the topic is made to show you what is actually happening the world regarding space systems.

2. “RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN
SPACE SYSTEMS”

3. Team Members:
Sheikh Maryam SS15-10
Ammara Khalid SS15-14
Sumar Farooq SS15-09
Salah uh din SS15-29

4. Under the supervision of:
“Sir Jahanzaib Qureshi”
Assistant Professor
Department of Space Science
University of Punjab Lahore

5. Why we intended to choose this topic???
“The purpose for choosing this topic is to manifest what is actually
happening around the world regarding space systems.
A joint effort is made to show about the latest technologies that change
the arena of space systems.”

6. Table of Contents
 What is Space System???
 Recent developments in space system
agencies:
• ISRO
• NASA and Space X
• ESA
• JAXA
• Chinese
• New Zealand
 NASA and Russia are building a new space station

7. What is space system???
“A space system basically contains all devices
and organizations that forms a space network.”
It may contain:
• Space segment and ground segment.
• Data links among spacecraft, mission or user
terminals.
 Space systems centers including NASA,
ESA and ROSCOSMOS etc.

9. “ISRO” RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS IN SPACE
SYSTEM

10. • PSLV take off from India Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Feb. 15,2017.
• These contain three satellites from India and 101 smaller nano satellites (Doves) from five other
countries which include:
• The U.S. ,The Netherlands, Israel, Kazakhstan and Switzerland.
India launches “record-breaking” 104 satellites in
single flight.

11. “NASA” AND “SPACE X”
RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS IN
SPACE SYSTEM

12. Solar Electrical Propulsion(SEP)
 Consumes 10 times less propellant than
conventional chemical propulsion system.
 Cost savings
 More safe and secure
 More reliable
 More superior propulsion power.
 Figure descripts: Solar Electrical Propulsion at NASA

13. Re-Useable launch System
• Achieved successful landing and recovery of
first stage in December 2015.
• Cost of access to space.
• Safely complete its main goal even in the case
of one engine shutdown.

15. New Horizons; Exploring Pluto and Beyond
• 3 billion miles from earth.
• Launched in 2006
• Visited Pluto in 2015.
• Mountain range on Pluto (11000 feet)
• Icy Volcanoes contains nitrogen, CO and
Water slurries.
• Gases escaped from Pluto and accreted on
Charon’s surface.
CHARON,
PLUTO’S MOON
ICY VOLCANO ON PLUTO’S
SURFACE

16. After 11 years in exile; Pluto become a planet again!!!
• In 2006, Pluto was eliminated from the planets by IAU.
• Body should be orbit around earth,
• Circular shape.
• 11 years later, Alan Stern (New Horizons Principle Investigator) proposed.
• Having substellar body and assumed a spheroidal shape

17. World’s largest solar sail (Sunjammer)
• Ultra thin, highly reflective material.
• Hitting of photons with mirror like surface could
transfer momentum.
• Propellant-free space craft.
• 13,000 square feet, seven times larger than even
before.
• Can achieve a distance of 240,000 kilometers per
hour.
FIGURE DESCRIPTS= Solar Cells exploring the Earth

18. LDSD For Mars Landing
• LDSD (Low density Supersonic Decelerator).
• Technique used the atmospheric drag for the
landing of launch vehicles/payload.
• Recently capable of lifting two to three tons
of payload.
• Increases landing accuracy from the margin of
10 to 3km’s.
• Save the rocket engines and fuel for
maneuvering and land procedures.
• How is it works???
Figure descripts: Supersonic parachute at Mars
Science Laboratory NASA.

20. “ESA
DEVELOPMENTS IN
SPACE SYSTEM”

21. • What is Relay satellite?
• Why we need it and how it works?
• (EDRD) launch by the ARTES program of ESA.
• Similar to the (ATDRSS)
• THEN WHAT IS NEW?
• Transmits 1.8 Gbit/s across 45,000 km.
• SPACE SEGMENT
• Eutelsat 9B (launched in January 2016, at 9 degree E
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
• Real time access
• High data rates
• Encrypted data down link
• Fast forward commanding
capability
European data relay satellite (EDRS)

23. “CHINESE”
DEVELOPMENT
IN SPACE SYSTEM

24. Lasers instead of radio-waves!!!
• Photons to transmit more data.
• Increase space craft communication performance and
efficiency by 10 to 100 times than conventional means.
• Without increasing in mass volume, power or spectrum
etc.
• FIGURE DESCRIPTS: Lasers emanating from a specific surface

25. Quantum satellite:
Another name; Micius
• Launched from Gobi desert.
• 17 August 2016.
• Use the photon entanglement method.
• Work under the Principle of Quantum Physics
• HOW IT WORKS???
• First Encrypted message sent through the another
normal communication channel.
• Encrypted keys of the message sent through the
photons (having specific quantum states)
• FIGURE DESCRIPTS: WORKING OF QUANTUM SATELLITE
An example

27. “RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS IN
NEW ZEALAND
SPACE AGENCY”

29. Revolutionary Design
Carbon composite materials:
• Electron makes use of advanced carbon composite material
instead of metal for a strong and lightweight flight structure.
• The carbon composite tanks were specially designed in order
to be compatible with the liquid oxygen.
FIGURE DESCRIPTS: CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIAL

30. Rutherford rocket engine
• An oxygen/kerosene pump fed engine.
• Uses brushless DC motors and high performance
lithium polymer batteries.
• Its unique high-performance electric propellant pumps
reduce mass and replace hardware with software.
• First oxygen/kerosene engine to use 3D printing .
FIGURE DESCRIPTS: A test fire of the Rutherford engine.

31. A 3D-printed rocket engine just launched a new
era of space exploration
“Create a three-dimensional object in which
layers of material are formed under computer
control to create an object.”
EXAMPLE:
Boeing’s micro lattice

32. 3-D Printing nozzle
3-D Printing engine

33. • Minimize the weight .
• Efficient
• Less fuel consumption .
• Simple structure.
• Reduce the amount of wasted material.
• Rutherford is the first oxygen/kerosene engine to use 3D printing with
engine print time24 HOURS

34. “ROSCOSMOS”
DEVELOPMENTS
IN SPACE
SYSTEM”

35. NASA and Roscosmos are building a new space station
• Known as Deep Space Gateway .
• Will allow mankind to stage space flights to
Mars and elsewhere in the Solar System.
• Technology developed for the Deep Space
Gateway could be implemented into surface
bases on the Moon and Mars.
SPACE STATION: NASA and Roscosmos hope the
Deep Space Gateway will open doors to Mars

36. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160202-solar-sail-space-nasa-exploration
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volcano-moons-science/
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