ADEO – Aerodynamic Deorbit System for Satellites
- Paper number
IAC-24,A6,5,10,x86837
- Author
Dr. Liesbeth Arnouts, HPS GmbH, Germany
- Coauthor
Dr. Ernst K. Pfeiffer, HPS GmbH, Germany
- Year
2024
- Abstract
Regulations for deorbiting of satellites after completing their missions are getting more stringent across all space fairing nations. HPS offers a family of dragsail systems with the name ADEO that allow passive deorbiting of satellites in compliance with these new regulations by utilizing the residual atmosphere in LEO. The ADEO family consists of ADEO-P (1.4 m\textsuperscript{2}), ADEO-C (3.4 m\textsuperscript{2}), ADEO-N (5 m\textsuperscript{2}), ADEO-M (15 m\textsuperscript{2}) and ADEO-L (25 m\textsuperscript{2}). All sail areas are scalable in a certain range to give best performance depending on the satellite design and its mission. ADEO-N has already flight heritage in its version ADEO-N2 as it is currently deorbiting a satellite. ADEO-L finished its qualification campaign in December 2023 and will be integrated on the host satellite in 2024. In this paper, we present telemetry from a currently deorbiting satellite with a deployed ADEO-N2 throughout a period of 1.5 years which proves the effectiveness of our dragsail systems. A comparison with predictions outlines the performance of ADEO-N2 and the need to be conservative in simulations. A report on the on the environmental qualification campaign of ADEO-L is also highlighted in this paper. The description of derivatives of ADEO shows the potential of our systems. An additional advantage of ADEO is that its application is not limited to deorbiting as ADEO-L is also proposed to be used for detection of space debris and information about this possibility will be presented. Also, active deorbiting is a promising implementation of ADEO on missions. At last, this paper gives an overview of the current regulations regarding clean space and rules for deorbiting.- Abstract document
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