ESA_Lab Demonstrator Project: IGLUNA

摘要

IGLUNA is aimed at supporting and accelerating the ESA_Lab initiative, as a new instrument of cooperation between the European Space Agency and academic institutions. The lessons learned from IGLUNA will help the implementation of future ESA Labs. The Swiss Space Center leads the project and the main systems engineering activities, coaches the students, coordinates the events, and communicates to the general public to increase the outreach and aw areness of space. The nature of the project is to stimulate student education and exchange through an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative project on the topic: "A Human Habitat in Ice: Demonstrating key enabling technologies for life support in frozen worlds". During the project, university students applied their knowledge to solve a technical challenge, increasing in parallel the maturity of technologies relevant to space. The purpose of the mission was to investigate novel approaches to enable human settlement on the Moon directly inside the ice that could possibly be found in the craters near the poles. The topics covered the habitat conception and construction, life support systems, power management, communication, navigation, radiation monitoring, human well-being and science. 20 student teams, from 13 universities across 9 European countries, worked together during two academic semesters in 2018/2019 on their projects. Reviews were scheduled based on systems engineering best practices and simplified with respect to a formal space project review process. The student projects started in September 2018 with a Kick-off Event in Zurich as a first encounter of the teams, followed by the Swiss Space Center coaches visits to the teams at their local universities for the Preliminary Design Review in November. The Mid-term Event in Geneva featured the Critical Design Review in January 2019, with the subsequent Readiness Review team visits in April 2019. During the Field Campaign, all the teams met and brought to