What the buyer wrote
In order to validate the European Space Agency's ExoMars platform it is necessary to conduct full field trials with an engineering model which represents the actual flight model (i.e. the platform which will go to Mars) as closely as possible. The instruments which the ExoMars robot will carry are built using various consortia across Europe, and in the case of the Panoramic Camera and Navigation system known as PanCam, Aberystwyth University is responsible for the emulator which is used to validate the actual flight instrument. This emulator called AUPE is the system which is needed to test the vision and navigation systems of the ExoMars validaton platform, which the UK Space Agency…
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- What the buyer calls it
- UK SBS ExoMars PanCam Emulator
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- goods
- Work starts
- 24 Mar 2017
- Work ends
- 30 Jul 2017
- Kind of work
- Transport and fleet
Who the buyer named
Rebecca Fish was the named contact on this notice.