Operational Services

Organisations providing operational services to spacecraft operators, space agencies and other government agencies and the military

Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company (ALTEC)
Payload and Landing Centre for ESA’s Space Rider flights; management of the Rover Operations Control Centre and the Science Operations Centre for ESA’s Exomars mission; operation of data centres for the management and storage of Science Big Data for ESA’s Gaia, Euclid and METIS missions

Baemari Satellite Ground Control Station (Estación Terrena de Control Satelital (ETCS Baemari)), Venezuela
primary control ground station for ABAE’s Miranda and Sucre satellites

GAUSS Srl (Group of Astrodynamics for the Use of Space Systems)
ground station support for small spacecraft operations

Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency of Thailand (GISTDA), Thailand
telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) services for spacecraft

ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), India
TT&C and payload data acquisition for LEO and deep space missions; launch vehicle TT&C; monitoring, control and support during LEOP and GTO

Master Control Facility (MCF), India
TT&C and operation of ISRO’s geostationary and navigation satellites from launch to end of life

Luigi Broglio Malindi Space Center (Centro Spaziale Luigi Broglio), Kenya
telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) services for launch vehicles and spacecraft; LEOP support services

Sardinia Deep Space Antenna (SDSA), Italy
TT&C and payload data acquisition for lunar, interplanetary and deep space missions

Space Science Data Center (SSDC), Italy
scientific spacecraft operations; storing, processing and distributing data from scientific spacecraft

Masuda Tracking and Communications Center, Japan
spacecraft and launch vehicle TT&C

Ogasawara Downrange Station, Japan
spacecraft and launch vehicle TT&C

Satellite Applications and Operations Center (SAOC), Japan
operation of ground systems for Earth observation satellite control

Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC), Japan
tracking of launch vehicles after liftoff

Uchinoura Space Center (USC), Japan
telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) services and data acquisition for interplanetary spacecraft

Usuda Deep Space Center, Japan
telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) services and data acquisition for interplanetary spacecraft

Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), South Korea
spacecraft and launch vehicle TT&C; operation of ground systems for Earth observation satellite control

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), USA
communications with the ISS; operates two spacecraft tracking and data acquisition networks for scientific spacecraft and Earth science satellites

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), USA
operation of planetary probes

Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN)
operates the Near Space Network and the Deep Space Network for communication with all of NASA’s spacecraft

DS3 Malargue Station (Estación DS3 Malargue), Argentina
TT&C support for ESA deep space missions missions

Tierra del Fuego Earth Station (Estación Terrena de Tierra del Fuego), Argentina
TT&C support for CONAE Earth observation and remote sensing spacecraft

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), USA
operation of meteorological, environmental monitoring, climate research and space weather satellites; data acquisition, processing and distribution

National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Nigeria
communications and Earth observation satellite operations

Omitron
spacecraft operations support including: pre-launch mission operations development and testing, launch and commissioning operations, normal operations, and anomaly support/contingency operations

Spire Global
operates a global network of ground stations for small satellite operations

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)
small satellite operations

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)
operates a global network of ten ground stations providing connectivity for satellite operations including LEOP, orbital insertion, in orbit testing, orbit changing maneuvers, deorbiting as well as day to day operations and payload data reception for spacecraft operating from LEO to the lunar surface; antenna hosting at its global network of ground stations

Taiwan Space Agency (TASA), Taiwan
satellite operations; LEOP operations



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