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

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

Atos nowadays announces that a team of digital transformation professionals from Atos Romania are having element in HERA, the very first planetary defense mission of the European Place Company (ESA) in collaboration with NASA, which aims to identify how asteroids can be deflected so that they do not strike Earth.

HERA is unparalleled in its scientific and specialized aims and will deliver the very first constructing blocks of a planetary safety capability. It aims to identify whether the maneuver of diverting a risky asteroid from its collision training course with Earth is the ideal technique to deploy to protect against a true threat and will launch a deflection check to find out.

In the course of the HERA mission, a team of scientists and professionals from Atos in Romania will check the information manipulation devices on board of the area probe through the assembly strategies and integration and verification measures. They will also help flight software package advancement, the loading and execution checking interfaces, as well as the diagnostic interfaces for the flight processor. The multi-disciplinary team features Atos professionals in style, advancement, validation and integration of software package and hardware alternatives, specially in the areas of radio frequencies and electrical power circuits.

“The HERA mission is a key step in shielding our earth, and Romania will lead decisively to the global defense effort and hard work. This mission signifies an important progress in developing the capacity of the countrywide business to consider element in deep-area missions. Through this expedition to a binary method of asteroids, as well as the experimental route deviation of one of them and the mindful observation of the consequence, area exploration is reaching a new milestone in human background“, mentioned Marius-Ioan Piso, President of the Romanian Place Company (ROSA).

“The Atos team from Brașov has been doing the job for several many years with each other with ESA to have out different area missions and lead to the evolution of mission setting up and command devices. However, this is the very first time we are having element in a “Planetary Protection” mission which provides us new specialized issues, but also the pleasure that we can do our element to preserve the earth in addition to our endeavours in digitization and decarbonization. We are well aware that there is no World B“, mentioned Günther Lackner, VP, GM & World-wide Head of BU Place & Avionics at Atos.

Atos Romania is a essential competency middle for Atos Place global alternatives, a trustworthy husband or wife in the journey to Place. Atos in Romania has extensive experience in the fields of Electrical Floor Help Machines (EGSE), Mission Command Programs (MCS), Floor Stations (GS) and Federated Identity Management (FIM). EGSE pursuits carried out by Atos in Romania include things like the validation of radio-frequency, satellite communications elements, verification of area shuttle devices and information flows, simulation of communications with floor stations, verification and electrical devices (solar panels, batteries, and so on.), central coordination devices for verification and command devices.

Experts from Atos in Romania have presently contributed to different other considerable ESA & non-ESA missions, this sort of as Euclid, Juice, Proba-three, MetOpSG, Plato, Sentinel five & six and OneWeb.

More details about Atos’ alternatives for area & avionics : https://atos.internet/en/alternatives/aerospace-defense-electronics

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More details on HERA

The HERA mission is element of the global AIDA (Asteroid Effects & Deflection Assessment) application, produced in collaboration with NASA, liable for conducting the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Check) area check.
There are two measures in the mission:

• In July future yr the DART satellite will be released and directed to strike the Didymoon asteroid (165m diameter), a pure satellite of the much larger asteroid Didymos (775m diameter)which signifies a probable hazard to Earth. Experts estimate that DART will strike the asteroid in September 2022.
• In October 2024, three HERA satellites will be released to analyze the “criminal offense scene”. They should get there in the vicinity of Didymoon in January 2027 to collect and analyze important information which will aid scientists much better realize the composition and construction of asteroids and to create new technologies and strategies to deviate them.

About Atos

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