Case Studies

The IDEAS consortium, headed by VEGA Space, provides an operational service to monitor the quality of Earth Observation (EO) instrument data from European Space Agency (ESA) satellites and selected third party missions.

In the prestigious context of the 48th Paris Air Show (June 2009), Telespazio VEGA created the synthetic environment called FOSTER (Finmeccanica Open Synthetic Terrain Environment) specifically for Finmeccanica.

Telespazio VEGA and ESRIN worked together to design and developed ADEN PDS components, and installed them at ESRIN, at an Off-Line Archive Processing (OLAP) Centre and at ground stations in the ADEN region.

The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is one of Europe’s contributions to the International Space Station (ISS). Telespazio VEGA is developing the ATV numerical models for EADS Space Transportation.

The ISIS programme (Incentive for the scientific use of Images from the SPOT system) is an initiative from the French National Space Agency (CNES) and SPOT Image, which intends to optimise access to the SPOT infrastructure by providing SPOT data at preferential rates, with a view to facilitating European space scientific research.

Telespazio VEGA was asked by the Private Finance Initiative's lead banks to participate as the lender’s technical advisor during the Skynet 5 PFI evaluation.

Given the rapid increase in computing capabilities of graphics processors (GPU) over the past few years, CNES has entrusted Telespazio VEGA with a study on the use of GPU for the treatment of satellite imagery on the fly.

In recent years scientists have predicted that, due to the combination of summer ice melting, annual decrease in ice extent, and ice pack drift driven by wind and current, there will soon be open water at the North Pole, and in due course the arctic will be nearly completely ice free in the summer.