Products and Projects

MARSNAVCOM Positioning and Communication system for Mars

MARSNAVCOM is a study aimed at prototyping key technologies for a Mars positioning and communication system using Small Satellites. The proposed fleet of small satellites, Mars Comms/Nav, will provide services to Mars missions by allowing Earth-Mars data relay communication and localization services reducing complexity, weight and costs of the payloads and outsourcing the operations and…

Mars Surface Platform Capabilities

The Mars Surface Platform Capabilities (MSPC) ESA-funded study determines how to capitalize and improve on the Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) system of the 2016 ExoMars Schiaparelli mission. MSPC leverages the knowledge gained from ExoMars Schiaparelli, and converts its architecture it into a multi-purpose science platform of moderate size and cost. The Final Project Review on…

The Transpyrenean railways GIS Portal

The GIS portal illustrating the potential corridors for the New Trans-Pyrenees High Railway Axis and the respective environmental, functional and technical-economic studies was developed by our team at the Railway Technology Centre in Malaga, Spain.

G3PSTAR Space GNSS Receiver for Cubesats

Innovative space missions and services based on smaller platforms like cubesats depend on equally innovative payloads. Space-based services in the New Space arena such as in-orbit servicing – the refuelling or reparing of satellites – or collision avoidance services – increasingly necessary due to the growing number of satellites in orbit – depend on knowing…

SPACEWAYS Space Traffic Management

Did you know that there are more than 6000 satellites in orbit around the Earth right now? The accumulation of Space Debris particularly in low-earth orbits is one of the most pressing threats to the long-term sustainability of space operations, as it poses a series of risks and costs ranging from loss of the payload,…

ADIF in your mobile

Elecnor Deimos develops for ADIF a mobile application that provides real-time information on train locations and available services to the users.

gs4EO

The gs4EO suit, developed after more than a decade of work for ESA Earth Observation Missions, can be used to customize the ground segment according to the customer’s requirements.

KYROS

KYROS is a location-based services platform that enables the positioning, management and control of mobile resources for different applications split into three product families that monitor people, vehicles, and assets.

GALILEO

Galileo is Europe’s own global navigation satellite system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. Elecnor Deimos is in charge of the development of three Galileo Ground Mission Segment Main Facilities as prime contractor, participating also in the space and user segments.

Maritime Surveillance, Control and Communications System

The MSCCS system developed by Deimos provides support against piracy and other illegal maritime practices, effective frontier surveillance and port access control.

GLIMPS

GLobal MonItoring of MicroPlastics using GNSS-Reflectometry (GLIMPS) goal is to produce global maps of microplastics concentration in the oceans using multi mission GNSS-R data.

SEOSAT/INGENIO

Ingenio is an optical high-resolution imaging mission devoted to providing multispectral land optical images to different Spanish and European civil, institutional and government users in which Elecnor-Deimos has provided a significant contribution along the mission definition and implementation, focused on ground segment activities devoted to the exploitation of the on-board instrument data received in Earth.

7SHIELD

7SHIELD will develop a holistic framework enabling the deployment of innovative services for the cyber–physical protection of ground segments. DEIMOS will provide a simulated scenario where 7SHIELD platform will be tested.

REVLANGNC

With the support of ESA, and funded by Romania through GSTP, Elecnor Deimos reaches a critical milestone in activities towards the development of GNC technologies to enable the reusability of launch and re-entry systems.

COASTNET

CoastNet is a near-real-time monitoring system for coastal areas that provides a geoportal for free visualization and access of monitoring data and associated products through a geoportal powered by Elecnor Deimos.

FSSCAT

The FSSCAT mission, launched by the beginning of September 2020, won in 2017 the Copernicus Masters Sentinel Small Sat Challenge award promoted by ESA and has been developed by a consortium led by Elecnor DEIMOS.

RRTB

The European Commission under the H2020 program has granted more than €3 million to a consortium of 8 companies, Deimos Space included, in order to start developing a novel recovery system for small launch vehicles for the next 3 years.

SOLAR ORBITER

Solar Orbiter is an ESA mission with strong NASA collaboration, aiming to study the Sun from 42 million km (about a quarter of the distance between the Sun and Earth). Deimos has been involved since the very beginning of the mission in mission analysis activities with trajectory calculation for low thrust and resonance orbits, providing fundamental engineering services to the Solar Orbiter prime contractor.

CAPROS

The CAPROS project is intended to provide a comprehensive list of CA processes with clear identification of data and methods used in each of them, operational status and map to user feedback when possible.

APPIDE

The objective of APPIDE project is to develop an automatized thermographic inspection tool for solar photovoltaic plants inspection.

RETALT

In the RETALT project European industry and research are joining forces to develop the key technologies of reusable upright-landing rockets to raise the TRL up to 5 for most of the technologies investigated. The responsibility of Elecnor Deimos is the Flight Dynamics and the development of a Guidance, Navigation and Control concept for the reference configurations.

JUICE

Elecnor Deimos is the responsible of planetary protection and mission navigation activities, two critical aspects for the Jovian mission success.

DESS4SATOP

Deimos offers a supplementary service of optical observations and orbit determination, with the objective of evaluating a robust solution fully integrated in the operational system.

MARS SAMPLE RETURN

Elecnor Deimos is responsible of Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) mission analysis, for locating and capturing a container of mars samples, collected and launched into low mars orbit by previous missions, and ensuring their safe return to earth.

NEPTUNO

Deimos Engineering and Systems leads the NEPTUNO project “Advanced System of Global Maritime Surveillance based on Constellation of Low Orbit satellites” ITC-20181151 of the Feder-Innterconecta program granted in the 2018 call.

LAGRANGE

Elecnor Deimos, is the responsible of the mission analysis of ESA LAGRANGE Mission in the OHB consortium, exploring interplanetary transfer to SEL5 as a phasing trajectory of 60 degrees in the Earth orbit around the Sun.

ORBEX LAUNCH VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT

Elecnor Deimos invests in Orbex, the British company with which Deimos collaborates in the development of prime launchers, and becomes the preferred supplier of Orbex in critical launch systems, including guidance, navigation and control system (GNC).

AZUL

The project named AZUL, performed by Elecnor Deimos, is aimed at studying the feasibility of launching small satellites in the Azores (Malbusca, Santa Maria). The conclusions are successful.

DISCOVERER

The objective of DISCOVERER is the study of smaller, lighter and cheaper Earth Observation satellites, of higher resolution and operating in VLEO. Elecnor Deimos contributes in this project with the design and analysis of platform technology, and with the system requirements at the integration level.

EO-ALERT

Elecnor Deimos coordinates EO-ALERT, a EU R+D project of H2020 2017 space call, to achieve very high throughput and very low latency in the delivery of Earth observation images and image products.

NEXTGEOSS

NEXTGEOSS, lead by Deimos from Portugal, focuses on a fundamental change to facilitate the connectivity to the European and global data centres with new discovery and processing methods to support innovation and business.

D80 TITAN

D80 Titan was designed by Elecnor Deimos to accommodate different types of cameras and sensors up to a total weight of 30 kg

SIMOCEAN

SIMOCEAN, a project led by Deimos Engenharia, is integrated in the initiative of the Portuguese Government to develop a set of coordinated systems providing access to national marine data

REDSHIFT

ReDSHIFT will design a spacecraft developing and testing new technologies aimed at increasing demisability, shielding and protection, and able to accommodate de-orbiting devices for passive re-entry

DEIMOS-2

Deimos 2 is the second Earth observation satellite mission developed by Elecnor Deimos. With an expected life-time of more than 7 years, Deimos-2 is an agile, high resolution satellite that became the only European fully-private satellite capable of providing sub-metric multispectral imagery.

EXOMARS

ExoMars is the Mars exploration programme established by the European Space Agency in partnership with the Russian Federal Space Agency and Elecnor Deimos has been chiefly involved in the end-to-end mission design and analysis: from launch to Mars.

Deimos Sky Survey

DEimos Sky Survey (DESS) provides Elecnor Deimos with operational capabilities across all the stages of the space environment surveillance process.

O2 Priority Tickets

“Priority Tickets” developed by Deimos, is the mobile app being used by O2 in order to allow its users to buy tickets for the concerts that the company organises all over the UK

G3 Receiver & RF Data Grabber

G3 is a flexible GNSS receiver for the processing of GPS and Galileo signals and real-time digital signal streaming to PC developed by Elecnor Deimos.

SAFIY

SAFIY is a smart Application for Feature extraction & 3D modelling using high resolution satellite Imagery. The system provides extra, compatible data on buildings, roads, water and vegetation using high resolution optical EO data acquired by the DUBAISAT-2 and DEIMOS-2 satellites.

SMOS

ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is dedicated to making global observations of soil moisture over land and salinity over oceans. Elecnor Deimos has been linked to the project since 2003, defining the processing algorithms, managing the Ground Segment and the instrument monitoring tool.

PROBA-3

The Rendezvous experiment, lead by Deimos from Portugal, will be the in-orbit validation of Deimos visual-based GNC technologies for formation flight in the Proba-3 mission, ESA’s – and the world’s – first precision formation flying mission.

GISAL

GISAL is a Smart City platform for public street lighting management providing greater energy efficiency, reducing costs in public street lighting systems, as well as better planning of maintenance activities, developed by Elecnor Deimos.

SENTINEL 3

Elecnor Deimos has been involved in the mission analysis, independent software validation and payload exploitation of Sentinel-3A, part of the fleet of satellites designed to deliver the wealth of data and imagery needed for the Copernicus programme.

IXV

Elecnor Deimos GNC technology flew the IXV from orbital conditions at 120km altitude down to a precise splashdown in the pacific. The IXV project focused in developing and flight-testing technologies and critical systems that are key for Europe’s future autonomous controlled reentry for return missions from low Earth orbit.

SUMO

SUMO is a monitoring system based on AIS and location services to improve personnel efficiency and safety on offshore wind farms construction, operation and maintenance, developed by Elecnor Deimos in an ESA Integrated Applications demonstration project.