ESA’s future satellite control centre facility

Experience the spacecraft control centre of the future in this short video visualisation from the facility’s architect.

Teams at ESA’s ESOC mission control centre fly ESA’s spacecraft to Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and the Sun, operate leading space observatories such as Euclid and Gaia, and control a fleet of ESA Earth Explorers and European Union Sentinel satellites. As the number and complexity of missions flown from ESOC grows, the centre faces new challenges. ESA has signed a contract for the development of a new satellite control facility at the ESOC site that will provide the capability to support at least two launches or critical operations in parallel. It will also host a modernised, energy-efficient and high-availability data centre for the centre’s critical Mission Operations Information Technology and will provide an attractive and modern workplace that facilitates team collaboration while remaining extremely adaptable and capable of keeping up with the rapidly evolving domain of satellite operations.