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GomSpace
Provisioning Small Satellites in Large Constellations
Niels Buus, CEOGomSpace’s international team is devoted to understanding its customer’s requirements and flawlessly delivering holistic space and aeronautics solutions.
Headquartered in Denmark, GomSpace’s international team is devoted to understanding its customer’s requirements and flawlessly delivering holistic space and aeronautics solutions. To highlight some of the company’s recent milestones – GomSpace has been chosen to develop advanced satellites for global air traffic management by Indra and Enaire’s Startical consortium.
Further, GomSpace will deliver a large-scale development and demonstration project, including the launch of three dedicated in orbit demonstration (IOD) nanosatellites. The project is part of Indra and Enaire’s plan to establish a novel global air traffic management service from space, allowing aircraft everywhere to coordinate with air traffic managers using VHF and ADS-B technologies. “This is a truly transformative project for GomSpace, and we are very proud to be the technology partner for this demonstration project based on nanosatellite technology, where we can make use of our prior knowledge on tracking aircrafts with nanosatellites,” adds Niels Buus, CEO at GomSpace.
Similar to larger satellites, GomSpace’s CubeSats also features multiple computers handling different tasks in parallel, including attitude control (orientation), power management, payload operation, and primary control tasks. The competitive prices of CubeSats have enabled unprecedented access to space for smaller institutions and organisations but, for most CubeSat forms, the range and available power is limited to about 2W for its communications antennae. Because of tumbling and low power range, radio communications are a challenge. GomSpace’s CubeSats uses an omnidirectional monopole or dipole antenna built with a commercial measuring tape. For more demanding needs, GomSpace offers high-gain antennae for CubeSats, but their deployment and pointing systems are significantly more complex.
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GomSpace’s offering includes nanosatellite systems integration, CubeSat platforms, advanced miniaturised radio technology and satellite operations.
Similar to larger satellites, GomSpace’s CubeSats also features multiple computers handling different tasks in parallel, including attitude control (orientation), power management, payload operation, and primary control tasks. The competitive prices of CubeSats have enabled unprecedented access to space for smaller institutions and organisations but, for most CubeSat forms, the range and available power is limited to about 2W for its communications antennae. Because of tumbling and low power range, radio communications are a challenge. GomSpace’s CubeSats uses an omnidirectional monopole or dipole antenna built with a commercial measuring tape. For more demanding needs, GomSpace offers high-gain antennae for CubeSats, but their deployment and pointing systems are significantly more complex.
In addition, this improved reliability of information and optimisation of air navigation services will help free up airspace in congested areas, facilitate air traffic controllers’ work, and result in more efficient, punctual, and even safer flights. The Enaire and Indra project will be carried out in two phases. From 2021 to 2023, the first one will address the technical developments necessary to ensure the viability of the solution and deal with the regulatory and market aspects. Once this first phase is successfully completed, according to both companies’ plans, a second phase, to be carried out between 2024 and 2027, will implement the provision of these services on a global scale, with the deployment of the complete constellation.
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A leading manufacturer and supplier of CubeSat and small satellite solutions for academic, government and commercial markets, GomSpace’s offering includes nanosatellite systems integration, CubeSat platforms, advanced miniaturised radio technology and satellite operations. Headquartered in Denmark, GomSpace's international team is devoted to understanding its customer's requirements and flawlessly delivering holistic space and aeronautics solutions. GomSpace has been chosen to develop advanced satellites for global air traffic management by Indra and Enaire's Startical consortium. Further, the space organisation will deliver a large-scale development and demonstration project, including the launch of three dedicated in orbit demonstration (IOD) nanosatellites
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Defining Hungary's SOF ambitions at GSOF Symposium Europe 2022
The requirements of the Hungarian SOF (HUNSOF) will focus discussions in the Symposium, particularly in the government-only seminar (day one). Attendees will hear opening remarks from Lieutenant General Zsolt Sándor, Deputy Commander, Hungarian Defence Forces; followed by a session on Insight on Hungarian Funding and Acquisition Processes from Dr. Gáspár Maróth, Government Commissioner of Hungary.
The requirements of the HUNSOF will further shape discussions on the exhibition show floor, where defence companies will align their technologies with the HUNSOF capabilities catalogue, compiled and published by the GSOF Foundation specifically for the 2022 event.
Commander of Hungarian Defence Forces, Lt Gen Ruszin-Szendi, said: “The Global SOF Symposium Europe is every time a major forum to discuss current topics such as facilitation of defence acquisition processes and the empowerment of SOF in the near-future security environment.
“We look forward to connecting with our Partner Nations’ defence companies in order to modernize our forces and fill capability gaps to confront emerging threats.”
Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Minister of Defence, Hungary, said: “Hungary is honored to be a part of the larger NATO allied SOF Community and participate in its future growth. This event will highlight the strides we have made in this area, also placing a focus on our regional SOF partners.”
GSOF Symposium Europe 2022 attendees will include military and government visitors from more than 25 nations, along with more than 500 industry and educational stakeholders. Across the three-day event, high-ranking speakers will give their perspective on topical issues affecting European SOF today and in the future. Visitors will also get to grips with the latest technology developments from leading industry players on the exhibition show floor, and benefit from extensive networking opportunities.
The Global SOF Foundation is a non-profit organisation that aims to build and grow an international network of military, government, commercial and educational stakeholders in order to advance SOF capabilities and partnerships to confront global and networked threats.