Special Session at FAR 2025

ICARUS Featured in Special Session at FAR 2025

The ICARUS project was prominently featured in a dedicated Special Session at 3rd International Conference on Flight Vehicles, Aerothermodynamics and Re-entry (FAR 2025), held from 18 to 22 of May in Arcachon (France). The session served as an important opportunity to present the project’s current progress, technical achievements, and future objectives to the international scientific and industrial community.

Session Overview

The special session offered a comprehensive overview of the ICARUS mission architecture, system-level design approach, and the development status of key enabling technologies. Presentations were delivered by project partners from across Europe and covered both the strategic vision and technical execution of the initiative.

The following partners contributed in the Special Session:

– Giuseppe Guidotti (INDRA-DEIMOS)

Introduction to the ICARUS Project

– Raphael Kessler (DLR-MORABA)

Flight test approach and re-entry mission analysis

– Ysolde Prevereaud (ONERA)

Aerodynamic, Aerothermodynamic and FQA

– Raquel Marey-Oton (INDRA-DEIMOS)

System challenges and design status

– Roberto Gardi and Giuseppe Maria Infante (CIRA)

Flexible TPS design and development status

– Farouk Haidar (ATMOS)

Inflatable Structure design and development status  

– Pawel Goldyn (DLR-Cologne)

In-Flight Measurement design and development status

–Sigurd Ravnan (HDES)

Cool Gas Generator design and development status

Advancing Reusable Space Transportation in Europe

The ICARUS project addresses the key engineering, material, and testing challenges of atmospheric re-entry using inflatable and scalable solutions. These technologies promise to significantly enhance mass efficiency, system reusability, and mission flexibility for future European launch and re-entry systems.

Among the innovations showcased were:

• Advanced flexible thermal protection systems (TPS)
• Novel inflatable structural concepts
• Integration of on-board electronics for data acquisition
• Development of a dedicated health monitoring system and cool gas generators (CGGs) for inflation

Acknowledgements

The ICARUS consortium extends its sincere thanks to the FAR 2025 organizing committee (HyFAR-ARA : Hypersonic Flight and Atmospheric Reentry, Centre National d’Études Spatiales, CEA and German Aerospace Center (DLR)), as well as to Jeroen Van Den Eynde (ESA) and Jean-Luc Verant (ONERA) for their invaluable support in making the session possible.

The project also wishes to thank all contributors and attendees for their active engagement and interest in the session.

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