The Walter Edward Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. recently hosted today’s most important satellite-technology event, SATELLITE 2020, bringing together representatives from the top telecommunications-satellite companies.

GMV now boasts a wealth of experience in ground-segment development and is currently the world’s number-one supplier of control systems for telecommunications space missions. As such it could hardly miss this event in a world where telecommunications is becoming increasingly interrelated and connected and underpins other important markets like the media, transport, finances and even the consumer industry.

GMV, with the support of the Spanish External Trade Institute (Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior), once more exhibited its range of space-mission ground segment solutions, including Hifly (satellite control), Focussuite (orbit control), Closeap/Focusoc (collision risk management and associated services), Flexplan (satellite-resource planning system), Magnet (monitoring- and receiver-station control), Smartrings (configuration management) and Smarthz (payload optimization); plus network-security (cybersecurity) and vulnerability-analysis services.

Despite the worldwide crisis we are all now living through, which even forced the conference to close one day earlier than scheduled, the conference still served as the world’s best showcase for in situ display of GMV’s range of Space products, offering the possibility of holding real-time demos for both actual and potential customers while also pinpointing new needs in the space industry. The event also still represents a unique yearly chance to do some networking and swap notes on sector breakthroughs.