Contract announcement

We are glad to announce that LSE Space has been awarded by the European Space Agency the provision of Operations Engineering Services for both the Interplanetary and the Sentinel Expansions Missions.

The Interplanetary service provision encompasses a large scope of tasks including

• preparation of the future OP missions Hera, MSR-ERO, ExoMars RFM
• operations engineering services and real-time operations for all flying Interplanetary missions, i.e. Cluster-2, BepiColombo, MarsExpress, ExoMars TGO, Juice, and Solar Orbiter.

The Sentinel Expansions Operations Preparation services cover

• the activities from early operations preparation phases up to transition to routine operations including support to Launch and Early Orbit Phases, for the CO2M, CRISTAL, ROSE-L, CIMR, CHIME, and LSTM missions.

These additional services continue and extend the range of services that LSE Space has been providing to ESA/ESOC for more than twenty years. We are committed to continuing the close cooperation with our customer ESA as a trusted partner and delivering excellent services.

Photo: ESA/J.Mai. ESA Main Control Room at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt.