ISS experiment

European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded C3M a SURE AO project entitled "In vivo biomechanical measurements of human skin properties under accelerated aging conditions during ISS mission".
In this project the astronauts engaged in long-term space missions will measure the evolution of their skin properties. Specially designed miniaturized mechanical devices will be applied to measure the stress-strain response of their skin under controlled loading programme. The measurements will be then analysed by inverse M5 methods to identify changes in the visco-elastic properties of astronauts skin.

Modeling of micro-thrusters

Miniaturised propulsion systems based on MEMS technology will play an important role for precise manoeuvring of satellites during rendezvous and autonomous formation flying missions.
C3M has established collaboration with Swedish Space Corporation and its doughter company NanoSpace who is producer of microthrusters. The collaboration is aimed at the development of M5 virtual model for holistic Multi-scale, Multi-body, Multi-field, Multi-phase & Multi-objective optimisation of micro propulsion systems. This will allow efficient adjustment of microthruster parameters to mission specific requirements.