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Heterotopias and the History of Spaces
In this essay Georges Teyssot explores Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia as applied to architecture and its implications in terms of language, governance, and space. This analytical approach marked a significant shift in the late 1970s, redirecting a ...
2024Design for demise applied to spacecraft structural panels and experiments for ClearSpace One platform
With growing awareness of the vulnerability of the near-Earth space region and the anticipated surge in satellite objects, efforts are underway to assess and implement various mitigation strategies. These aim to minimize the impact of space activities and ...
EPFL2024Mechanical design of the optical unit and structural subsystem for a lunar camera
The project was initiated by the Moon Village Association (MVA). It is a non-governmental association which regulates the exploration program of lunar missions. The MVA also works on the development of space technologies: the Payload1 project is a part of ...
2022Intensifying space activity calls for increased scrutiny of risks
As the pace of space activities accelerates and societies become more reliant on space-based systems, the associated risks deserve more attention. Satellites form a critical infrastructure on which military, civil and commercial entities rely. The services ...
International Risk Governance Center2021Lieu hologrammatique, un concept et une méthodologie complexe de mesure de l'organisation spatiale des réalités sociales
The urban is a complex phenomenon whose exploration remains a important scientific challenge. Choosing complex thought in order to renew our capacities for understanding and action on and with the urban is not trivial. The complex thought developed by Edga ...
EPFL2020Politics of Space : Notes for a Pragmatic of the Common
Based on an ethnography of political squats in Geneva, this paper explores the spatial dimension of commonalities. It argues that in the political process of ordering a common life, space plays a central role as it constitutes the articulating element betw ...
2019Modeling and experimentation of conductive and radiative transfer through heterogeneous insulators in high-flux environments
Heterogeneous materials are used in a wide range of applications involving high heat flux environments such as concentrated solar reactors, high-temperature furnaces, or thermal protection systems of space vehicles. The thermal response of heterogeneous ma ...
EPFL2019Operation of a Concurrent Design Facility for university projects
Louis Antoine Masson, Anton Ivanov, Federico Belloni
Concurrent Design is a part of the systems engineering process, which has been widely adopted in space mission design. This paper describes the setting up a facility in a university and will try to answer a question of where the Concurrent Design Facility ...
IEEE2016Ground to Flight Investigations of Hayabusa with Ablation Effects
Pénélope Leyland, Daniel Potter, Nikhil Banerji, Jérémy Raphaël Mora-Monteros, Valentin Marguet, Elise Joy Fahy
Thermal protection systems (TPS) are of extreme importance for the survival of space vehicles especially during superorbital re-entry to Earth. The design of thermal protection systems requires in-depth knowledge of the thermal loading experienced during a ...
2013Fluid-structure thermal coupling and ablation effects in atmospheric entry
This thesis deals with the modelling of fundamental aspects of the mission engineering, the physics, and the constraints of atmospheric entry of space vehicles. The aim of this work is to formulate a coupled approach for the modelling and the simulation of ...
EPFL2013