Exotrail’s spacetower flight dynamics system. Photo: Exotrail

Thales Alenia Space and Exotrail will develop a surveillance, command and control (SCC) ground segment solution designed for constellations of small satellites. The two companies have signed an MoU in order to work together and develop this solution, announcing the MoU on July 12.

This collaboration intends to integrate Exotrail’s spacetower flight dynamics system (FDS) software with Thales Alenia Space’s Open SCC satellite control solution. The companies say this will cover the full spectrum of engineers’ and operators’ flight dynamics and satellite operations requirements.

Exotrail’s spacetower software is a cloud-native flight dynamics system tailored to meet the comprehensive needs of flight dynamics engineers, including orbit determination and maneuver planning. Built on a scalable microservices architecture, spacetower can accommodate satellite constellations of any size. It integrates with ground segments via OpenAPI and is deployable both in the cloud and on-site.

“We’re very proud to be working with Thales Alenia Space and to combine spacetower with Open SCC, a gold standard in space operations. This partnership between new and established players offers a unique solution for operators, particularly of constellations, helping them to deploy and ramp up their satellite control and operations centers,” Sébastien Duménil, Exotrail CCO said in a statement.