Open Cosmos designs eight satellites

The  satellites are to be  part of the Atlantic Constellation (ESCA), a project managed by the AEE in collaboration with the ESA to strengthen Europe’s Earth observation capabilities.

The project, backed by with €30 million, will deliver 16 state-of-the-art satellites to create a linked, coordinated constellation capable of high performance and reliability in operational Earth observation missions.

Open Cosmos has passed the Critical Design Review (CDR), ensuring that the design of the mission (the satellites and the ground segment), the manufacturing, and verification plan are all now defined and frozen.

The CDR confirms that the design is safe and viable, enabling the start of satellite production, laboratory qualification, and software integration.

ESCA’s satellites will be based on Open Cosmos’ high-resolution (HR) satellite platform, an architecture used in more than 40 satellites currently under construction, many of which will be part of the Open Constellation.

These are microsatellites weighing approximately 100 kilograms, designed to offer high performance and reliability in operational Earth observation missions.

Each satellite integrates a set of complementary payloads (VNIR, AIS, IoT and GNSS-R) that, in combination, capture accurate information of land and sea surfaces.

This data translates into operational services, such as support for emergency management in the event of forest fires, floods or volcanic eruptions, beach erosion monitoring, maritime monitoring and the deployment of IoT connectivity services in remote areas.

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