Planetary sciences up for discussion

The 7th edition of the meeting on Planetary Sciences and Solar System Exploration (CPESS in Spanish) recently took place in the Spanish city of Valladolid, from July 11 to 13. GMV participated in this 3-day event focused on planetary sciences and was also a sponsor.

This is a gathering that takes place every two years,to give visibility to the scientific and technological contributions that the scientific community in Spain is making to the field of planetary sciences. Mariella Graziano, GMV’s Manager of Business Strategy and Development for Science, Exploration, and Transportation for Space Systems EST, participated in a roundtable discussion on technological capabilities and the possibilities for private-sector funding of scientific projects.

The event also addressed other important themes such as space missions in the solar system, space instrumentation, astrobiology, research on exoplanets, small bodies, terrestrial planets, giant planets, and their moons, and ethics in the space industry.

By participating in this edition of the CPESS meeting, GMV had an opportunity to raise awareness among the scientific community and the institutions present at the event regarding the company’s capabilities in scientific areas such as mission design, instrumentation, onboard software, and data processing solutions. A special emphasis was placed on the Generic Data Reduction Framework for Space Surveillance (Gendared), which was designed for the operational processing of images from optical telescopes for space surveillance and tracking (SST).

The meeting was organized by the Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy Applied to Cosmogeochemistry and Astrobiology (ERICA) research group from the Applied Physics department at the University of Valladolid (UVa) in collaboration with other Astrophysics groups and researchers at that university.