October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
..., enhancing efficiency and reducing costs for all users. There are many benefits with a multi-mission ground segment model, including massive scalability, pay-as-you-go convenience, self-provisioning and elastic consumption of resources. During peak...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
...in space-based data will not be fully realised. Artistic rendition of an EO smallsat constellation on orbit. Multi-mission ground segment The ground infrastructure to handle the load of these new constellations does not exist at scale today The first...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... and design choices The characteristics of the Euclid mission pose a number of important challenges on the design of the ground segment and its operations: Euclid will be placed and maintained on a large amplitude Halo orbit around SEL2. The...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
... deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager, was in the room next door to the office of Manfred Warhaut, the Rosetta Ground Segment Manager. He called me in and asked if I knew? Seeing the expression on my face he realised I didn’t know what he was talking...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... signed an agreement in 1998 to collaborate on the IJPS, comprising two polar-orbiting satellite systems and their respective ground segments, and forming one key component of the global observing system coordinated by the WMO. The IJPS cooperation...
March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... using an off-the-shelf laser tracker for precise localisation of the gondola. Changes on the ground Innovation is also needed in the ground segment. For example we need to look for more efficient ways of using available frequencies. New techniques...
