GMV at Poland’s Space debris surveillance and tracking activities

GMV Poland is currently participating in the maintenance, integration and validation of ESA’s datacenter

Since the nineties GMV has developed the lion’s share of the European Space Agency (ESA)’s software systems run for this purpose. At the moment the company has over 20 engineers working on this matter in 5 different countries.

Given GMV’s SST experience and expertise, and as part of the company’s international expansion, GMV Poland has been leading ESA’s Space fragmentations detection and analysis service. This service examines the evolution over time of a catalogue of in-orbit objects to detect any explosions or collisions that might have occurred, identify the objects involved and forecast the future evolution of the resulting cloud of fragments.

As a follow-up, GMV Poland is also now participating in the maintenance, integration and validation of ESA’s datacenter under the leadership of GMV Spain. GMV Poland is leading all SST services within this activity. Last but not least, GMV Poland is currently part of the consortium leading the feasibility study of a future Polish Space Situational Awareness (SSA) service, supporting the definition of this system’s SST segment. GMV’s activities take in the analysis and definition of system requirements, system design including possible reuse of existing infrastructure plus the definition of interfaces, products and services.