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。电信垂直领域发挥了推动作用，市场对全球连接的需求导致了低轨道和近轨道巨型星座的出现，并加速了非地面网络与地面网络的整合。这一愿景的核心是从大型单片卫星到各种大小和能力的多轨道星载节点的协调网络的架构范式转变。另一方面，传统上由政府倡议主导的空间任务- -例如导航（GNSS）和地球观测(EO) - -在采用新空间精神协调和协同利用新兴和已建立的卫星系统方面进展较慢。然而，这些系统已经在大量应用和垂直领域对我们的日常生活产生了变革性的影响。在这些领域的商业驱动任务中预测下一个新的空间前沿，HARMONY的中心观点是，通过在空间环境提供独特优势的一系列现有和新应用中采用分布式卫星架构，将释放出阶跃变化的潜力。HARMONY将以创新空间服务为核心，采用跨学科和垂直整合的方法研究联合和分体卫星系统架构，并在博士网络中开发核心基础技术，以培养未来的欧洲新空间领导者。

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.