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GMV Provides
Core Software for German Armed Forces’ SSA Center
The German
Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information
Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) has
recently awarded a contract to Atos and
OHB DC to supply the "Space Situational
Awareness Center Expansion Stage 1" (Weltraumlagezentrum,
WRLageZ, Ausbaustufe 1) to the German Federal
Armed Forces. This system, located in Uedem, will
enable the German Armed Forces to monitor the
situation in space and protect critical German
infrastructure in orbit.
The system
will be based on GMV’s state-of-the-art
COTS software for Space Surveillance and Tracking
(SST) as the core processing infrastructure. This
includes the most relevant SST capabilities and
functionalities: object cataloging, sensor tasking,
collision avoidance, re-entry prediction,
fragmentation detection and characterization, SST
data simulation, SST data pre-processing,
visualization, and more.
On top of
GMV’s software, OHB DC will add an operational
layer, providing interoperability to the system.
Additionally, Atos will integrate the various
software and hardware components into the solution,
creating interfaces with external sensors and
ensuring the operational performance of the overall
system.
With this
new project, GMV strengthens its position as
European industrial leader in Space Situational
Awareness (SSA) and Space Surveillance and Tracking
(SST). It also reinforces GMV’s footprint in
Germany, following the awarding of two relevant
contracts in 2021 by the German Space Agency at
DLR
for the German Space Situational Awareness Center
(GSSAC), also located in Uedem. The purpose of these
contracts is to implement advanced SST data
processing algorithms for the development of the
future EU SST catalog (under German responsibility)
and for maintaining and upgrading the GSSAC Mission
System.
Both German
and Spanish branches of GMV will be involved in the
activity, collaborating with teams located in
Munich, Darmstadt, and Madrid. All in all, over 70
GMV engineers currently work at GMV on SSA/SST
activities in 7 European countries, making it the
largest SSA/SST industry and team in Europe. GMV
works intensively in this field for the EU SST (in
Spain, France, Germany, Romania, and Poland), for
ESA (in addition to the previous list, in the UK and
Portugal), as well as in the commercial sector
(providing collision avoidance services to more than
10 operators and more than 80 satellites through its
focusoc operations center) and in the
military domain (including this new activity).
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