The SSA HE-NEO-01 - INCREASE NETWORKING OF MS ASSETS - PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OBSERVATIONS will be funded by the SSA Component of the Space Programme and will therefore be open to economic operators established in an EU Member State. It is also open to all natural and legal persons established in a third country which has a special agreement with the European Union in the field of public procurement on the conditions laid down in that agreement. Where the Agreement on Government Procurement concluded within the World Trade Organisation applies, the participation is open to all natural and legal persons established in the countries that have ratified this Agreement, on the conditions laid down therein.
The aim of this action is to improve the networking of EU Member States assets by identifying and increasing the observation capabilities of European observing facilities that perform NEA physical observations. The activity shall include the actual implementation of the observations and the derivation of the physical properties like size, rotational state, taxonomy and composition of an asteroid. These are crucial parameters to determine the possible effects in case of an impact on Earth, and will enable more in-depth research on both individual asteroids as well as the overall asteroid population in the solar system. Output from this process shall consist of the obtained observations and the derived physical properties.
The work in this activity will focus on the following areas related to the acquisition of NEO physical properties that inform planetary defence:
• Rotation, shapes and binaries obtained from lightcurve observations.
• Photometric colour measurements.
• Reflectance spectroscopy.
• Polarimetric observations.
The Invitation to Tender (ITT) will be published on esa-star Publication. In order to access the ITT Package from esa-star Publication, Tenderers must be registered in esa-star as potential ESA suppliers. Any Tenderer which is not yet registered with ESA as a potential supplier must complete the online questionnaire in esa-star Registration, https://esastar-emr.sso.esa.int/ . Further information on the registration process can be found in ESA’s INDUSTRY PORTAL available at: - http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/esa-star_open_for_business
- http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/How_to_do/esa-star_Registration_Process
Please note that esa-star allows two levels of entity registration: “Light” and “Full”. This allows new users wishing to do business with ESA to carry out their registration in two steps. While “Light” registration will grant access to all esa-star services up to and including proposal submission, the award of ESA contracts requires “Full” registration.
The SSA HE-NEO-01 - INCREASE NETWORKING OF MS ASSETS - PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OBSERVATIONS will be funded by the SSA Component of the Space Programme and will therefore be open to economic operators established in an EU Member State. It is also open to all natural and legal persons established in a third country which has a special agreement with the European Union in the field of public procurement on the conditions laid down in that agreement. Where the Agreement on Government Procurement concluded within the World Trade Organisation applies, the participation is open to all natural and legal persons established in the countries that have ratified this Agreement, on the conditions laid down therein.
The aim of this action is to improve the networking of EU Member States assets by identifying and increasing the observation capabilities of European observing facilities that perform NEA physical observations. The activity shall include the actual implementation of the observations and the derivation of the physical properties like size, rotational state, taxonomy and composition of an asteroid. These are crucial parameters to determine the possible effects in case of an impact on Earth, and will enable more in-depth research on both individual asteroids as well as the overall asteroid population in the solar system. Output from this process shall consist of the obtained observations and the derived physical properties.
The work in this activity will focus on the following areas related to the acquisition of NEO physical properties that inform planetary defence:
• Rotation, shapes and binaries obtained from lightcurve observations.
• Photometric colour measurements.
• Reflectance spectroscopy.
• Polarimetric observations.
The Invitation to Tender (ITT) will be published on esa-star Publication. In order to access the ITT Package from esa-star Publication, Tenderers must be registered in esa-star as potential ESA suppliers. Any Tenderer which is not yet registered with ESA as a potential supplier must complete the online questionnaire in esa-star Registration, https://esastar-emr.sso.esa.int/ . Further information on the registration process can be found in ESA’s INDUSTRY PORTAL available at: - http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/esa-star_open_for_business
- http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/How_to_do/esa-star_Registration_Process
Please note that esa-star allows two levels of entity registration: “Light” and “Full”. This allows new users wishing to do business with ESA to carry out their registration in two steps. While “Light” registration will grant access to all esa-star services up to and including proposal submission, the award of ESA contracts requires “Full” registration.
