Students building their own satellite

The open-call is valid until March 5th 2017. The European Space Agency will select the best proposals to help those teams of students to lead their own satellite campaign. EATOPS used a similar schem in 2010 (ESA Technology Transfer Programme) to get its 'OPS' tools deployed into a live ground segment environment. For the first time in the product development cycle, our UI/UX designers could test their piece of software against a control room operator.

Such initiatives are to be promoted as they gather teams of professional in their early-days of their engineering career. More projects will naturally emerge from those cross-collaborations and promote the European Space standards (ECSS) sometimes beyond the Space Industry.

The RIVOPS console is a good example. After first being used for the SwissCube Mission and later Triton & TUGSAT-1 mission, the console was eventually deployed onboard an offshore drilling vessel in the North-Sea. The same ECSS-data model is now used to structure the telemetry database of offshore platforms.

The RIVOPS ground segment package (video below) includes the console desk, the mission control system, the ESA-like software EGSE router, its data distribution, the command module, a set of housekeeping monitoring HMIs, the alarm-list, the 3D-overview panel. This software package also includes the suite of configuration tools such as the Spacecraft Mission Information Database (MIB), the spacecraft data model editor. For more information, contact info@eatops.com or chat with us at the bottom of this page.