Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Services

Create more dynamic, cloud-centric operations

Increase Service Velocity, Improve Service Agility, and Reduce Costs with Intelligent Orchestration and Automation

As more and more data is being collected and downlinked from Earth Observation (EO) and Remote Sensing (RS) satellites, the infrastructure on the ground must become faster, scalable and cost-effective.

Kratos’ OpenSpace® platform is the industry’s only fully virtualized, software-defined, and orchestrated satellite ground system platform that addresses the need for highly dynamic Earth Observation and Remote Sensing (EO/RS) services.

Webinar Recording: Leveraging Virtual Ground to Deliver Dynamic Earth Observation Services at Scale

According to Euroconsult, the demand for earth observation (EO) data and services will nearly double in the next 10 years and will be expected in higher resolution available at near real-time. In this webinar, find out how satellite operators and service providers can capitalize on this growth by leveraging virtual ground technologies to keep pace with the ever-increasing demand and deliver faster, scalable and more cost-effective EO services to their customers.

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Webinar Recording: Leveraging Virtual Ground to Deliver Dynamic Earth Observation Services at Scale
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Build a Better Competitive Position

Kratos introduces the OpenSpace EO/RS Service Chains. Running on the OpenSpace Platform, they help address the competitive challenges of today’s EO/RS Operations.

  • Get to Market Faster: Quickly and effortlessly support a variety of satellites and payloads at high bandwidths
  • Reduce CapEx: Runs on x86-based computers, public cloud, private data center environments or hybrid cloud environments
  • Reduce OpEx: Simpler network operations require fewer highly skilled resources

Quickly Support a Variety EO/RS missions

The OpenSpace EO/RS Service Chains have not been tailored for a particular spacecraft bus or processing function. They are designed to immediately work with the most common standards, protocols and waveforms needed by the Earth Observation and Remote Sensing community.

Linking You to Your Most Valuable Asset

The OpenSpace EO/RS Service Chains are designed for the unique needs of the EO/RS market. They enable a customer to download large volumes of data on the fly during the short time periods when satellites are over the ground system.

The OpenSpace EO/RS Service Chains include:

  • Virtualized TT&C
  • Virtualized Wideband Receiver
  • Virtualized Stream Processor/Recorder
Telemetry Tracking & Command (TT&C)
Earth Observation & Remote Sensing Service Chain
OpenSpace Service Chain
With EO/RS Service Chains, physical devices are replaced by virtual machines.

Advantages of OpenSpace Orchestration

The EO/RS Service Chains automate the tasks of service delivery by intelligently executing TT&C, high-throughput wideband data downlink and packet processing of mission data.

OpenSpace EO/RS Service Chains:

  • Accelerate time to download - deploy and reconfigure Service Chains in minutes
  • Scale on demand – grow without over-provisioning the ground network
  • Deliver high throughput downlinks – more than a 1 Gbps without specialized hardware
  • Provide cloud-centric operations - choose best downlink location based on mission
EO and Remote Sensing Service Chain

Manage and Monitor EO/RS Network Services Automatically

The OpsCenter dashboard provides a central location to design, test and activate an EO/RS service chain.

Service chain performance can be monitored and reviewed for quality and troubleshooting.

OpsCenter enables the management of ground system infrastructure including the physical network devices, RF gateway components and virtualized infrastructure in a single solution.

EO/RS services from the digitizer all the way to post satellite pass processing are completely automated.

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The EO & Remote sensing service chain is monitored and reported on using the OpsCenter dashboard.
Intelligent Control

OpenSpace Controller

The OpenSpace Controller ensures service-chains deliver the right options for the EO mission. It intelligently and automatically forms the virtual EO/RS Service Chains which can then be activated and de-activated dynamically to react to changes in supply, demand, and threat.

Learn More About the Entire EO and Remote Sensing Service Chain Products

EO and Remote Sensing Service Chain
OS-021 OpenSpace Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Chain

EO/RS service chains are cloud centric and can be activated and de-activated in tandem with satellite operations and user-generated demand. They dynamically react to changes in supply, demand, and threat.

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OpenSpace OpsCenter - Unified Management
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OpsCenter enables the management of ground system infrastructure including the physical network devices, RF gateway components and virtualized infrastructure in the form of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in a single solution.

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OpenSpace VNF Stream Processor/Recorder (OSPR)
OS-009 OpenSpace Stream Processor Recorder

Records satellite-based sensor telemetry or other payload data during a spacecraft pass, providing highly configurable options for CCSDS VCDU filtering and recording. The recording application supports real-time streaming of downlink data and routing to other processing chains in real-time.

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OpenSpace VNF Receiver (ORX)
OS-008 OpenSpace Wideband Receiver

Performs wideband signal processing of 600 Mbps of throughput to support downlinks across several hundred MHz of instantaneous bandwidth. This is an unmatched level of digital signal processing in software.

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OpenSpace VNF WAN Transport Protector (OWTP)
OS-010 OpenSpace WAN Transport Protector

Assures the transport of digitized IP packets across any potential impaired WAN links. The VNF protects application-specific data transfers against loss with no special router or network configuration.

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