NL and the SMART mission

• A 2 space-craft demonstration flight within the SMART programme (2006/7)

  • Deployment Control
  • Formation Flying / RF subsystem
  • milli- and m-Newton propulsion technology
  • delaylines

• Idea: NL build and integrate needed elements for fringe acquisition

• NL Consortium

  • Fokker, TNO-TPD, SRON, Leiden/NEVEC

• Report by den Herder et al. with a first conceptual design

  • Elements + a budget

• Next steps (international partners, timeline, funding) are being discussed

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