webb Space Telescope | Phil Venti | Ensign Bickford Aerospace & Defense | USA | ![]() |
17h00 | Poster Pitches #1 (45 mins) | ||||
18h00 | Invited Speech: JUICE RIME Boom Deployment anomaly recovery | 1. Ronan Le Letty 2. Bernhard Doll | 1. ESA/ESTEC 2. SpaceTech | NLD DEU | ![]() |
19h00 - 21h00 | Cocktail Reception – downstairs from Conference & Exhibition Area | Top | |||
DAY-2: Thursday 21st September, 2023 | |||||
Time | Paper Title | Author / Session Chair | Affiliation | Country | |
8h00 - 18h00 | Registration | ||||
8h00 - 8h45 | Presenters' breakfast (including authors' preparation) | ||||
Session 5: Tribology & Materials 2 | Peter Spanoudakis | CSEM | CHE | ||
9h00 | Novel testing of fluid lubricants for Space applications at low temperatures | Anthony Kent | ESTL | GBR | ![]() |
9h20 | Inspection of Separable Surfaces - Lessons Learned | Sebastian Schwarz | AIRBUS DE | DEU | ![]() |
9h40 | MoS2(Ti, W) Coatings as Surface Modification of Friction Pairs Operating in Vacuum and Dusty Lunar Atmosphere | Marcin Makówka | Lodz University of Technology | POL | ![]() |
10h00 | Pennzane(TM) Lubricant Compositions: The Pros and Cons of “Heritage” Technology | Amanda Stubbs | Nye Lubricants | USA | ![]() |
10h20 | Extending Gearbox Life in Cryogenic Vacuum Environment by Applying Powder Lubrication to Strain Wave Gearing | Shogo Kusabe | JAXA | JPN | ![]() |
10h40 | Fretting Wear Anomaly of Final CubeSat Ejection Tests: expertise, solution testing, and lessons learned | Guillaume Colas | FEMTO-ST | FRA | ![]() |
11h00 | 40 min Coffee Break | Top | |||
Session 6: Components 2 | Alessandro Bursi | OHB | ITA | ||
11h40 | Reed: The Manual | Mathieu Robroek | AIRBUS NL | NLD | ![]() |
12h00 | Development and manufacture of a proof-of-concept magnetically-geared actuator for use in extremely cold lunar environments | Justin Scheidler | NASA | USA | ![]() |
12h20 | Reaction Wheel Actuator Development: Jumping from Hundreds to Thousands | Adam Wade | Rocket Lab | NZL | ![]() |
12h40 | Applying Industrial Standard Development Techniques to Modified COTS Motors for use in Space - an Example Based on the Ingenuity Swashplate Motors | Robin Phillips | Maxon | CHE | ![]() |
13h00 | 60 min Lunch Break | Top | |||
Session 7: Pointing Mechanisms | Dorota Budzyń | ATG for ESA | NLD | ||
14h00 | The HySICS Pointing System: a Two-Axis Gimbal Mounted to the ISS | 1. Rick Rainy 2. Pat Brown 3. Ryan Lewis | Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, UC Boulder | USA | ![]() |
14h20 | Development of a Flight Demonstration Coarse Pointing Mechanism for GEO-Ground Optical Communication Terminal | Damien Blattes | AIRBUS FR | FRA | ![]() |
14h40 | ETHM (Electrical Thruster Mechanism) Development | Matthias Favrel | TAS-F | FRA | ![]() |
15h00 | Flex-Capsules for the Roman Space Telescope High Gain Antenna Gimbal | Kenneth Blumenstock | NASA | USA | ![]() |
15h20 | 30 min Coffee Break | Top | |||
Session 8 : Positioning & Stabilization Mechanisms / Poster Pitches #2 | Beat Zahnd | BEYOND GRAVITY | CHE | ||
15h50 | Active balancing system for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) instrument: system design and breadboarding results | Tharek Mohtar | OHB IT | ITA | ![]() |
16h10 | Hexapod Linear Actuator development for the ATHENA spacecraft | 1. Tomasz Kuciński 2. Beata Kunicka | 1. Astronika 2. AIRBUS DE | POL DEU | ![]() |
16h30 | Optimal Design of a Semi-active Isolation Hexapod Platform | Guglielmo Aglietti | Te Pūnaha Ātea - Space Institute The University of Auckland | NZL | ![]() |
16h50 | Poster Pitches #2 (40 mins) | ||||
18h20 | Optional Tour of the Royal Castle (limited places) - 30 mins | ||||
19h00 | Arrival drinks | ||||
19h30 - 22h30 | Gala dinner at Arkady Kubickiego | Top | |||
DAY-3: Friday 22nd September, 2023 | |||||
Time | Paper Title | Author / Session Chair | Affiliation | Country | |
8h40 - 14h30 | Registration | ||||
8h00 - 8h45 | Presenters' breakfast (including authors' preparation) | ||||
Session 9 : Various Mechanisms | Sebastian Schwarz | AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE DE | DEU | ||
9h00 | Tape Deployment Mechanism for Spacecraft Deorbiting | Asier Ortega | SENER ESP | ESP | ![]() |
9h20 | The Importance of Low Level Random for Resonance Search in Space Mechanisms | Sarah Battige | Beyond Gravity | CHE | ![]() |
9h40 | Lessons Learned from Evaluation and Mitigation of Space Charging Threat Due to Use of Isolated (Hybrid) Bearings on the PACE Ocean Color Instrument | 1. Konrad Bergandy 2. Claef Hakun | NASA | USA | ![]() |
10h00 | Development and Qualification of the Eurostar Neo Solar Array Drive Mechanism | Joshua Lurie | AIRBUS UK | GBR | ![]() |
10h20 | Multiple Hold Down Separation Device for Dispensers (MSD) | 1. Jose Luis Mora Plaza 2. Alvaro Mediero Toledano | AIRBUS ESP | ESP | ![]() |
10h40 | EE9 FORUM Interferometer Mechanism Assembly: design and testing of a flight-like engineering model | Roberta Alò | OHB System AG | DEU | ![]() |
11h00 | 30 min Coffee Break | Top | |||
Session 10 : Deployables 2 | Frederic Courtade | CNES | FRA | ||
11h30 | Mechanical Design and Technology Demonstration of an Offset reflector Antenna | Angelika Skrzyńska | Oxford Space Systems | GBR | ![]() |
11h50 | Miniature Motorized Antenna for Low-Frequency Radar of the Hera-Juventas Mission | Dominik Nolbert | Astronika | POL | ![]() |
12h10 | Modelling of Solar Array Wing Deployment Using a Hybrid Matlab/Simulink Approach and correlation with Measured Wing Performances | 1. Héloïse Boross 2. Philipp Schmidheiny | Beyond Gravity | CHE | ![]() |
12h30 | MaD: A Lightweight & Cost-effective Telescopic Mast for Next Generations of Deployable Appendages | Adrien Moraine | AIRBUS FR | FRA | ![]() |
Closing remarks, symposium summary | |||||
12h50 | Closing remarks, symposium summary | ||||
AMS 2024 + ESMATS 2025 Announcements | |||||
Best Paper Award Presentation | |||||
13h15 | 60 min Lunch Break | Top | |||
14h30 | Buses leave for Astronika visit (tour ends ~16:30, visitor transported back to Chopin Airport or Conference Venue) |