Duration: 6 months
Thales Alenia Space will make a preliminary design for a Recycling Space Plant. The idea here and core activity is to define and propose a design and concept of operations for a Recycling Space Plant involving a solar furnace for material melting.
Design For Circularity: aiming to identify the materials and methods for on-orbit recycling as well as the impact in the spacecraft design for recyclability. The idea and core activity is to explore the ways to enable Design For Circularity initiative from the materials selection and satellite design point of view to feed a comprehensive orbital recycling capability. The activity will be led by Thales Alenia Space Observation and Science Domain in France, more specifically by the Future Satellite Systems Department. Thales Alenia Space teams have been working on large space infrastructures and on orbit manufacturing, assembly and recycling for several ESA, EC and CNES studies. It is supported by PROMES Laboratory of CNRS, which brings its expertise in solar furnaces employment for research on materials and space applications.
