IRTEBE - an experiment pitch for the ESA PETRI programme

IRTEBE is an experiment idea for the ESA PETRI programme, proposed by a collaboration of students from the university of Ulm and university of Dresden from Germany.
In this elevator pitch our principal engineer Alex is explaining the experiment idea and its purpose.

Inertial reference sensors play an essential role in gravity and gravitational wave research. These sensors comprise test masses are that released and float freely inside the satellite.
The inertial reference sensor test bed (IRTEBE) is a proposed free-floating experiment to demonstrate the feasibility of experiments using a microgravity platform, by demonstrating capture, position-sensing, and low-impulse release in general, and for spherical bodies for next-gen inertial reference sensors in particular.

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Links:
https://www.esa.int/Education/PETRI_programme/
https://www.airzerog.com/

Credits:

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna LISA Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuHE8x8nq7U
(Credit: ESA/NASA/AEI)

Zero G Gravity science
(Credit: ESA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzVnU7I4_Wg

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