SPRING – Space Response to Risk & Integration with Ground segment

Description
SPRING is a European SMEs-led project which will study the military specificities of a spacecraft automated reactivity in respect of a threat. It will integrate a communication chain between the ground segment and the flight segment, automated threat assessment on ground, and semi automated maneuvers calculated on-board. The project will demonstrate how to increase the safety and reactivity of military space systems through avoiding collision or close encounter with a hostile spacecraft. The project will result in the first ever integrated calculation & communication chain between ground and flight segments, able to send a countermeasure to a spacecraft in a very low short time following the detection of a threat. Following this countermeasure uplink, the spacecraft will react accordingly in a semi-autonomous to autonomous manner. Space-based recorded data, specific to military assets and requirements for identification, is sent to the ground segment for further automated threat assessment, further reaction scenarios recommendation and cataloguing in a specific Space Situational Awareness catalogue.

Goal
The overall objective is to develop an integrated solution for semi-automatised calculation and communication between ground detection, ground-based threat assessment and reaction scenarios recommendation, interfacing with military C2 and the flight segment for space-based object surveillance and autonomous planning.

Lead Partner
SHARE MY SPACE

Partners involved
SYBILLA TECHNOLOGIES SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA, NURJANA TECHNOLOGIES SRL, LMO, AIKO SRL,

Duration
01 December 2022 – 30 November 2024

Funding
€ 3,675,873.69

More information
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/projects-details/44181033/101103509/EDF
https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2022-07/Factsheet_EDF21_SPRING.pdf