Ecosstm®

Ecosstm® has a microservice oriented architecture, flexible, adaptable, and easy to maintain and extend.

It is composed of a suite of autonomous modules but working in an integrated manner. They can be deployed independently, according to the user needs.

Ecosstm® provides a fully automated concept of operations including reactions to events.

Ecosstm® features a modern web-based user interface including a powerful 2D/3D visualization engine. 

Thanks to its REST API, it is straightforward to integrate Ecosstm® with other tools.

Ecosstm® correlates and processes measurements from all types of SST sensors so as to build-up and maintain a catalogue of objects and their orbital information.

It processes survey and tracking data from radars, telescopes, lasers, passive RF stations and space-based sensors.

The catalogue build-up and maintenance processing chain covers:

• Track association and correlation.
• Maneuver detection and estimation.
• Orbit determination.
• Orbit correlation.
• Orbit comparison.

Ecosstm® automatically performs the following tasks:

• Tasking optimization of tracking sensors (telescopes, radars, laser ranging stations...), including calibration tasks.

• Survey strategy optimization of survey telescopes.

• Object visibility windows computation of survey and tracking sensors.

Ecosstm® develops an optimal plan (including object ephemeris), presents it in a Gantt chart, and then submits it to the SST sensors.

Ecosstm® provides conjunction detection, collision risk assessment (CA) and collision avoidance (COLA) maneuvers computation.

It ingests as input data:

• Satellite operational information (ephemerides and maneuver plans).
• Orbital catalogues.
• Conjunction data messages (CDMs).

And generates easy to understand reports about the potential collision events and how to avoid them:

• Interactive plots.
• Summary tables.
• Reports.
• CDM comparisons.

Ecosstm® predicts and analyses the re-entry of objects orbiting the Earth, including:

• Orbital lifetime estimation.
• Orbital re-entry propagation.
• Atmospheric re-entry computation.
• On-ground risk evaluation.

Ecosstm® also detects and analyses in-orbit fragmentation of space objects and categorizes them into two different types:

• Fragmentation due to a collision between two objects.
• The explosion of an object due to internal causes.

Ecosstm® calculates two types of overflight events for a set of satellites over a set of points/zones at Earth’s surface:

• Over regions of interest: time intervals when a point or polygonal zone over the Earth’s surface is visible by the objects defined in a catalogue of interest.
• Defined stations: time when the satellites of interest could send acquired information to available downlink stations.

Ecosstm® can simulate a complete space objects population and their measurements from a customizable network of SST sensors of any kind. 

The tool provides astrometric and photometric reduction of images taken by optical telescopes of objects orbiting the Earth.

Ecosstm® can optimize the maneuver sequence of a satellite or a constellation of satellites for any operational phase of the mission, from launch to decommissioning and disposal (orbit acquisition, station keeping, slot relocation and disposal/deorbiting maneuvres).