The international space Station: a Unique REsearch infrastructure

Projektinformationen

SURE

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 26069

Projekt abgeschlossen

Startdatum 1 Januar 2006

Enddatum 31 Dezember 2012

Finanziert unter

• Research infrastructures: Specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration: "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Gesamtkosten € 2 018 000,00

EU-Beitrag € 2 018 000,00

Koordiniert durch

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (EUROPEAN SPACE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE)
France

Ziel

The European Space Agency will give access to the International Space Station (ISS) to European Union, Romanian and Bulgarian (EU27) scientists and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). To counterbalance the inequality of access between the EU Member States participating to the ISS Programme and the other EU Member States, priority will be given, when appropriate, to non-ESA Member States, who usually do not have access to the ISS. Users will have the chance to perform both basic and applied-oriented research in a unique leading-edge weightlessness research infrastructure permanently inhabited by astronauts, offering a platform for experimentation virtually free from atmospheric disturbances.

Experiments independently reviewed and selected based on scientific excellence, space relevance criteria, and if required on their potential for market driven applications will be performed on board this multidisciplinary infrastructure. They will cover the multiple facets of life and physical sciences in space, from renown areas (human physiology; biology; material sciences; fluid, interface and combustion physics fundamental physics) to emerging ones (nanotechnologies; quantum physics; health; planetary exploration; food) in space research. Users, working in a secure defined legal environment, will have the opportunity to achieve major breakthrough by exploiting the complementarity of ground- and space-based research, and by getting access to data in conditions non-achievable on Earth.

They will benefit from the long-standing expertise of the research community involved into ESA microgravity experiments, and vice-versa. EU10, Romanian and Bulgarian nationals will, for the first time, have the possibility to act as user groups' leaders. This will deepen their integration into the European Research Area. Eventually, opening the access to the ISS will foster the relationship between ESA and EU in the path towards a European Union Space Policy.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › astronautical engineering › spacecraft
• natural sciences › physical sciences › quantum physics
• engineering and technology › nanotechnology
• medical and health sciences › basic medicine › physiology

Programm/Programme

• FP6-INFRASTRUCTURES - Research infrastructures: Specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration: "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Thema/Themen

• INFRASTR-1 - Transnational access to major research infrastructures for research teams and individual researchers

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

FP6-2004-INFRASTRUCTURES-5
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Finanzierungsplan

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Koordinator

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (EUROPEAN SPACE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE)

• EU-Beitrag: Keine Daten
• Adresse: 8-10 Rue Mario Nikis ; PARIS ; Frankreich
• Gesamtkosten: Keine Daten