The activities in the SPACE sector concern Systems for Access to Airspace, Satellites and Systems for Exploration, Space Propulsion Systems, On-board Systems, Sustainability, reliability and safety.

The Systems for Access to Airspace and Exploration at CIRA are for increasing and consolidating knowledge of systems and space technologies for access, re-entry and operating missions in LEO orbit and interplanetary missions to the Moon and Mars.

With regard to Propulsion Systems, Europe plays a key role in the field of launchers, and Italy, in turn, plays a significant role in the development of small launchers. In the context of the development programme of the Vega launcher (launcher for satellites weighing up to 1,500 kg in LEO orbit), CIRA is committed to certain technological drivers. In fact, the HYPROB programme, assigned to CIRA by MIUR, aims to make the Centre a structure of excellence on a European level, with the training of highly qualified personnel and the development of advanced technologies.

CIRA is also committed to the development and validation of enabling technologies for autonomous GNC systems for re-entry and launching missions, and cooperative control systems for mini and micro satellites. These technologies, relating to On-board Systems, are being further developed to guarantee higher than average levels of operational precision, reaction times compatible with the high levels of energy and speed involved, and autonomous self-diagnostics and management compatible with limited (or no) human-machine interaction.

In the case of Sustainability, Reliability and Safety, CIRA is involved in Integrity Engineering and autonomous systems for critical missions.

IRON - Innovative turbopROp configuratioN

LED - Long Endurance Demonstrator

SHAFT - SyntHetic jet Actuators for Flow conTrol

FTB4UAS Flight Test Bed For UAS

SIMACE - System for monitoring of environmental conditions in hostile conditions

SMAF – Smart AirFrame

AIRGREEN 2 - Morphing Wing Technology

CAPRI Carrello per Atterraggio con Attuazione Intelligente

CERVIA - Innovative methods for Design and Certification of advanced aircraft composite structures

GAINS - Green AIrframe Icing Novel System

AIRONE - Cheap Online Weather Information Service for the Personal Air Vehicles sector

CTNA TILTROTOR FX

MISE - Applications for electronics of not piloted aircraft

CASTLE - CAbin Systems design Toward passenger welLbEing

COAST - COst-effective Avionic SysTem

DANTE - Development of Aero-vibro-acoustics Numerical and Technical Expertise

FLPP3-DOC Demise Observation Capsule

HEXAFLY-INT - High-Speed Experimental Fly Vehicles-International

INTERSTADIO GRID - The Interstage 2/3 of the new European launcher, VEGA C

ISAA – Imaging antenna System based on Aperiodic feeding Arrays

LIPROM – Liquid Propulsion Research on Oxygen Methane

ASCI - Safety-critical interoperability applications amongst autonomous heterogeneous systems

BIG DATA FACILITY

MIDA - Photo-interpretation with high resolution optical satellite images

CAPPADOCIA - Coordination Action Pro “Production, Avionics, Design” on Cost-efficiency in Aeronautics

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