Elsag Datamat has many years' experience working in the space sector on the provision of services and the development of complex systems for Italian and international programmes, as part of leading industrial consortia and in the framework of cooperation agreements with Italian and international institutions, including the European Space Agency, the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of Defence, national space agencies.
Provided services include Engineering support to operations, Assembly Integration & Validation (AIV), Deployment & Integrated logistic support,
The developed technology and systems embrace many areas of application: control centres, inflight satellite navigation software, ground segment systems to acquire, process and archive earth observation data, multi-mission user services providing access to various mission catalogues.

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Space Space segment Control centres Ground Infrastructure Multi-Mission User Services Simulation and Modelling

For Elsag Datamat space is a strategic, expanding market that offers high added value. Activities in this sector can promote the development of products and services through innovative technology and the exploration of new horizons. The main activities include the design, development and integration of in-flight software; satellite control and simulation, and earth observation data management. Elsag Datamat works in the sector on its own account and through subsidiary Space Software Italia.

Space segment
Elsag Datamat's on-board software skills focus on satellite orbit and attitude control, navigation, satellite data management, unmanned vehicles, the International Space Station (ISS), and payload and telecommunications management. Specifically, Elsag Datamat has contributed to the European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) programme and the VEGA series of small launchers, leveraging experience acquired working on the HERMES space shuttle programme.

Control centres
Elsag Datamat has developed the control centres for all Italian satellites (ITALSAT 1 & 2, SIRIO 1 & 2, SAX, SICRAL), as well as for the new Italian COSMO-SkyMed programme, a constellation of four dual purpose earth observation satellites. On international markets Elsag Datamat has worked with ESA/ESOC to develop the control centres for ARTEMIS, XMM, Cryosat and GOCE. The company is currently engaged in the development of control centres for the ADM/Aeolus and Lisa/PathFinder missions, both based on the ESA SCOS 2000 kernel.

Ground Infrastructure
For ENVISAT, the world's largest earth observation satellite, Elsag Datamat has developed the entire User Services infrastructure to access data and telemeasurement products. At the present time Elsag Datamat is providing ongoing assistance for the Payload Data Segment Operation Team, in addition to maintenance, updating and engineering for the Earth Observation Payload Data Systems operated by ESA (a four-year programme).

Multi-Mission User Services
Elsag Datamat has developed User Services based on a Multi-Mission approach in view of the range and variety of catalogues currently available and to provide user access to different catalogues. The company is also contributing to the ODISSEO programme (Open Distributed Information Systems and Services in Earth Observation), which acts as an interface for current and future remote measurement satellites, as well as being involved in projects to harmonise the data collected in the framework of the GMES programme.

Simulation and Modelling
Elsag Datamat developed the simulators for the SAX, SICRAL and Atlantic Bird satellites, as well as for the COSMO-Skymed constellation simulator. At the present time Elsag Datamat is developing the simulator for the SICRAL 1B satellite, based on the European Space Agency's SIMSAT simulation infrastructure. Elsag Datamat has also contributed to the development of satellite simulators for various ESA missions including Venus Express, Mars Express and Herschel/Planck.

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