Telespazio VEGA Deutschland


Telespazio VEGA Deutschland is a European aerospace company, founded in 1978. The company provides consulting, technology and engineering services in aerospace missions for ESOC, EUMETSAT and the German Aerospace Center.
Telespazio VEGA Deutschland is a subsidiary of Telespazio SpA. The Telespazio group is part of the Space Business Unit within Leonardo.

Office sites

Darmstadt (Hessen)

Headquarter near to the European Space Operations Centre and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.

Gilching (Bavaria)

Office site in Gilching, near the German Space Operations Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen/Weßling.

History

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland was established in 2012 when Telespazio Deutschland and VEGA Space GmbH were merged. The roots of Telespazio Deutschland may be traced back to the Thomson CSF Group, having been active in space missions since the early 1970s. VEGA, on the other hand, had its first contract with ESOC in 1978. So Telespazio VEGA has around 40 years experience in spaceflight.

Mission involvements

Mission/ProgramMission/Program leadInvolvement
ATVESASupport for DLR with Simulation models for the Automated Transfer Vehicle for the supply of ESA-astronauts on board of ISS
BepiColomboESA, JAXAExample development of the mission planning system.
Cluster ESASupport of ESA with the ground segment upgrade to extend the mission lifetime
EDRSDLRSupport to Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt with the handling of launch and early-orbit-phases for satellites EDRS-A, EDRS-C and HAG 1
ExoMars Trace Gas OrbiterESADevelopment of the mission control systems
and the operational simulator for the mission
Gaia ESADevelopment of the mission control system for the mission.
GalileoEUDevelopment of a Galileo System Simulation Facility
IntegralESAInvolvement in the flight operations and concepts on mission extension and mission end
LISA PathfinderESADevelopment of a simulator for operations and science
Mars ExpressESAInvolvement in spacecraft operations of the mission
METERONESAInvolvement in the METERON plug-and- play system infrastructure for robotic experiments
Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout DLRSupport of DLR MUSC with the lander operations concepts, resources, optimization implementations in the on board software
PhilaeDLRInvolvement in the Philae operations, commissioning and landing operations. Development of spacecraft operational simulator.
RosettaESADevelopment of the mission planning system for Rosetta and involvement in flight operations and flight dynamics
SATCOMBwBMVgOperating of satellites SATCOMBw 2a and 2b of the Federal Ministry of Defence.
Sentinel-2ESAInvolvement in the development of a Sen2Cor L2A processor for users, 38 in looking after the mission data status
Sentinel-3ESAInvolvement in the payload data ground segment architecture and operations
SwarmESADevelopment of an operational simulator for the Swarm mission, used at the European Space Operations Centre. Telespazio VEGA Deutschland staff are involved in the routine operations
Venus ExpressESAInvolvement in the operations of Venus Express, among others through mission operations concepts and mission operations models
XMM NewtonESAInvolvement in the XMM-operations, among others on concepts for In-tankreplenishment as well as automated on-ground FDIR techniques.

Programs

Shareholdings

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland is a shareholder in Centre for Satellite Navigation in Hessen

Memberships

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland is an active member in the following associations:

Aerospace/space

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland supports and operates several spacecraft for ESA and DLR. Aerospace is the most important segment with more than 80% sales volume.

Civil aviation

Telespazio VEGA Deutschland works on programs with Deutsche Flugsicherung and Frankfurt Airport. Up to 2013 the company led HETEREX-project.

Military aviation

Development of training systems for training of pilots and technicians as cockpit procedure trainer for the CH53-GA helicopter and a virtual maintenance trainer for helicopter NH90 /MRH90.

Applications

Development of applications for satellite-based positioning used by automatic precision guidance system in agriculture for German Agricultural Society and John Deere
Also, Telespazio VEGA Deutschland has contributed to the project agriloc through its expertise in Satellite Communication, meaning the provision of reliable connectivity to precision agriculture applications of farms and agricultural machinery in the countryside. Agriloc is a project within the ARTES 20 programme, funded by the European Space Agency and the German Space Agency.