Thales Alenia Space and Exotrail Collaborate on Ground Segment Software
Summary
Thales Alenia Space and Exotrail will develop a surveillance, command and control (SCC) ground segment solution designed for constellations of small satellites. This collaboration intends to integrate Exotrail’s spacetower flight dynamics system (FDS) software with Thales Alenia Space’s Open SCC satellite control solution. Exotrail’s spacetower software is a cloud-native flight dynamics system tailored to meet the comprehensive needs of flight dynamics engineers, including orbit determination and maneuver planning. Built on a scalable microservices architecture, spacetower can accommodate satellite constellations of any size. This partnership between new and established players offers a unique solution for operators, particularly of constellations, helping them to deploy and ramp up their satellite control and operations centers,” Sébastien Duménil, Exotrail CCO said in a statement.