March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
.... After completing the mission’s conceptual design in early 1996, ESOC began the preparation of the ground segment and mission operations. A Ground Segment Manager (GSM), Manfred Warhaut, was appointed to oversee all ESOC activities, from the initial...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
.... It will be composed of spacecraft clusters, tied into a unified network that connects them to each other and the ground segment. This infrastructure will essentially provide its users with a “hosting” service, giving them the opportunity to use...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
... in the Netherlands and then (from 1993) at ESOC in Germany. Since 2008 he has been responsible for the ground segment and mission operations of ESA’s astronomy and fundamental physics missions including Herschel & Planck, Gaia, Lisa Pathfinder...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
...EO concept missions were chosen per study for a full cost–benefit analysis, including instrument, platform, launch, ground segment and feasibility assessments. In the first study, a collaboration formed by NOVELTIS, ENEA and OHB, these concepts were4...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... that wishes to insure anything from a single spacecraft to an entire system (including both space and ground segments). The client engages a satellite manufacturer (otherwise known as a prime contractor), which manages a team of subcontractors...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... by doing it! In the meantime, Manfred Warhaut, the first ground segment manager of Rosetta back in 1996 when the project started, and...and workarounds when problems were developing on board or on ground. I have lived the strong emotions of arriving at...
