Integral Systems Europe, a satellite ground systems company and a subsidiary of US-based Integral Systems, has won a contract with Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, the French national space agency, to provide the fully integrated VENuS Receiving Kit. The system will include products from Integral Systems, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Newpoint Technologies.
According to Integral Systems Europe (ISE), the system will be installed at the Swedish Space Corporation’s (SSC’s) Kiruna ground station to ensure VENuS payload telemetry acquisition and transmission to Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales’s (CNES’s) mission segment.
Newpoint Technologies’ Compass network management system will monitor and control the system’s equipment and provide full capacity for remote system monitoring. Integral Systems’s Task Initiator solution will handle automation activities and communications management.
Bruno Dupas, president of ISE, said: We are extremely proud of our first contract with CNES in Toulouse. After our success on the MetOp program for Eumetsat, we continue to demonstrate that a combination of COTS products and Integral’s engineering capabilities provide the best value to our customers.
