Key participations in Military Space Surveillance and SDA

Ángel Gallego attended the 18th annual Military Space Situational Awareness Conference in London on 26-27 April. This event focuses on space surveillance from a military perspective, in the so-called Space Domain Awareness (SDA), and brings together Governmental Institutions and Industries from around the world to share their experience, innovation, challenges and future steps in this domain, sharing an environment of cooperation and opportunities to learn from each other.

The concept of SDA goes beyond the concepts of civil space surveillance (SSA/SST), in which GMV is already one of the uncontested leaders at European level, and deals with the detection, identification and characterisation of space objects of interest, to understand and describe their intentional behaviour. It is therefore of particular relevance in the military domain and is already becoming one of the fundamental pillars in Space Security and Defence.

With GMV's participation in this conference, we are sharing our experience in space surveillance accumulated over the years, now applied to the military field, and strengthening our position. GMV currently also has an important participation in several military space surveillance projects: development and provision of COTS for the German Military SSA Centre (Weltraumlagezentrum) and for the Space Surveillance Operations Centre (COVE) of the Spanish Air and Space Force, collaboration in military exercises (US DoD/DoC SACT's & Global Sentinel and USSF's JCO), highlighting the important role in the projects of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) dedicated to Space, in which SDA covers a large part of the activities. Therefore, these events allow us to learn about the latest developments, trends and best practices, demonstrating our commitment to provide innovative solutions responding to the needs of our customers in the domain.