Partners
GMV Aerospace and Defence is the Spanish subsidiary of the industrial group GMV Innovating Solutions. GMV is ranked #1 Worldwide Satellite Control Center provider to commercial telecom operators. GMV technology has been selected to fly nearly 500 satellite missions worldwide.
GMV is in charge of Project Coordination and Management (WP1) due to its well-known reputation on its space project management as well as standardised and validated project management processes to achieve the project goals in time and within budget.
GMV leads also the WP3 devoted to Ground Software Evolution Design, Implementation and Testing due to its leadership on the domain and based on its heritage of technical component and solutions.
CTTC is a non-profit research institution resulting from a public initiative of the Regional Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya). Research activities, both fundamental and applied, are organized onto four research divisions: Communication Networks, Communication Systems, Communication Technologies and Geomatics.
CTTC leads the WP4 (IA Model Design, Implementation and Verification) as well as WP8 (Dissemination, Communication, Standardisation and Academy-Industry Bridge Building).
CTTC works also in requirements, design, interfaces and verification related to the AI based component, innovation management and exploitation, communication, dissemination, standardisation and closing the gap between research and industry.
AIKO is a deep tech company, delivering state of the art Artificial Intelligence solutions for flight and ground software with the goal of enabling autonomous space missions.
AIKO has been the first European company to demonstrate Deep Learning algorithms in orbit, achieving TRL 9 for payload data processing algorithms. To date, AIKO has several ongoing projects in the fields of payload processing, spacecraft automation and visual navigation.
AIKO leads WP6 (Ethical Innovation Management and Sustainable Exploitation) which fits perfectly its profile of innovative SME.
Moreover, AIKO provides cut-of-the edge technical contributions on AI components related specification, design, interfaces and verification, communication, dissemination, standardisation and closing the gap between research and industry.
Eutelsat is one of the world’s leading and most experienced operators of communications satellites. The company provides capacity on 38 satellites to clients that include broadcasters and broadcasting associations, pay-tv operators, video, data and Internet service providers, enterprises and government agencies. Eutelsat’s satellites provide ubiquitous coverage of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas, enabling video, data, broadband and government communications to be established irrespective of a user’s location.
EUTELSAT leads WP2 (Requirements and Engineering) feeding the project with the end-user knowledge on actual satellite operations and coming market needs.
Besides, EUTELSAT participates on other WPs supporting the definition of external interfaces, and integration into industrially relevant operational environments. Also, EUTELSAT contributes on WPs devoted to exploitation supporting the early adopters programme, and will participate in communication and dissemination activities.
Skylogic is the Italian Eutelsat subsidiary specialized in the provision of broadband services. The company mission is to develop, release, and operate services upon request from Eutelsat, which commercializes the services to its final customers.
Skylogic plays a fundamental role in defining requirements and scenarios as well as providing the operational-like scenario for AI-PCS prototype to be validated in an industrial relevant environment.
OHB System AG is one of the three leading space companies in Europe. It belongs to the listed high-tech group OHB SE, where around 2,800 specialists and system engineers work on key European space programs.
With two strong sites in Bremen and Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich and nearly 40 years of experience, OHB System AG specializes in high-tech solutions for space. These include small and medium-sized satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications, science and space exploration as well as systems for human space flight, aerial reconnaissance and process control systems.
Within atria OHB takes care of the space segment definition. Its experience as a telecommunication satellite manufacturer is the basis to define the relevant scenarios and requirements for payload design.
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the leading organization for applied research in Europe. Its research activities are conducted by 72 institutes and research units at locations throughout Germany. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft employs a staff of more than 26,600, who work with an annual research budget totaling more than 2.6 billion euros.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS is one of the world’s leading application-oriented research institutions for microelectronic and IT system solutions and services. It is the largest of all Fraunhofer Institutes.
Fraunhofer IIS contributes to the definition of use-cases and develops the satellite flexible payload emulator and leads WP5 (Flexible Payload Emulator for Beamforming and PoC at Lab). The payload emulator will be based on an abstraction of the properties of a flexible payload taking into account a manifold of transponder chains and a digital transparent processor. Fraunhofer IIS aims at generating a scalable model to also account for different satellite classes and their individual power constraints.
