Space Missions Engineering Laboratory

• Rosetta
• ReDSHIFT 
• LUMIO
• Space Shepherd
• Compass
• Training for HIWING Technology Academy

ReDSHIFT 

ReDSHIFT is a project financed within the Horizon 2020 program. It is addressing barriers to compliance for spacecraft manufacturers and operators presented now and in the future by requirements and technologies for de-orbiting and disposal of space objects. This is achieved through a holistic approach that considers from the outset opposing and challenging constraints for the safety of the human population when these objects re-enter the atmosphere, designed for demise, and for their survivability in the harsh space environment while on orbit. Ensuring robustness into the future,  ReDSHIFT takes advantage of disruptive opportunities offered by 3D printing to develop highly innovative, low-cost spacecraft solutions, exploiting synergies with electric propulsion, atmospheric and solar radiation pressure drag, and astro-dynamical highways, to meet de-orbit and disposal needs, but which are also designed for demise.