Human Spaceflight

Data Services, System Management and Archiving

For the Columbus Control Centre we are one of the main industrial partners of the German Space Operations Centre(DLR-GSOC). Our Company delivered facilities for the monitoring, control and configuration of all relevant system and software components within the ground segment infrastructure distributed worldwide, as well as the data dissemination of telemetry, experiments and video.

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Management Services for Complex ICT-Infrastructures [...]

Col-CC

We are a main partner of DLR for the realisation of the Col-CC [...]

Main Activites in the Columbus Control Centre

  • Data Services Subsystem
    The Data Services Subsystem (DaSS) performs TM/TC distribution and routing service between all entities within the MSM ground segment and external sites.   
  • Integrated Management Subsystem
    The Integrated Management Subsystem (IMS) is designed to monitor, control and configure the whole Columbus ground segment with distributed main sites.
  • MPEG-2 Video Distribution Service
    Provision of an integrated process monitoring solution for the globally distributed video system infra- structure. The video streams support onboard experiments.  
  • Decentralised Mission Control
    The Decentralised Mission Control Centre supports User Support Operations USOCs with essential functions for decentralised payload operations.