The Defence Innovation
Agency (AID) signs contract with Exotrail for the
delivery of
bespoke simulation and mission analysis software for
the French Space Command (CDE)
Exotrail signed a contract with
the Defence Innovation Agency (AID), an organisation
which is part of the French Ministry of Defence. The
contract is to provide the French Space Command
(CDE) with a
customised and enhanced version of ExoOPS™ - Mission
Design, Exotrail’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
product dedicated to simulation and mission
analysis.
The customised product will be
known as ExoOPS™ - Défense and will provide the
capability to easily
simulate and characterise complex satellite
manoeuvres. It will combine the state-of-the-art
software solution ExoOPS™ - Mission Design, with
additional functionality and insight from Exotrail’s
expertise in propulsion. This will allow CDE
operators to have a more comprehensive understanding
of the space environment which they operate in.
Although, CDE operators have
already been onboarded onto ExoOPS™ - Défense,
customisations to develop the product further will
be performed over a two-year agile development
cycle. Agile techniques
will allow rapid, regular refinement and adaption of
the product in line with CDE requirements.
Sébastien Duménil, Exotrail’s
Chief Commercial Officer, commented on the new
contract: “This is a great honour and privilege for
Exotrail to have been selected by the Defence
Innovation Agency and the French Space Command to
support building space capability. Being able to
combine our ExoOPS™ - Mission Design product with
agile product development techniques is the perfect
match and a truly innovative and disruptive way of
delivering a solution for the French Ministry of
Defence”.
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