From 12 to 15 March the Walter Edward Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. hosted the world’s most important satellite-technology event, SATELLITE 2018, bringing together representatives from the top telecommunications-satellite companies. This crucial sector nowadays underpins such markets as the communication media, transport, telecommunications, finances and even the consumer goods industry, in an increasingly connected and interrelated scenario.

GMV, with the support of the Spanish External Trade Institute (Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior), exhibited its products and services, showcasing especially its ground-segment control systems such as hifly (satellite control), focussuite (orbit control), closeap/focusoc (collision risk management and associated services), flexplan (satellite resources planning system), magnet (monitoring-station control), smartrings  (configuration management and payload optimization) and smarthz (frequency-management system); plus network-security and vulnerability-analysis services.

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This event is the world’s best showcases for in situ display of products, offering the possibility of holding real-time demos for both actual and potential customers while also pinpointing new needs in the space industry. Its comprehensive lecture program represents a unique yearly chance to do some networking and share sector breakthroughs.

GMV boasts a wealth of experience in ground-segment developments; it is currently the world’s number one supplier of control systems for telecommunications space missions.