Every space mission needs a mission control. It is a set of tools and activities to operate satellites.
Most mission control software and operations are still developed from scratch for each satellite mission. This results in higher operational risks as well as limited scalability and radio communication. Also, costs related to such solutions can amount up to 50% of the entire mission budget, making it a substantial investment.
Spaceit offers Mission Control as a Service, a one-stop solution for satellite operations. It includes a cloud-based Mission Control System (MCS), pre-integrated access to a worldwide network of ground stations, professional satellite management and supportive tools and services.
Spaceit Mission Control System covers the following key features for satellite command and control:
- Commanding
- Telemetry
- Automation
- Binary data exchange
- Payload data delivery
- Orbit prediction
- Tracking
- Ground stations integration
- Contact scheduling
- Supportive tools and services
- Data analytics
Furthermore, Spaceit’s team of professionals operate satellites for you. Our PRO service option is an end-to-end solution for satellite operations, leaving you to not to worry about the communication infrastructure, but only to receive data from a designated destination.
Besides easy onboarding and high reliability, Spaceit helps to decrease satellite mission budget by over 80% on software and operations.
Both, mission control software and ground station services are needed to communicate with a satellite. A ground station service is a terrestrial radio station and accompanying services designed for telecommunication with a spacecraft.
Usually one ground station enables only one hour of communication per day with a satellite in a low Earth orbit (LEO) and a single ground station network is used to communicate with a satellite. Integrating to an additional number of networks requires high costs.
Spaceit offers a seamless communication with various ground stations. Since our Mission Control System is pre-integrated with many ground station networks worldwide, there is no need for satellite missions to make the connections by themselves.
Since the ground stations are located strategically in different locations, we are able to connect with variety of satellite orbits and deliver data with the lowest latency available.
Whether it is a ground station fully dedicated for you or pay-as-you-go solution, we take care of the licensing and technical matters. It is the most efficient to integrate with Spaceit platform and to have a numerous communication and service options with your satellites.
If you own a ground station or a network of ground stations and would like to integrate with Spaceit platform, please let us know.
Spaceit offers a full range on additional tools and services for sophisticated satellite operations. Regardless whether you are a satellite operator or focused solely on the end goal of the mission, our Mission Control System platform provides you a gateway to different applications, both in-house and by our good partners.
Spaceit Satellite Operations Simulator (SatOpSim) is an essential application to increase reliability and security of a satellite mission. It helps to empower development, testing and validation of satellite communication systems in controlled environments and allows building cyber defence skills of satellite operators, system administrators and IT security experts.
The SatOpSim comes as a stand-alone simulator, as well as with an exercise in a cyber range. This state-of-the-art solution enables cyber exercise participants to simulate attacking and defending a satellite mission, expanding their cybersecurity skills into the space domain.
Furthermore, if your are interested in flight dynamics, mission planning, manoeuver design, conjunction analysis, orbit propagation and determination, data analytics or other satellite mission related activities, please contact us for further information.
