OPS-SAT Space Lab

OPS-SAT Space Lab is an ESA service to help accelerate innovation in OPS related areas. It uses powerful, reconfigurable space elements that can be used for in-flight experimentation not possible or desirable on other missions. The service provides access to these labs for all European industry and institutions, using a fast, cost free, non-bureaucratic process. Industry can concentrate of generating value while ESA assumes the risk of performing these experiments.

OPS-SAT-1 Re-entry Dataset and Exploratory Analysis

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OPS-SAT-1 Content Dataset

OPS-SAT-2 missions: Optical and quantum communication in-flight experiment opportunities for European & Canadian industry

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OPS-SAT-2 VOLT Publication

OPS-SAT-1

ESA's OPS-SAT is the first of its kind, with the sole purpose of testing and validating new techniques in mission control and on-board satellite systems. The satellite is only 30cm high, but it contains an experimental computer ten times more powerful than any current ESA spacecraft.

OPS-SAT VOLT

The OPS-SAT concept has been adopted by the ESA ARTES ScyLight Strategic Programme Line to create OPS-SAT VOLT, offering reconfigurable payloads that enable in-orbit testing and demonstration of cutting-edge technologies.

Training

The OPS-SAT Space Lab provides many opportunities for training in the context of spacecraft operations, with on-site courses and hands-on simulation exercises.

SMILE

SMILE is an open-to-use, flexible mission control and validation environment based at ESA’s operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, made up of a lab and two antennas.

ARTES ScyLight

ScyLight is one of 3 Strategic Programme Lines that ESAs Member states have setup to put particular focus on areas like Optical and Quantum Communications (ScyLight, 4S and Space for 5G).

POCKET+

POCKET+ is a lossless delta compression algorithm implemented using very low-level processor instructions such as OR, XOR, AND, etc. It can run with low CPU usage and, more importantly, with a short execution time.