Cosylab Joins the Team of HEARTS
In an exciting development, we are announcing our collaboration with the HEARTS project, which marks a significant step forward in European space industry research and development. Cosylab shared its enthusiasm about joining the consortium at the HEARTS project’s first annual meeting, held on February 6 2024, at the CERN facility in Geneva. This meeting brought together representatives from the five beneficiaries and members of the project consortium to discuss the scientific and technical achievements since the kick-off meeting a year before.
The HEARTS project, an acronym for High-Energy Accelerators for Radiation Testing and Shielding, receives funding from the European Union through the Horizon Europe- Digital, Industry and Space Programme. Its primary goal is establishing a robust European infrastructure that facilitates research and industrial access to high-energy heavy-ion facilities. These facilities are critical for studying radiation effects in electronics, shielding, and radiobiology – areas of paramount importance for Europe’s advancement in space exploration and safeguarding electronic devices used in outer Space and on planetary surfaces from hard radiation.
Cosylab is tasked in the HEARTS project with enhancing the quality and quantity of ion beams and refining the user experience associated with the project. To that end, Cosylab will design and deliver two innovative single-tool solutions to streamline operations and access across accelerator locations. The first will simplify beam tuning and testing processes, making them more user-friendly and efficient. In contrast, the second tool shall create a single point of access for users irrespective of the differences between the CERN and GSI heavy-ion accelerator facilities and enable enhancement of the infrastructures as a service.
"Our engineers at Cosylab are truly excited to collaborate on the HEARTS project, which will enable the two main high-energy ion accelerator infrastructures to work as a unison solution for research and industrial access in the fields of radiation effects in shielding, radiobiology and electronics. It will be an excellent opportunity for us to combine our expertise from both the scientific accelerator and Space domain and work on single-tool solutions for user-managing beam parameters and user-tracking of the lifecycle across the facilities."
With its profound expertise in control system protocols, user interface tools for experimentation, and experiment lifecycle management, Cosylab is ideally positioned to contribute significantly to the HEARTS project. The company’s knowledge of FESA API integration and functionalities development for displaying and controlling beam properties further strengthens its role in the consortium. Cosylab’s commitment to the project underscores its dedication to advancing research and innovation in Europe’s space industry, particularly in the critical areas of radiation shielding and radiobiology for crewed space missions.
HEARTS is a project funded by the European Union under GA No 101082402, through the Horizon Europe- Digital, Industry and Space Programme.
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