The Netherlands Space Command relies on GMV to strengthen its Space Domain Awareness capabilities

The Netherlands Space Operations Centre, a branch of the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force, will incorporate GMV technology to strengthen its Space Domain Awareness systems. Specifically, the center will integrate Ecosstm® software, GMV's advanced solution for Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) control centers, Space Domain Awareness (SDA), and Space Traffic Management (STM), into its operational architecture. Among other functionalities, it will provide space object catalog maintenance, overflight events detection, re-entry monitoring, and collision avoidance management. 

Ecosstm® covers the entire operational chain, from sensor planning and allocation to the provision of advanced services to end users, including the generation and maintenance of a space objects catalog.

The technology that the Netherlands Space Operations Center will now adopt is already operating in other demanding environments. These include the German military Space Domain Awareness Center (Weltraumlagezentrum), the Spanish military Space Operations and Surveillance Center (COVE), the civilian space surveillance systems of several countries, such as Romania and Greece, GMV's commercial space surveillance operations center, Focusoc, and the new Space Safety Portal of the Space Data Association. This track record validates the maturity and reliability of the solution.

Alberto Águeda, Director of Space Surveillance and Traffic Management at GMV, commented that “this new contract strengthens GMV’s long track record in the field of space traffic knowledge, surveillance, and management, where GMV is a global leader in the civil, military, and commercial sectors. Having the Dutch Armed Forces as a new user of our technology is a key milestone that allows us to solidify Ecosstm® as a reference solution in a critical domain such as space security, safety and sustainability.”

Major Scott Akkerman, Space Domain Awareness Portfolio Manager at the Space Operations Centre of the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force, added that “the implementation of Ecosstm® as a proven software suite in the Netherlands Space Operations Centre is an important link in the first steps towards our sovereign Space Domain Awareness capability, in order to conduct national operations in space and providing solid services and products to the other branches of our armed forces, our allies and to NATO”.

The adoption of Ecosstm® by the the NLD Defence Space Security Centre strengthens European cooperation in space security and reinforces GMV’s position as a leading provider of space surveillance, command, and control systems, with proven experience in both civil and military applications.

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