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20.11.2024
Webinar: GIESEPP MP project results

Mission accomplished:
The final results of the Horizon 2020 project GIESEPP MP

Join our upcoming webinar to discover the latest results from the GIESEPP MP project. Our consortium will showcase the progress and main results of the project, including the test results that were performed a few weeks ago.

Presentations and Speakers of the webinar

Introduction to GIESEPP MP project, its final results, developments and achievements

Christian Knorr

Project Manager at ArianeGroup & GIESEPP MP project coordinator

Christian started his career in the space industry for manned space activities around the Internal Space Station (ISS). With experience and positions as software and electrical systems engineer he made his way into project and programme management at ArianeGroup working as programme manager in European ESA funded programmes as well as German national development programmes. He is programme manager at ArianeGroup for electrical propulsion projec.

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RIT2X - from component level to integrated subsystem

Christoph Montag

RIT-2X System Engineer at ArianeGroup

After completing his doctoral thesis on the development of the PETRUS pulsed plasma thruster system, which is successfully operated on board the GreenCube satellite since 2022, he joined ArianeGroup in 2020. As RIT-2X system engineer, Christoph is responsible for technical RIT2X topics within the GIESEPP MP project. In addition, he is a technical product manager for Radio Frequency Generators (RFGs) at AGG which is one of the components of the RIT-2X thruster system.

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Thruster testing at Justus Liebig University Giessen and the physics behind radio-frequency ion thrusters

Konstantin Keil

Doctoral student, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen

Doctoral student in the Electric Propulsion Group at JLU. During his physics studies, he worked both experimentally and simulatively on radio frequency ion thrusters, with particular emphasis on thrust balance measurements and global plasma models. He graduated in 2021 and is now mainly involved in the modelling of grid erosion.

RIT-2X Plume Characterization at AEROSPAZIO for GIESEPP-MP

Simone Scaranzin

Research and development engineer at AEROSPAZIO Tecnologie S.r.l.

Simone Scaranzin obtained a Bachelor’s degree cum Laude in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Siena, Italy, in 2003. Since his graduation, he joined AEROSPAZIO Tecnologie S.r.l. as R&D Engineer. He was involved in the development of the Aerospazio test infrastructures and participated in all the main test programmes carried out at Aerospazio in the past decades including the ESA BepiColombo, SmallGeo, Neosat and more recently the MSR-ERO and GIESEPP-MP.

Magnetic components design for space applications

Guillermo Salinas

Flight Hardware Designer at Airbus Crisa

Since 2014, Guillermo has been enrolled in several Power Electronics Research Centers, focused on the design and optimisation of power converters for space applications: at ‘Universidad Miguel Hernández’ (B.Sc.), at ‘Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’ (Ph.D. and M.Sc.) and finally at the European Space Agency (Research Fellow). He has specialised in the design and modelling of magnetic components. He is currently Flight Hardware Designer at Airbus-Crisa (MSR-ERO-PCDU, GIESEPP-MP).

System coupling test challenges and outcomes

Fabien Malet

Electric Propulsion Road Map and Development Leader at Airbus

Fabien started his professional career as Electrical and Mechanical Spacecraft Accommodation Manager. He managed and developed Li-ion batteries embarked in Telecommunications and constellations spacecraft over 10 years and was ADS technical authority in this Area. From 2019, he has been working as Development Leader in the Electric Propulsion of Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse. Fabien is managing the GIESEPP-MP System implementation, adequacy and performances for Telecommunications Spacecraft.