Giseppe Lenzo CEO Spaceopal Munich Satellite Navigation Summit

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Spaceopal GmbH
Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2016
Munich Flashlights - News from Bavaria
Giuseppe Lenzo, CEO, spaceopal GmbH
Munich, 2nd March 2016

2. Spaceopal: a Munich based Company dedicated to Galileo
Operations
Spaceopal GmbH is a joint
venture between DLR GfR
mbH and Telespazio SpA,
established in 2009 and
registered under the
German law, with its
Headquarters in Munich
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3. On behalf of the European Commission and
contracted by ESA, Spaceopal is managing:
 The Galileo constellation, mission and
ground operations
 Special and contingency operations
 LEOP campaigns execution
 Satellite In-Orbit Tests
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 Ground Mission (GMS) and Ground
Control (GCS) Segment upgrades
 GCC Hosting Services
 Security Operations
 Initial Service preparation
Images Copyright © ESA

4. Spaceopal
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To operate the system and provide all the required services, Spaceopal is managing a highly
experienced industrial team

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OBERPFAFFENHOFEN
FUCINO
Spaceopal is operating
the system through 2
Centres:
 Oberpfaffenhofen
 Fucino

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Ground and Network operations
Two Galileo Control Centres (GCCs) and the whole GDDN (Galileo Data Dissemination Network)
are currently successfully managed by Spaceopal:
 The GCC-D (located in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany) as GCS (Ground Control Segment)
prime and GMS (Ground Mission Segment) as backup
 The GCC-I (located in Fucino, Italy) as
GMS (Ground Mission Segment) prime
and GCS (Ground Control Segment) as
backup
 A worldwide network connecting both
control centres to remote stations for SCs
Telemetry, Tracking, and Control Facilities
(5 TTCs), Navigation Message Uplink
Facilities (5 ULSs) and downlink Facilities
(13 GSSs, Galileo Sensor Stations)

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Ground and Network operations
 To operate and maintain all these Ground
Facilities, Spaceopal has developed,
validated and is currently using:
 More than 400 Ground Operations
procedures
 More than 300 Maintenance procedures
 In the course of operations, Spaceopal has
successfully supported without any impact:
 more than 500 SW and HW upgrades at
“element” level
 10 “full segment“ SW and HW upgrades

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 Spaceopal, in operating the Galileo system since 2010, has
successfully performed 6 LEOPs (12 satellites)
 Two more launches are expected in 2016 (6 satellites)
By the end of the year Spaceopal will manage a
constellation of 18 Galileo satellites

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Flight operations
Spaceopal is successfully performing all routine,
special and contingency “in orbit” operations for
the deployed Galileo fleet, in parallel with the
engineering, preparation and validation operations
for the satellites to be launched

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Flight operations
 Spaceopal has developed, validated and is currently applying more than
1100 “Flight Operations Procedures” and more than 100 operational
databases have been updated
 since beginning of operations, under Spaceopal
responsibility:
 more than 4,000 satellite acquisitions executed
 400,000 Telemetry parameters processed
 40,000 Telecommand uplinked on board
 150 manoeuvers (mainly for drift stop and fine
positioning) executed
 about 20 “full” Spacecraft recovery from “hard
contingency” (Safe Mode recovery)
 about 50 “Payload re-activation” after software
upgrade or major failure

11. A quite successful 2015!
 L4 and L5 campaign execution (satellite 7,8, 9 & 10)
 Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP)
 Commissioning
 In-orbit test (IOT)
 Finally inserted by the Mission operation team in the constellation and
started to disseminate the navigation message
 Start of L6 campaign (satellite 11 & 12)
 Conclusion of Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP)
 Seamless Mission Operations hand-over from GCC-I to GCC-D and
hand-back from GCC-D to GCC-I, for GMS major infrastructure upgrade
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12. Ready for 2016
 Prepared to take over another 6 satellites:
 May 2016 Soyuz launch with satellite 13 and 14
 Nov 2016 Ariane launch with satellite 15, 16, 17 and 18
 Support major ground infrastructure improvements and activation
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 Performance validation of the entire system
focussing on:
 Galileo Open Service (OS) – Free of charge for
all users, featuring excellent positioning and
timing performance
 Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) –
provides position and timing to specific users
requiring a high continuity of service, with
controlled access
 SAR – Search and Rescue Service

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Initial service provision validation
 The primary scope of Spaceopal in the operations provision, as well as in
the good management of all the assets, is the generation, uplink and
broadcast to final users of a good and usable navigation message
 As part of the initial services validation activities, the following activities
are managed by Spaceopal:
 Service Operations validation: OS, SAR and PRS services validation
activities regularly on going in the last 6 months running and fine-
tuning (when needed) relevant procedures (e.g. SLOPs)
 Service Operations Reporting
- Reporting on Services is regularly performed on daily (DDB),
weekly (OSM) and monthly basis (OPCR).
 Service Planned/Unplanned events Management
- Management of potential service anomaly regularly performed
through weekly SARB meeting and ORSI reporting.
- Management of planned outages regularly performed through
MTP meetings and weekly OSM reporting

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Initial service provision validation
 For each service, specific procedures and test cases have been defined
and tuned, taking into account the current available facilities
 They are currently under validation. The on-going process, started since
April 2014, is being tuned based on the expected System evolution
 Spaceopal, with the support of its shareholders (DLR GfR and
Telespazio), has the capabilities needed for the setup of the Initial
Services, with reference to:
 Standardisation
 Certification
 Type approval
 Use of Test Beds.

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Spaceopal has been providing a unique service in the last 5 years.
We are proud to have been supporting, as leader of a first class
industrial team, the European Commission and the European
Space Agency in bringing the Galileo constellation from initial
deployment up to service provision

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THANK YOU !
spaceopal GmbH
Arnulfstraße 58
80335 Munich
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 4111856 0
Fax: +49 (0) 89 4111856 29
info@spaceopal.com
www.spaceopal.com
The activity described in this presentation is carried out under a contract managed by ESA on behalf of
the European Union of and funded by the European Union.
The views expressed herein can in no way be construed as reflecting the official opinion of the European
Union and/or of the European Space Agency