GMV participates in EUSST-PERFMON project to develop a performance monitoring tool for the EU SST database

Under the European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking (EU SST) partnership, Germany oversees the space object catalogue and database, which are central to the programme's core public services: Collision Avoidance, Fragmentation, and Re-entry. Since 2021, GMV has played a significant role in Germany's contribution to this initiative by developing and maintaining the cataloguing system. Additionally, GMV collaborates with CGI to improve and restructure the database.

GMV's involvement in this initiative has recently expanded. The German space agency (DLR) has recently awarded a contract to a consortium led by GMV, with CGI as the main subcontractor, to develop a performance monitoring tool for the EU SST database. The main goal of this activity is the development of a tool that allows the operators to easily monitor the performance status of several key elements of the EU SST partnership, like the already mentioned database and catalogue systems, but also the coordinated sensor scheduler (COPLA) and other systems to come like the continuous calibration tool. This tool will monitor the status of those systems and provide real-time visual displays and notification alerts according to certain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that analyse the performance of the different EU SST systems.

GMV participation in the activity is fundamental. We are responsible for leading the consortium with CGI, who will take care of designing and developing the front-end part of the tool mainly based on Grafana. The work together with CGI will last until next June 2026 when it is expected that the final version of the monitoring tool is deployed at DLR premises. GMV will define the requirements, including the selection of KPIs from the EU SST database that will be monitored. Moreover, GMV is also responsible for the design and implementation of the monitoring tool backend. The tool design includes different notification services (email, alert events, etc) and management of different user roles. The core data analysis service will retrieve the data from the EU SST database and perform all the necessary computation for the KPI calculations. It is expected that the tool visualization of plots and statistics is loaded in nearly real time. Thus, GMV will have to rely on highly efficient algorithms and a database to store precomputed data.

This is yet another success for the GMV participation in the EU SST programme as a key player. The presence in the European SST sector continues growing for the company.

This project is funded by the EU Space Programme under the EUSST2023-26GA grant agreement and directed by the DLR Space Agency.