Innovating New Space Frontiers: Harmonised Federated And Fractionated Systems Unlocking Fresh Perspectives For Satellite Services

小型卫星技术的重大发展，加上新空间的迅速商业化，正在扰乱空间格局。电信垂直领域发挥着推动作用，在这一领域，对全球连接的市场需求导致了LEO和MEO巨型星座的出现，并正在加快努力，将非地面网络与地面网络相结合。这一愿景的核心是从大型整体式卫星到由不同大小和能力的多轨道星载节点组成的精心编排的网络的架构范式转变。另一方面，传统上由政府举措主导的空间飞行任务--如导航(GNSS)和地球观测(EO)--在采用新的空间精神以协调和协同利用新的和已建立的卫星系统方面进展较慢。然而，这些系统已经通过过多的应用程序和垂直市场对我们的日常生活产生了革命性的影响。预计在这些领域内的商业驱动的飞行任务中将出现下一个新的空间前沿，和谐的一个核心观点是，通过在空间环境提供独特好处的一系列现有和新的应用中采用分布式卫星架构，将释放步调变化的潜力。Harmonity以创新的空间服务为核心，将采取跨学科和垂直综合的方法，研究联邦和分离的卫星系统架构，并在博士网络中开发核心支撑技术，以培养未来的欧洲新空间领袖。

Major developments in small satellite technologies coupled with the rapid commercialisation of New Space are disrupting the space landscape. A driving role rests with the telecommunication vertical, where market demands for global connectivity led to the emergence of LEO and MEO mega-constellation and are accelerating efforts for the integration of non-terrestrial with terrestrial networks. Core to this vision is an architectural paradigm shift from large monolithic satellites to an orchestrated network of multiorbit spaceborne nodes of various sizes and capabilities. On the other hand, space missions traditionally dominated by governmental initiatives - such as Navigation (GNSS) and Earth observation (EO) - are slower in adopting the New Space spirit towards coordination and synergetic exploitation of emerging and established satellite systems. Yet these systems have had transformative impact on our daily lives along a plethora of applications and verticals. Anticipating the next New Space frontiers in commercially driven missions within these domains, a central view of HARMONY is that step change potential will be released by adopting distributed satellite architectures across a range of existing and new applications where the space environment provides unique benefits. Placing innovative space services at its core, HARMONY will adopt a cross-disciplinary & vertically integrated approach in the study of federated and fractionated satellite system architectures and the development of core underpinning technologies in a doctoral network that will nurture future European New Space leaders.