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Company type | Private joint venture |
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Industry | Aerospace |
Founded | 1978 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Sigmar Keller (CEO) |
Services | Software and systems engineering |
Owner | Telespazio |
Number of employees | Approx. 400 |
Website | www |
Telespazio Germany GmbH [1] [2] [3] is a European aerospace company, founded in 1978. [4] The company provides consulting, technology and engineering services in aerospace missions for ESOC [5] (European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt), EUMETSAT [6] (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, Darmstadt) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). [7] [8]
Telespazio Germany is a subsidiary of Telespazio SpA. The Telespazio group is part of the Space Business Unit within Leonardo.
Headquarters [9] is near the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).
Office site in Gilching, [10] near the German Space Operations Centre [11] (GSOC) in Oberpfaffenhofen/Weßling (Bavaria).
Telespazio Germany was established in 2012 when Telespazio Deutschland and VEGA Space GmbH were merged. The roots of Telespazio Deutschland may be traced back to the Thomson CSF Group (now Thales), having been active in space missions since the early 1970s. VEGA, on the other hand, had its first contract with ESOC in 1978. So Telespazio Germany has around 40 years experience in spaceflight.
Mission/Program | Mission/Program lead | Involvement |
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ATV | ESA | Support for DLR with Simulation models for the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for the supply of ESA-astronauts on board of ISS [16] |
BepiColombo | ESA, JAXA | Example development of the mission planning system. [17] |
Cluster (spacecraft) | ESA | Support of ESA with the ground segment upgrade to extend the mission lifetime [18] |
EDRS | DLR | Support to Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt with the handling of launch and early-orbit-phases (LEOP) for satellites EDRS-A, EDRS-C and HAG 1 [19] |
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter | ESA | Development of the mission control systems [20] and the operational simulator for the mission [21] [22] |
Gaia (spacecraft) | ESA | Development of the mission control system for the mission. [23] |
Galileo | EU | Development of a Galileo System Simulation Facility (GSSF) [25] [26] [27] |
Integral | ESA | Involvement in the flight operations and concepts on mission extension and mission end [28] |
LISA Pathfinder | ESA | Development of a simulator for operations and science [29] |
Mars Express | ESA | Involvement in spacecraft operations of the mission [30] |
METERON | ESA | Involvement in the METERON plug-and- play system infrastructure for robotic experiments [31] |
Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) [32] | DLR | Support of DLR MUSC with the lander operations concepts, resources, optimization implementations in the on board software [33] |
Philae | DLR | Involvement in the Philae operations, commissioning and landing operations. [34] Development of spacecraft operational simulator. [35] |
Rosetta | ESA | Development of the mission planning system for Rosetta and involvement in flight operations and flight dynamics [36] [37] |
SATCOMBw | BMVg | Operating of satellites SATCOMBw 2a and 2b of the Federal Ministry of Defence (Bundesministerium der Verteidigung – BMVg). [38] |
Sentinel-2 | ESA | Involvement in the development of a Sen2Cor L2A processor for users, 38 in looking after the mission data status [39] |
Sentinel-3 | ESA | Involvement in the payload data ground segment architecture and operations [40] |
Swarm | ESA | Development of an operational simulator for the Swarm mission, used at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC). [41] Telespazio Germany staff are involved in the routine operations [42] |
Venus Express | ESA | Involvement in the operations of Venus Express, among others through mission operations concepts and mission operations models [43] |
XMM Newton | ESA | Involvement in the XMM-operations, [28] among others on concepts for In-tankreplenishment as well as automated on-ground FDIR techniques. |
Telespazio Germany is a shareholder in Centre for Satellite Navigation in Hessen (cesah) [49]
Telespazio Germany is an active member in the following associations:
Telespazio Germany supports and operates several spacecraft for ESA [56] and DLR. Aerospace is the most important segment with more than 80% sales volume. [3]
Telespazio Germany works on programs with Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) and Frankfurt Airport. [3] Up to 2013 the company led HETEREX-project. [57]
Development of training systems for training of pilots and technicians as cockpit procedure trainer for the CH53-GA helicopter [58] and a virtual maintenance trainer for helicopter NH90 [59] /MRH90. [60]
Development of applications for satellite-based positioning used by automatic precision guidance system in agriculture for German Agricultural Society (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft, commonly known as DLG) and John Deere [61] Also, Telespazio Germany has contributed to the project agriloc [62] through its expertise in Satellite Communication, meaning the provision of reliable connectivity to precision agriculture applications of farms and agricultural machinery in the countryside. Agriloc is a project within the ARTES 20 (Integrated Applications Promotion) programme, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Space Agency (DLR).
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The German Aerospace Center is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of Germany, founded in 1969. It is headquartered in Cologne with 35 locations throughout Germany. The DLR is engaged in a wide range of research and development projects in national and international partnerships.
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Telespazio UK Ltd. is a British space company based in Luton, Bedfordshire. Founded in 1978 by a small group of engineers at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, VEGA presently works with various space agencies, satellite operators and manufacturers around the world. It works with the European Space Agency (ESA) and ESOC in Germany, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, ESA Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) in Rome, Italy, and European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Madrid, Spain.
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