Hecate Mission 2021

Hyperion 2021

13 September 2021

Orpheus Mission – M02_Q1.21

1 March 2021

Mission Duration:
2 weeks
Mission Dates:
05.05. - 24.05. 2021

Astronauts:

Simone Paternostro– (Italy) - Commander
Sara Aparicio – (Portugal) – Vice Commander / Biolab Support
Cillian Murphy – (Ireland) - Medical Officer
Borja Pozo – (Spain) - Mission Engineer/Data Officer
Maria Jędryszek – (Poland) - Media Officer/3D printing specialist
Luz Miranda Atilano Herrera – Mexico) - Biolab Officer/Mission Engineer Support

Mission control:
Space is More

Leszek Orzechowski
Agata Mintus
Natalia Ćwilichowska

Organizators:
Space Garden Sp. z o.o., Space is More Sp. z o.o.
Main mission partner:
Austrian Space Forum (OeWF)
Campaign:
Pandemic Isolation Campaign
Research and Mission Partners:

Pomeranian Medical University (PUM)

Silesian University of Technology

Silesian University in Katowice

Austrian Space Forum (OeWF)

Deutshes Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

University of Oslo and International Space University (ISU)

MaxForce, Guillermo Rojo

Research

LunAres Research

1. Crew Medical Telemetry

2. Plant Cultivation Studies - use of grey water, improvement of hydroponic system

3. Grey water study - consumption and composition

4. Resources usage and consumption study

5. EVA tools and accessories development

6. Mission operation and Procedures development

Mission and Research Partners

1. Hippocampus in isolation studies - dr n med. Aleksander Waśniowski

2. Impact of freezed dried diet on physicochemical parameters of saliva and state of oral hygiene - Pomeranian Medical University

3. Human Motor system section study - Silesian Technical University

4. Psychological indicators of an effective adaptation to the analogue space missions - Silesian University in Katowice

5. Creativity and psychological indicators in the extreme environment of analogue space missions - Henderika de Vries, Aleksandra Kozawska, International Space University

6. MOVE experiment - Oslo University, International Space University

7. RETINA - DLR

8. MaxForce - Guillermo Rojo

9. Creative Research - Maria Jędryszek

Crew

Simone Paternostro

Born in 1986 in Italy. Bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering, Master’s degree in Space Engineering as well as a 2nd level Master’s degree in Space Transportation Systems and a PhD in Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy. AOCS/GNC intern at EADS Astrium (now Airbus Group), followed by a research position at the Institute for Aerospace Technology, Univ. of Nottingham. Contractor at ESA-ESTEC where he worked as Multi-Increment Payload Planner/Complement Requirements Manager and now as Payload Integration Manager for ESA payloads on board of the ISS (International Space Station). Dr Paternostro fluently speaks Italian and English and has a basic knowledge of German and Dutch. Member of the Austrian Space Forum for which he covers the roles of Flight Director and Analog Astronaut and member of Space Generation Advisory Council.

Sara Aparício

Sara Aparício is an Earth Observation data scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA) in ESRIN/Italy, through Solenix, where she also provides engineering support to the Phi-Lab department in ESRIN. For the past years she has been involved in numerous Earth observation (EO) activities, lately with ga rowing focus on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for EO studies. She has also been involved in several networking and outreach actions for the Agency. Currently she is doing a PhD in the areas of combination of AI and multi-sensors EO for the study of Cryosphere and Climate change.

Maria Jędryszek

Maria Jedryszek is an industrial designer and production designer, and current master student at Design School Kolding. She works with innovation design, industry 4.0 and design for social sustainability. Passionate about art and science, she also creates in the field of critical design and speculative design, provoking discussions about social frictions, human perception, and sustainability, as well as developing futures in Space exploration and synesthetic design.

Cillian Murphy

Cillian is a 28-year-old, Irish, astrophysicist. He has worked with the European Space Agency twice already, half a year as a research intern in the astronaut centre in Cologne, and two years as an Irish National Trainee with the Gaia Science Operations Center based in Madrid. He has also been working for two years with the Austrian Space Forum which conducts analog Mars research. Today he is working in Hungary as a research engineer for a biofuels company.

Borja Pozo

Dr Borja Pozo is a Telecommunications engineer specialising in electronics (BSc+MSc, 2013) and a master’s degree in advanced electronic systems (MSc, 2014) from the University of the Basque Country (EHU/UPV). Since 2014 he has been working at TEKNIKER a research institute of 300 people located in Eibar, Spain. In 2018 he obtained his international doctorate with honours in the field of energy harvesting and spending 5 months in Fraunhofer IIS Institute in Nuremberg (Germany) as a doctoral student. Since 2019 is the space technology leader in Tekniker, the work is focused on searching, offering, dealing, managing and developing proposal/projects related to space technology as manager and principal multidisciplinary researcher.

Luz Miranda Atilano Herrera

Luz Miranda Atilano Herrera is an Aerospace Engineering student at the Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla and has participated in different projects such as Aztechsat-1, the second Mexican nanosatellite which had an agreement with the Mexican Space Agency and NASA, doing research in the development of EVA systems for growing plants on the moon, In addition, she is involved in scientific dissemination in digital media, finally, she is an ambassador for Eurekk'a, a social enterprise that seeks to close the gender gap in women and girls for their inclusion in space sciences.