The number of space debris orbiting the Earth is increasing at an outstanding pace pushed by a boost on the number of launches in the past few years. The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates that a total of almost 10,000 tons of material is currently orbiting our planet, including over a million objects bigger than 1 cm. GMV is a world leading light in the study, monitoring and prevention of space debris to safeguard future space sustainability.

As part of the Space Safety Program (S2P), the European Space Agency (ESA) defined a technological cornerstone for Collision Risk Estimation and Automated Mitigation (CREAM)

The aim of the cornerstone is the development of technology for automated collision avoidance to reduce man-power efforts, the time between manoeuvre decision and close approach, and the number of false alerts

GMV acts as a prime contractor in two of the three activities launched in the framework of CREAM and also participates in the third one

The CDTI has awarded GMV a new contract as part of the collision avoidance service provided by the Spanish (S3TOC) and French (COO) operations centers within the EU SST system

The main objective is to develop software for advanced collision risk analysis and avoidance maneuver calculation. The software is to be deployed, as well as in the S3TOC itself, in the control centers of the European satellite operators subscribed to the EU SST collision avoidance service

Atos and OHB DC have been awarded a contract for the development of the German Armed Forces’ Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Center

The solution is based on GMV’s COTS software for Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), including data processing, object cataloging, sensor tasking, collision avoidance, re-entry prediction, fragmentation detection and characterization, and other functionalities