Norbert Frischauf

CERN | CERN · CMS

Planet, Space X, Spire – these are some of the companies that are associated with the term “NewSpace”, calling for a different approach to the way we conduct spaceflight and gain economic benefits from space. What started in the early 2000s with the advent of CubeSats, used primarily in the academic sector, has transformed itself into a powerful pa...

September 11, 2001 marks the date when the power of Earth imagery became obvious to the general public for the first time. Due to the terror attacks on the World Trade Centers and other sites, all airplanes were banned from the US skies for several days. Consequently it was up to Earth Observation satellites like IKONOS and others to provide exclus...

Aircraft parabolic flights are widely used throughout the world to create microgravity environment for scientific and technology research, experiment rehearsal for space missions, and for astronaut training before space flights. As part of the Space Studies Program 2016 of the International Space University summer session at the Technion-Israel Ins...

Aircraft parabolic flights are widely used throughout the world to create microgravity environment for scientific and technology research, experiment rehearsal for space missions, and astronaut training before space flights. The word aircraft is usually associated to motorized airplanes, either large aircrafts like the Airbus A310 ZERO-G of ESA/CNE...

According to Wikipedia, “NewSpace” is an umbrella term for a movement and philosophy that is often affiliated with, but not synonymous with, an emergent private spaceflight industry. Specifically, the term is used to refer to a community of relatively new aerospace companies working to develop low-cost access to space or spaceflight technologies an...

http://rdcu.be/pkAb Aircraft parabolic flights are widely used throughout the world to create microgravity environment for scientific and technology research, experiment rehearsal for space missions, and for astronaut training before spaceflights. As part of the Space Studies Program 2016 of the International Space University summer session at the...

Although hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, its utilization in spacecraft systems has so far been limited to propulsion and power generation systems, of which the first is by far the most important. This chapter first discusses the reasons that make hydrogen on the one hand so attractive and on the other hand so difficult to be...

Stark kommerziell geprägte Geschäftsmodelle haben in der Raumfahrt in den letzten Jahren - insbesondere von den USA unter dem Schlagwort "NewSpace" ausgehend - starken Auftrieb erhalten. Ausgehend vom Silicon Valley äußert sich dies in einem Trend zur Gründung neuer Unternehmen mit hohem privatem Kapitaleinsatz, bei denen Dienste und Nutzerangebot...

The paper examines the different options of one-way and two-way ranging and how a potential next generation GNSS may combine the advantages of both concepts to satisfy the diverse needs of military, civilian and public users.

Compendium of Hydrogen Energy Volume 4: Hydrogen Use, Safety and the Hydrogen Economy focuses on the uses of hydrogen. As many experts believe the hydrogen economy will, at some point, replace the fossil fuel economy as the primary source of the world's energy, this book investigates the uses of this energy, from transport, to stationary and portab...

Am 12. November 2014 kam es zu einem der seltenen Ereignisse in der Welt der Wissenschaft, welche auf der ganzen Welt Beachtung finden. Auf einem schmutzigen Brocken aus Schnee, Eis und Geröll mit der Größe des Mont Blanc und dem Aussehen einer Gummiente kam es zur ersten Lan-dung einer Robotersonde mit dem Namen „Philae“. Philae ist nicht viel grö...

Air transport has become an indispensable part of our modern civilisation. Today there are about 15,000 commercial aircrafts in operation and about 31,000 are envisaged for the year 2030. This growth is fuelled by surging passenger numbers—with recent predictions calling for 220 million airline passengers per year in 2029, while 2009 featured ‘only...

The Passepartout sounding balloon transportation system for low-mass (<1,200 g) experiments or hardware for validation to an altitude of 35km is described. We present the general flight configuration, set-up of the flight control system, environmental and position sensors, power system, buoyancy considerations as well as the ground control infrastr...

Technology Transfer has a long tradition in the areas of space commercialisation and high-tech products/materials. Micro-chips, alloys, solar cells and high-temperature materials are a few representative examples for the extensive knowledge transfer in these areas, which has driven a significant number of the recent technology paradigm shifts world...

We report on the MARS2013 mission, a 4-week Mars analog field test in the northern Sahara. Nineteen experiments were conducted by a field crew in Morocco under simulated martian surface exploration conditions , supervised by a Mission Support Center in Innsbruck, Austria. A Remote Science Support team analyzed field data in near real time, providin...

We report on the MARS2013 mission, a 4-week Mars analog field test in the northern Sahara. Nineteen experiments were conducted by a field crew in Morocco under simulated martian surface exploration conditions, supervised by a Mission Support Center in Innsbruck, Austria. A Remote Science Support team analyzed field data in near real time, providing...

We have developed a portable dual-wavelength laser fluorescence spectrometer as part of a multi-instrument optical probe to characterize mineral, organic, and microbial species in extreme environments. Operating at 405 and 532 nm, the instrument was originally designed for use by human explorers to produce a laser-induced fluorescence emission (L.I...

Martian caves are regarded as one of the most interesting locations in which to search for life on the planet. Data obtained during the MARS2013 expedition at Hamar Laghdad Ridge in the Tafilalt region of Morocco indicate that even small cavities can display thermal behavior that is characteristic for caves. For example, temperature in a cavity equ...

Abstract We report on the MARS2013 mission, a 4-week Mars analog field test in the northern Sahara. Nineteen experiments were conducted by a field crew in Morocco under simulated martian surface exploration conditions, supervised by a Mission Support Center in Innsbruck, Austria. A Remote Science Support team analyzed field data in near real time,...

Storage of gases under pressure, including hydrogen, is a well-known technology. However the use of hydrogen in vehicles at pressures much higher than those applicable in natural gas cars still requires safety and performance studies with respect to the verification and validation of the existing standards and regulations. The JRC-IET has developed...

In February 2013, the Austrian Space Forum - together with more than 20 international partner - conducted a one-month integrated Mars analog �eld simulation in the Moroccan desert near Erfoud. The selected area is considered a relevant proxy for various types of geological features of Mars. Terrain topographies similar to the Martian desert and an...

In February 2013, the MARS2013 Mission was conducted by the Austrian Space Forum in partnership with the Ibn Battuta Center in Marrakesh. MARS2013 was an integrated Mars analogue field simulation during which a small field crew conducted various experiments in the Moroccan desert directed by a Mission Support Centre in Austria. It served as a platf...

In February 2013, the MARS2013 Mission was conducted by the Austrian Space Forum in partnership with the Ibn Battuta Center in Marrakesh. MARS2013 was an integrated Mars analogue field simulation during which a small field crew conducted various experiments in the Moroccan desert directed by a Mission Support Centre in Austria. It served as a platf...

Passepartout Sherpa ist ein Sounding Balloon (Wetterballon) gestütztesTransportsystem, welches kleine, bis zu 1200 g schwere Experimente in die Stratosphäre bringen kann. Die Sherpa Kapsel selbst ist dabei das Telemetry And Command Modul (TAC). Hier sind alle wichtigen Systeme untergebracht, die Positions- und Umweltdaten zur Bodenstation senden un...

Hydrogen will assume a key role in Europe's effort to adopt its energy dependent society to satisfy its needs without releasing vast amounts of greenhouse gases. The paradigm shift is so paramount that one speaks of the “Hydrogen Economy”, as the energy in this new and ecological type of economy is to be distributed by hydrogen. However, H2 is not...

Technology safety represents a key enabling factor for the commercial use of hydrogen within the automotive industry. In the last years considerable pre-normative and normative research effort has produced regulations at national, European and global level, as well as international standards. Their validation is at the moment on going international...

With the beginning of the third millennium of the Common Era, China has grown into a ma-jor player in the global space markets, show-casing specific domains of excellence through its ambitious space programmes, fuelled by investments in defence and institutional pro-grammes. As it stands right now, the Dragon Nation has committed sufficient resourc...

More than 60 years after the late Nobel laureate Hannes Alfve´n had published a letter stating that oscillating magnetic fields can accelerate ionised matter via magneto– hydrodynamic interactions in a wave like fashion, the technical implementation of Alfve´n waves for propulsive purposes has been proposed, patented and examined for the first time...

After several laboratory and precursor field tests of the Aouda.X spacesuit simulator, in conjunction with various biological and geophysical experiments, a five-day test series was conducted at the Rio Tinto Mars-analogue site in southern Spain. In the framework of the PolAres programme of the Austrian Space Forum, a first test of the Phileas rove...

Exploration has been a buzzword over centuries, ranging from the early naval endeavours in the 15th century to the space missions of our days. Throughout the centuries, exploration could be best described as the act of searching or travelling around a terrain for the purpose of discovery of resources or information 2 . It were the early exploration...

Satellite Navigation might not provide for glossy pictures as Earth Observation does, nor can it (yet) allow for commercial profits as we see nowadays with satellite telecommunications, but it surely has one thing that the two other applications do not have: a name! GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, Compass -all these names represent Global Navigation Satelli...

Friday, the 3 rd of July 2009, saw Wiki news stating the following 1 : "ESA launches the largest commercial telecom satellite" and further "The TerreStar-1, an American communications satellite operated by TerreStar Corporation was launched Wednesday by an Ariane 5ECA rocket at 17:52 GMT by the European Space Agency (ESA) from the ELA-3 at the Guia...

Am 4. Oktober 2007, am Tag genau 50 Jahre nach dem Start von Sputnik 1 erfolgte der Start des ersten Stratosphärenballons des ÖWF. Ursprünglich als “One Shot Mission” geplant, entwickelte sich die Passepartout Serie zu einem fixen Bestandteil des PolAres Programms. Das Ziel ist es wissenschaftliche Experimente in die mittlere Stratosphäre zu bringe...

After a series of seven field tests of the Aouda.X spacesuit simulator, in conjunction with biological and geophysical experiments, a five-day test series was conducted at the Rio Tinto Mars-analogue site in southern Spain. In the framework of the PolAres program of the Austrian Space Forum, a first test of the Phileas rover prototype was accomplis...

When we refer to “space”, we think of something distant. Astronauts have to “travel” until they are “in space”, the “sky is the limit”, and the quaint objects populating space are definitely “out of this world”. This notion is understandable. And it is wrong. The great scientist Fred Hoyle puts it to the test when he says: “Space isn’t remote at al...

Hydrogen will assume a key role in Europe's effort to adopt its energy dependent society to satisfy its needs without releasing vast amounts of Greenhouse Gases (GHG), which are seen as the major cause for the change in the Earth's climate. The paradigm shift is so paramount that one speaks of the "Hydrogen Economy", as the energy in this new and e...

The invention relates to a method and a device for generating Alfvén waves, in which ionizable material is provided that penetrates a magnetic field. In order to create such a method or a device in which material can be conveyed based on the Alfvén waves, the magnetic field consists of a primary magnetic field that is periodically deformed by at le...

The invention relates to a method for operating a plasma burner (1) for machining electrically conductive workpieces (2), wherein a gas (G) is fed to the workpiece (2) in a bundled manner by a jet source (3), and the gas jet (GS) is ionized by means of an arc (L) ignited between at least one electrode (4) and the workpiece (2), thereby forming a pl...

More than 60 years after the later Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén had published a letter stating that oscillating magnetic fields can accelerate ionised matter via magneto-hydrodynamic interactions in a wave like fashion, the technical implementation of Alfvén waves for propulsive purposes has been proposed, patented and examined for the first time b...

More than 60 years after the later Nobel laureate Hannes Alfvén had published a letter stating that oscillating magnetic fields can accelerate ionised matter via magneto‐hydrodynamic interactions in a wave like fashion, the technical implementation of Alfvén waves for propulsive purposes has been proposed, patented and examined for the first time...

AustroMars was the simulation of a crewed expedition on the surface of planet Mars, which took place in April 2006 at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. A crew of six carefully selected individuals performed 20 experiments in the fields of robotics, analogue planetary and life sciences as well as human exploration.

More than 60 years after the later Nobel laureate Hannes Alfven had published a letter stating that oscillating magnetic fields can accelerate ionised matter via magneto-hydrodynamic interactions in a wave like fashion, the technical implementation of Alfven waves for propulsive purposes has been proposed, patented and examined for the first time b...

Humanity has started to explore space more than 40 years ago. Numerous spacecraft have left the Earth in this endeavour, but while unmanned spacecraft were already sent out on missions, where they would eventually reach the outer limits of the Solar System, manned exploration has always been confined to the tiny bubble of the Earth's gravitational...

LunarSat is a proposal to send a 120 microprobe into lunar orbit to investigate the suitability of the lunar south pole areas for a permanent human presence. One of the main goals is to involve more than 50000 youngsters into the endavour and investigate new ways of lunar science communication. The preliminary results of several pilot init iatives...

This paper presents the navigation and communication system of the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle). The ATV is a project of ESA, intended to re-supply and re-boost the International Space Station (ISS). What makes this project so special is that for the first time a spacecraft will initiate and commence a docking maneuver in fully autonomous mode,...

The Fourth International Conference on the Exploration and Utilisation of the Moon (ICEUM4) at ESTEC in July 2000 was organised by the International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG) and ESA. The conference had a broad content including future missions such as ESA's SMART-1 mission and the Japanese Lunar-A and SELENE projects, technology supp...

We present here highlights and recommendations from the ILEWG organized ICEUM4 meeting held in the Netherlands in July 2000

The DELPHI Silicon Tracker, an ensemble of microstrips, ministrips and pixels, was completed in 1997 and has accumulated over of high-energy data. The Tracker is optimised for the LEP2 physics programme. It consists of a silicon microstrip barrel and endcaps with layers of silicon pixel and ministrip detectors. In the barrel part, three-dimensional...

The DELPHI Silicon Tracker, an ensemble of microstrips, ministrips and pixels, was completed in 1997 and has accumulated over $70~{\rm pb^{-1}}$ of high energy data. The Tracker is optimised for the LEP2 physics programme. It consists of a silicon microstrip barrel and endcaps with layers of silicon pixel and ministrip detectors. In the barrel part...

LunARSat, the Lunar Academic and Research Satellite, is a micro-spacecraft that will be sent into an orbit around the Moon to perform scientific investigations concerning the lunar environment and its characteristics. However, the prime objective of the LunARSat mission is to serve as an educational and outreach project. LunARSat is designed by you...