Main Involvements on Earth Observation Programmes
Climate Change and Oceanography, Intelligence & Surveillance, Earth Explorers
Climate Change and Oceanography, Intelligence & Surveillance, Earth Explorers
Customers: SELEX ES, ESA
MTG is the next-generation European operational geostationary meteorological satellite system – a collaborative EUMETSAT/ESA program. In particular, the Lightning Imager is one of the two imagers carried by the MTG-I imaging satellites. In the frame of a contract with SELEX ES, SITAEL is designing the Pixel Processor ASIC for the Lighting Imager Payload.
Programme in progress
Customers: SELEX ES, Thales Alenia Space, ASI
COSMO-SkyMed second-generation is a constellation of four satellites and represents the technological evolution of COSMO-SkyMed. The system “watches” the Earth day and night and under any atmospheric condition through the use of high-resolution X-band radar systems. In collaboration with SELEX ES, SITAEL is developing the Control Momentum Gyro Assembly Control Unit (CMGA CU) of the COSMO-Skymed 2nd generation satellites.
Programme in progress
Customers: Syderal, AIRBUS DS, ESA
The objective of the EarthCARE mission is to make global observations of clouds, aerosols and radiation.To achieve this challenging objective the satellite carries four scientific instruments and circles Earth in a Sun-synchronous polar orbit crossing the equator in the early afternoon to optimise daylight conditions. The payload comprises two active instruments: a high-resolution atmospheric lidar and a radar, and two passive instruments: a multispectral imager and a broadband radiometer. SITAEL, as Syderal subcontractor, is developing the Mass Memory and Formatting Unit (MMFU) Power Supply Boards (PSB) for the EarthCARE Mission.
Programme in progress
Customers: NASA-GSFC
The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is the 2nd-generation of the orbiting laser altimeter ICESat, the NASA benchmark Earth Observing System mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics.
SITAEL is providing the HV Power supply system for the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) instrument.
Programme in progress
Customers: Apulia Region
SITAEL recently started the Phase A & B study for the development of an Earth Observation system composed by Panchromatic Chamber and Hyperspectral Optical Instruments in the frequency range from infrared up to thermal infrared.
Programme in progress
Customers: AIRBUS DS, ESA
The Sentinel-1 Mission is part of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Initiative whose overall objective is to support Europe’s goals regarding sustainable development and global governance of the environment by providing timely and quality data, information, services and knowledge. Sentinel-1 is an imaging radar mission at C-band aimed at providing continuity of data for user services. As subcontractor of AIRBUS DS, UK SITAEL is in charge of the DC/DC Converters development for the SAR Electronics Sub-system Transmit Gain Unit on board of the ESA Sentinel-1 satellite. As subcontractor of Thales Alenia Space Italia, SITAEL designed and produced a 16 channels High Power Command ASIC, for platform and payload control of Data Handling equipments of Sentinel-1 satellite.
Programme completed
Customers: Thales Alenia Space
Sentinel-3 mission falls within the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) joint initiative of the European Community and of the European Space Agency, which foresees the production of a series of satellites (called Sentinel), developed to provide a specific contribution in the field of the Earth space observations.The Sentinel-3 programme is dedicated to operational oceanography and global land application, thanks to its payload composed of a set of optical and microwave instruments. SITAEL, as subcontractor of Thales Alenia Space France, delivered the flight model DC/DC Converters for the SRAL-C Ku (SAR Radar and ALtimeter) Radio Frequency Unity (RFU), which is one of the instrument embarked on the Sentinel-3 satellite.
Programme completed
Customers: COMDEV, ESA
Swarm is the fifth ESA Earth Explorer Mission. The Swarm concept involves placing a constellation of three satellites in three different near-polar orbits to provide high-precision and high-resolution measurements of strength and direction of Earth’s magnetic field.As subcontractor of the Canadian company COM DEV, SITAEL took care of the development of the Low Voltage Power Supply (LVPS) and High Voltage Power Supply (HVPS) Units for the Canadian Electric Field Instrument (CEFI). The goal of the CEFI instrument is to characterize the electric field about the Earth by measuring the plasma density, drift, and acceleration at high resolution.
Programme completed
