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Scientific
Missions and Exploration Programmes
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Telespazio is involved in the European and Italian Space Agencies’ scientific missions and exploration programmes. These include ExoMars, the European robotic mission to Mars, and Italian Space Agency opportunity missions and small missions, as well as lunar mission research.
The company’s involvement relates to mission analysis and the definition of mission control centres and the ground segment. It always places emphasis on the need to support users so that they can operate in the best possible conditions by providing operational solutions that give scientific teams the opportunity to undertake monitoring and analysis directly from their laboratories. This is made possible by using technological platforms based on service-oriented architecture and software agents that enable project stakeholders to collaborate and support decision-making, and by taking innovative approaches to designing, monitoring and controlling payloads and space platforms to facilitate on-board autonomy and automation of the ground segment.
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To develop these solutions and technology, Telespazio is investing in the international project Ulisse, a project under the EU Seventh Framework Programme, as the leader of a consortium of 18 international partners.
Supporting the definition stage of various space exploration and observation missions brought to light the need to develop additional services and strengthen communications capacity. To this end, Telespazio, after conducting the study phase to find a location for a third deep space antenna, will now be involved, with the assistance of Telespazio Argentina, in building the DS3 antenna. The ultimate aim is for the company to be able to contribute to the M&O activities of the system to be built in Malarguë, Argentina.
Telespazio is also involved in the ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme. Developed under the aegis of the EU and then incorporated into the activities of the ESA, the programme’s objective is to promote space situational awareness to ensure the security of Europe's space assets in view of their increasing importance to society. This covers a range of issues from the risks associated with human products (space debris), near-Earth objects (NEOs – celestial bodies such as comets, asteroids and meteorites), and space weather (radiation, solar flares, high-energy particles and magnetic storms).
At this level, Telespazio is involved in conducting research into NEOs and assessing the risk that such bodies will hit the Earth. In Italy, its work focuses on protecting satellites from colliding with space debris.
SCIENTIFIC MISSIONS AND EXPLORATION PROGRAMMES
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Mission analysis
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Definition of the ground segment
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Definition of the Mission Control Centres and Science Operation Centres
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Robotic exploration (Moon, Mars and NEOs)
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Space exploration and observation missions
Programm
- SSA (Space
Sitiation Awarness)
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