Satellite surveillance, tracking and monitoring during COVID-19

GMV has been running the Spanish Space Surveillance and Tracking Operations Center (S3TOC) since 2016, rendering a service to dozens of EU satellite operators in redundancy with a similar center in France. Right up to the time of writing, the service has managed to keep up the same level of quality thanks to the use of secure S3TOC access networks for remote operations, showing the center's high degree of robustness.

Since 2014 GMV has also been running the precise orbit determination service for the Sentinel satellites of the Copernicus program. The service is hosted in the GIGAS cloud, meaning it can be run from anywhere; since mid-March GMV's team has been carrying out its activity in teleworking mode. A new improved-performance version of the system has even been rolled out recently, since when the latest developments, cloud validation and subsequent operational deployment have all been carried out by teleworking.

Since the start of the crisis GMV has also kept up normal running of Focusoc, the satellite conjunction detection service and the extended space catalog of man-made objects of the 18th Space Control Squadron (18 SPCS), which GMV has been offering since 2018. The system is completely automated; the few manual tweaks the system has needed since March (generally due to problems with entry orbit formats) have been easily performed remotely.