Cieslak, JérômeHenry, DavidColmenarejo, PabloBranco, JoãoSantos, NunoSerra, PedroTelaar, JüergenStrauch, HansGiordano, AlessandroStefano, MarcoOtt, ChristianReiner, MatthiasJaworski, JaroslawPapadopoulos, EvangelosVisentin, GianfrancoAnkersen, FinnGil-Fernandez, Jesus2019-09-272019-09-2718/09/2019http://hdl.handle.net/10437/9797International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SYSTOL)The design of a model-based Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) strategy based on Virtual Actuators (VA) in a built-in Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) setup is addressed for the e.Deorbit space mission. This mission, initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA), aims at removing a large defunct satellite from Earth orbit: ENVISAT. The goal of this paper is to promote academic solutions to add fault tolerance capacities against thruster faults without any change or new tuning of the already in-place GNC solution. The validation of the proposed FTC solution is assessed by a simulation campaign based on a high-fidelity nonlinear industrial simulator.application/pdfengopenAccessASTRONAUTICSAERONAUTICSCONTROL SYSTEMSASTRONÁUTICAAERONÁUTICASISTEMAS DE CONTROLO AUTOMÁTICOconferenceObject