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.

Registration for new experiments open!

Registrations for new experiments for VOLT and ORIOLE missions are open.

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.

OPS-SAT ORIOLE

The OPS-SAT concept has been adopted by the ESA ARTES ScyLight Strategic Programme Line to create OPS-SAT ORIOLE, 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.