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Overview

We are a company firmly committed to protecting our planet and improving the lives of its inhabitants.
We design high value-added Earth observation solutions to address current and future environmental and economic challenges. Thanks to our expertise in Information and geo-intelligence, we assess the integrity of our regions and understand the flows that affect their development and that of their population.

Our agile, creative approach, combined with our culture of innovation and duality, puts us in a position to offer comprehensive solutions and services. We work closely with our customers in three fields of activity: project management, through-life support and value-added services. As a meta-operator, we have the ability to combine different sources, technologies and suppliers, always staying true to our motto "Simplicity is the complexity you can't see".

Our expertise in the fields of space and digital technology mean we are able to effectively use the data generated by the new space revolution. We develop solutions that perfectly address the needs and technological maturity of our users, putting space within everyone's reach.

Controlling the entire value chain

Because we are committed to providing a high-quality, top-performance service, we support our customers from start to finish, from collection to delivery.

Acquisition

We leverage our in-depth knowledge of systems and markets to select the most appropriate information sources (optical satellites and radar, RF, AIS, drone images/videos, open-source data, external and on-site data).
Operation/Use

Given the massive amounts of data to be processed and the growing importance of data fusion, the processing phase has become crucial. We are able to carry out human and supervised analyses (IMINT/GEOINT), design automatic processing chains and develop Artificial Intelligence models.
Delivery

Our teams draw on their business expertise to share relevant information and analyses in various formats (reports, maps, anomaly detection, trend analysis, predictions, web and mobile platforms).

Our markets

Agriculture

As producing enough food to feed the planet becomes critical, it is essential to adopt sustainable practices that protect both our planet and our health. From space, we can provide profitable support to improve crop management.

Maritime

Maritime Domain Awareness is essential for dealing with threats, illegal activities (such as piracy, illegal fishing and smuggling) and protection of critical infrastructure at sea (including offshore platforms and submarine cables).

DEFENCE AND INTELLIGENCE

To monitor key areas and activities, reduce armed forces' vulnerability to attack, respond to critical events and anticipate threats, Telespazio offers a portfolio of high value-added services providing fast, detailed and immediately understandable information services.

Satellite data

Our imagery offer

Given the huge amount of commercial data currently available on the satellite imagery market, and its role as expert in the field of space and satellite operations for major customers, Telespazio France has forged a reputation as a key player, capable of assisting and guiding customers towards the most appropriate choice of data.

Access to an archive search platform, order management and scheduling of new acquisitions.

Access to a catalogue of tried-and-tested data from a host of different suppliers, thanks to partnerships managed and negotiated by the Telespazio group and its subsidiary e-GEOS.

Support from our teams, which keep constantly up to date will all the latest developments in terms of space technology and GIS applications.

Value-added image processing services to transform raw data into information adapted to different needs.

Radar constellations

Radar satellites carrying synthetic aperture radar (SAR) orbit the Earth and use an active SAR sensor to collect data during the day and night, regardless of cloud cover.

COSMO-SkyMed

COSMO-SkyMed: the ultimate SAR constellatio

- Résolution: 0.5 m to 100 m depending on modes and satellites
- Imaging swath: 10 x 10 km to 200 x 200 km depending on modes and satellites
- Mode: Spotlight, Stripmap, Pingpong, Quad Pol (only for CSGs), ScanSAR
- Revisit period: twice a day
- Number: 3 CSKs and 2 CSGs

The COSMO-SkyMed constellation, or "COnstellation of small Satellites for the Mediterranean basin Observation" is an Italian Earth-imaging constellation consisting of four identical satellites launched between 2007 and 2010 and supplemented since 2019 by new second-generation satellites. The current constellation is composed of three first-generation satellites still in operation and two second-generation satellites.

The COSMO-SkyMed is funded by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence, and the constellation is at the forefront of technology, using high-resolution radar sensors to observe the Earth during the day and night, in all weather conditions.

This programme provides global data to support a wide variety of applications, including risk management, forestry and environmental protection, exploration of natural resources, land use management, defence and security, maritime surveillance, food and agriculture management.
The second-generation COSMO-SkyMed programme provides improvements and guaranteed continuity with the first-generation satellites, while maintaining the high-quality, high-precision characteristics required for interferometry activities.

The programme is funded by the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), the Italian Ministry of Defence and the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and scientific research. Thales Alenia Space is prime contractor in charge of building the satellites, while Telespazio provides the ground segment and related logistics, and e-GEOS, a subsidiary of the Telespazio group, has exclusive distribution rights for COSMO-SkyMed data worldwide.

The COSMO-SkyMed satellite's payload is a multi-resolution, multi-polarized imaging radar working in X-band, with a broad range of resolutions (diverse resolutions, up to the best submetric on the commercial market). It is equipped with a fixed antenna, with electronic steering capabilities that can manage a large number of operative modes for image acquisition and internal calibrations.

> COSMO-SkyMed: download the constellation parameters

> Second-generation COSMO-SkyMed: download the constellation parameters

Optical constellations

Optical constellations use passive sensors to capture images comprising several spectral bands, capable of providing detailed space information. However, the images they take during the day are affected by poor weather conditions.

BlackSky

BlackSky: very high revisit period for tracking

- Resolution: between 0.8 m and 1.2 m depending on the satellite
- Footprint: 6 x 4 km
- Mode: colour
- Revisit period (*at present (30 satellites planned by 2025): up to 8 repeats on average, depending on the latitude
- Number*: 13 satellites

The BlackSky constellation is a constellation of high-resolution imagery microsatellites (1 m), developed by BlackSky Global, formerly a subsidiary of Spaceflight Industries, and operated commercially. The constellation aims to provide cost-effective images of the Earth with a higher temporal resolution.

BlackSky is an American company, supplier of geospatial data with a very high revisit period, perfect for surveillance and intelligence missions. To ensure images are delivered as quickly as possible, the company uses its own constellation of satellites and operates a network of antennae distributed across the globe. All the ground stations are interconnected, providing real-time access to images with no transmission delays.

BlackSky's proprietary constellation of satellites stands out from its competitors for its ability to provide images of targeted places on Earth several times a day, in variable conditions. The company has a vertical structure and leverages an agile approach to design and produce proprietary satellites, communication between spacecraft and ground segment infrastructure, and fully automatic command and control features.

The Telespazio group and its sister company Thales Alenia Space are fully involved in the development and marketing of the constellation, as exclusive distributor of images for institutions and the European armed forces ministries, and payload designer, respectively. The full range of technological innovations make BlackSky a world-class supplier of geospatial intelligence images and products with a high revisit period, for enhanced site monitoring and understanding of activities on the Earth's surface.

The constellation currently has 13 operational microsatellites, each with a theoretical service life of 4 years, and the aim is to have 30 satellites by 2025. Most of the satellites in the BlackSky constellation were launched into mid-inclined orbit in order to offer frequent revisits, last-minute responsiveness and low latency from data collection to delivery in medium latitudes of between 53.5°N and 53.5°S, where most of the human population lives and most critical activities occur.

> BlackSky: download the constellation parameters

> BlackSky: download the instrument parameters
SuperView

SuperView: very high revisit period for tracking

- PAN=0,5m, MS=2m
- 12km
- long strip, multiple strips collect, multiple-point targets collect, and stereo imaging
- 2 days
- 4 satellites

The SuperView-1 or GaoJing-1 constellation is composed of four Chinese commercial remote sensing satellites operated by Beijing Space View Tech Co Ltd, which is also the official distributor of the satellite images collected. The main obective of this programme is to provide data for defence and intelligence, land and forest management, high-accuracy mapping, security and maritime surveillance.

The first two satellites, SuperView-1 01 and Superview-1 02, were launched from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China, in 2016. SuperView-1 03 and SuperView-1 04 joined the programme in January 2018.

The four SuperView-1 satellites are currently running on the same orbit at an altitude of 500 km and phrased 90° from each other.

The GaoJing satellite is the first Chinese "very high-resolution" Earth observation satellite. Apart from two solar panels, it is equipped with sensors collecting imagery of both panchromatic (0.5 m) and multispectral (2 m) resolution with the 60 km x 70 km single scene maximum.

The constellation is very agile and operates in four acquisition modes:

- stereo imaging
- long strip
- multiple strips collect
- multiple point targets collect

> SuperView: download the constellation parameters

> SuperView: download the instrument parameters

New technologies and fields of expertise

Drone

Drones are synonymous with innovation, new services, new business models and economic growth.
Telespazio has invested in this field with the goal of developing new, innovative solutions, in areas where this vehicle is an extremely useful complement to satellites.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

By using innovations such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine/Deep Learning techniques to process massive levels of data traffic, especially satellite imagery, Telespazio is a trailblazing developer of optimized, responsible space applications.

InSAR

SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferometry is a remote sensing technique for measurung ground and infrastructure movements with millimetric accuracy over large surface areas.

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