SCISYS lands deal to provide facilities for EUMETSAT

Software systems, IT based solutions and support services supplier SCISYS has landed a contract with GMV Aerospace and Defence to deliver the mission operations facility for EUMETSAT's upcoming geostationary weather satellite, Meteosat Third Generation (MTG). EUMESTAT is the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites. The firm will be responsible for the integrated mission planning and automation system, alongside associated operations preparation and archiving functions. SCISYS is expcted to earn €1.8m from the contract over the next six years, starting immediately.Dr. Horst Wulf, Divisional Director Space of SCISYS said: "We have been working hard to get into the Meteosat III meteorological ground segment business with EUMETSAT. This contract ensures SCISYS have a foothold in MTG ground segment and in core EUMETSAT business for many years. "It continues the close cooperation between our companies over a number of years, based on a mutual, sound, technical approach." The company explained that two operationally proven applications which it has developed will be combined to provide "a highly integrated" operations workflow from mission planning to spacecraft control. As well as ground-based automation, the system will provide cohesive management of operations delegated to the spacecraft's on-board schedule, it said. SCISYS has worked for EUMETSAT on all the previous generations of European geostationary weather satellites and said the contract was a continuation of its working relationship that now spans more than 20 years.NR