ESR Technology is delighted to confirm that ESTL will be once again making several presentations at the ESA Mechanisms Final Presentation Days (FPD) at European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC).
The ESTL team have expressed their enthusiasm in the run-up to the event.
Simon Lewis, Manager of ESTL, stated: “I have the pleasure once again of opening the ESTL part of the show, presenting a summary of the new ESTL R&D activities for 2024 – this will be my 10th FPD since I became ESTL Manager”.
One of the Research Engineers at ESTL, Dr Rachel Bingley, will be speaking about a new mass spectrometry-based technique which shows great promise for determining the health status of fluid lubricants.
Matt Simpson, ESTL’s Research Engineer, will also consolidate for the first time how the life of solid lubricants varies with contact stress, which is particularly important to understand for those who are developing next-generation mechanisms with longer life or higher contact stresses).
Dr Anthony Kent, ESTL’s Research Engineer, will be presenting work done recently to assess the life and friction performance of newly formulated European fluid lubricants.
Dr Michael Buttery will be presenting the interesting findings from the ESTL Long-Term Storage (LTS) activity in which the ESTL team observes the changes that occur in solid and fluid lubricants over time. This work is supporting missions with very long duration storage requirements such as MTG or Metop- SG (being developed for Eumetsat) , for which storage for 15-20 years is of interest, but since we have now completed 4 years of storage the changes observed may be of interest to many other missions too.
Continuing the theme of resilience to long-term storage, other work to be presented includes research supported by ESTL. This research involves the formulation of new fluid lubricants by Materiales GmbH , specifically designed for improved long-term stability.
ESTL team will also be joined at ESTEC, by Andrew Gibson, who heads ESR Technology’s ESR Space team. Andrew is actively involved in developing hardware that supports thermal control devices for lunar and other missions. His team also provides support for various mechanism developments and recurrent assembly work for spacecraft primes and system developers..
ESTL team at ESR Technology invites everyone interested in the upcoming ESA Mechanisms Final Presentation Days (FPD) – the first in-person event since the pandemic. It is an excellent opportunity to connect with industry colleagues, network, and discover the latest advancements in mechanism development.
The FPD presentations will be made available in the Members’ Area of the ESTL website.