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Advanced Concepts Team
European Space Agency
Formation1 March 2002
HeadquartersNoordwijk, the Netherlands

Founder

Franco Ongaro

Team Lead

Dario Izzo
WebsiteHome Page

Advanced Concepts Team (ACT) is a research lab within the European Space Agency tasked to "... monitor and perform research on advanced space concepts and technologies, preparing ESA for any disruptive change to come.". Located at the European Space Research and Technology Centre, in the Netherlands, the team was instituted in 2002 with the objective of fostering advanced research on space systems, innovative concepts and working methods. It serves the function of a think tank providing decision makers the support of a highly multidisciplinary research group. Science and engineering research fellows (PhDs working at the European Space Agency for 2 years), Young Graduate Trainee and interns form the bulk of the Team. They carry out research work on advanced topics and emerging technologies and perform highly skilled analysis on a wide range of topics.

Introduction[edit]

The Advanced Concepts Team (ACT) is a multidisciplinary research group at the European Space Agency. Its task is to facilitate disruptive changes in space technology by performing solid research on "exotic" topics typically not considered by "mainstream" space science.[1]

Research Highlights[edit]

People[edit]

The following scientists have worked at the Advanced Concepts Team and are now affiliated with a different institution:

Martin Nisser, Joerg Mueller, Clemens Rumpf, Jose Alberto Santos De La Serna, Viktor Wase, Nina Nadine Ridder, Thijs Versloot, Elvire Flocken-Vitez, Alejandro Gonzalez Puerta, Jessica Gemignani, Tom Gheysens, Daniel Hennes, Krzysztof Nowak, Ingmar Getzner, Pierre Mascarade, Anna Heffernan, Marko Jankovic, Rita Neves, Siem van Limpt, Christopher Gerekos, Christophe Praz, Isabelle Dicaire, Aleke Nolte, Athanasia Nikolaou, Paul Neculoiu, Annalisa Riccardi, Georgios Methenitis, Francisco Fernandez-Navarro, Carlos Ortega Absil, Stefan Willi, Beniamino Abis, Johannes Simon, Robert Musters, Aurelie Heritier, Jacco Geul, Maria Angeles de la Cruz, Sante Carloni, Wiktor Piotrowski, Hermanni Heimonen, Waldemar Franczak, Matthias Gerstgrasser, Marcus Maertens, Christos Vezyris, Markus Schoelmerich, Camilla Pandolfi, Dejan Petkow, Guido de Croon, Luke O'Connor, Maryia Zaretskaya, Helia Sharif, Alexander Kling, Vincent Casseau, Paul Gerke, Lionel Jacques, Duncan Barker, Marion Nachon, Joey Latta, Terence Pei Fu, Giuseppina Schiavone, Luis Felismino Simoes, Loretta Latronico, Cynthia Maan, Francesco Biscani, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Sreeja Nag, Neus, Pacome Delva, Lukas Schimmer, Juxi Leitner, Friederike Sontag, Nina Ridder, Christos Ampatzis, David di Lorenzo, Nikolas Smyrlakis, Nicholas Weiss, Tobias Seidl, Marek Rucinski, Kevin de Groote, Oisin Purcell, David Swords, Jussi Mäkitalo, Jose llorens Montolio, Luzi Bergamin, Maria de Juan Ovelar, Amélie Barth, Aurélien Hees, Marco del rey Zapatero, Maria Johansson, Luca Rossini, Francois Nuyttens, Laura Torres Soto, Naomi Murdoch, Tamas Vinko, Claudio Bombardelli, Cristina Bramanti, Daniela Girimonte, Nick Lincoln, Nicolo Alberti, Zoe Szajnfarber, Martin Fuchs, Simone Centuori, Tallha Samaree, Stefan Brendelberger, Meilanne Lancion, Daniela Girimonte, Michael Broschart, Carlo Menon, Luca Rossini, Lise Bilhaut, Nicholas Lan, Cristina de Negueruela, Andrés Gálvez, Tom Reunes, Fabio Pinna, Roger Walker, Mihaly Csaba Markot, Sarah Hardacre, Tiziana Pipoli, Andreas Rathke, Denis Defrere, Arnaud Bourdoux, Isabelle Nann, Mark Ayre, Lorenzo Pettazzi, John McCann, Torsten Bondo, Tiago Pardal, Massimiliano Vasile, Grégory Saive, Natacha Linder, Chiara Silvestri, Paolo de Pascale, Stefano Campagnola, Chit Hong Yam

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Summerer, L., Izzo, D., Naja-Corbin, G., and I., Duvaux-Bechon, The seeds of disruptive innovation, ESA Bulletin, 144, pp. 34–45, 2010. pdf
  • ^ Don Quijotte
  • ^ "ACT Advanced Concepts Team". Archived from the original on 12 September 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2007.
  • ^ "ACT Advanced Concepts Team". Archived from the original on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2007.
  • ^ GTOC portal
  • ^ "ACT – Newsroom". Archived from the original on 29 January 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
  • ^ "ACT Advanced Concepts Team". Archived from the original on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2007.
  • ^ "ACT Advanced Concepts Team". Archived from the original on 9 January 2008. Retrieved 10 January 2008.
  • ^ "ACT Advanced Concepts Team". Archived from the original on 8 April 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2008.
  • ^ http://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/bng/op/CuriosityCloning/demo.html[permanent dead link]
  • ^ "ACT – Biomimetics". Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
  • ^ "ACT – Biomimetics". Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
  • ^ http://www.thespacegame.org/ Archived 3 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ SOCIS Archived 6 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ PyGMO V.1.0.0 Archived 19 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ 10 years of Advanced Concepts and looking ahead Archived 26 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine esa.int, Retrieved 20. November 2013
  • ^ "ACT Advanced Concepts Team". Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
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