GMV Wins Eumetsat Deal for Optical Data Services for Meteosat Satellites

Eumetsat satellite. Photo: Eumetsat

GMV has won a new contract from the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, known as Eumetsat, the company announced Feb. 8. The contract is for the provision of operational optical data services to support the flight dynamics operations of its fleet of Meteosat (MSG and MTG) satellites in Geostationary Orbit (GEO).

The main purpose of the service is the regular provision of high accuracy optical data and orbit determination solutions, fully integrated with the Eumetsat operational environment. This information will support the orbit determination, maneuver estimation and ground station calibration operations at Eumetsat and complement schedule or contingency station outages. The nominal duration of the contract is three years with two optional yearly extensions.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the contract is for three years, with two optional yearly extensions.

With this new service, GMV strengthens its strong commitment with Eumetsat, being one of its main providers of ground segment software infrastructure. This includes the flight dynamics systems for the Metop, Metop-SG, Sentinel-3, Sentinel-6 and MTG satellites.