Netherlands Space Command selects GMV’s Ecosstm to enhance national Space Domain Awareness capability

The Netherlands Space Operations Centre, part of the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force, will adopt the advanced solution for Space Surveillance and Tracking control centres, Space Domain Awareness and Space Traffic Management. Ecosstm will support space object catalogue maintenance, overflight event detection, re-entry monitoring and collision avoidance management.

The software covers the full operational chain, from sensor planning and allocation through to advanced services for end users, including the generation and maintenance of a space objects catalogue. According to GMV, the system is already operating in demanding civil and military environments across Europe.

These include the German military Space Domain Awareness Centre, the Spanish military Space Operations and Surveillance Centre, civilian space surveillance systems in countries such as Romania and Greece, GMV’s commercial surveillance centre Focusoc, and the Space Safety Portal of the Space Data Association. The company states that this track record demonstrates the maturity and reliability of the solution.

Alberto Águeda, Director of Space Surveillance and Traffic Management at GMV, said: “this new contract strengthens GMV’s long track record in the field of space traffic knowledge, surveillance, and management, where GMV is a global leader in the civil, military, and commercial sectors. Having the Dutch Armed Forces as a new user of our technology is a key milestone that allows us to solidify Ecosstm as a reference solution in a critical domain such as space security, safety and sustainability.”

Major Scott Akkerman, Space Domain Awareness Portfolio Manager at the Space Operations Centre of the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force, added: “the implementation of Ecosstm as a proven software suite in the Netherlands Space Operations Centre is an important link in the first steps towards our sovereign Space Domain Awareness capability, in order to conduct national operations in space and providing solid services and products to the other branches of our armed forces, our allies and to NATO”.

The adoption of Ecosstm® by the Netherlands Defence Space Security Centre strengthens European cooperation in space security. It also reinforces GMV’s position as a provider of space surveillance, command and control systems with experience in both civil and military applications.