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ESA Earth observation infrastructure development

Overview

The European Space Agency (ESA) is advancing European Earth observation capabilities through new architectural and digital infrastructure initiatives.

Initially, Leonardo was awarded a contract to define the architecture for the future EU Earth Observation Governmental Service (EOGS). This study aims to enhance Europe’s autonomous decision-making in security and defence by developing a sovereign, resilient, and federated end-to-end architecture that integrates national, institutional, and commercial assets.

Following this, ESA awarded a 30-month contract to OVHcloud and CGI to design and deploy the Digital Earth Observation (Digital EO) infrastructure. This project focuses on creating a decentralized digital backbone to process and store satellite data, with the capacity to manage over 500 petabytes by 2035. The infrastructure will utilize sovereign cloud services and high-performance computing to support programs such as Copernicus and the Destination Earth initiative, with initial deployment planned across Italy, France, Germany, and Poland.

Entities

European Space Agency · Leonardo · OVHcloud · Copernicus · Thales Alenia Space

Timeline

  1. [TECHNOLOGY] 4 sources
    ESA awards Digital EO contract to OVHcloud and CGI

    ESA has contracted OVHcloud and CGI to build the Digital EO platform, a decentralized infrastructure designed to manage over 500 petabytes of satellite data for European scientific and commercial use.

  2. [TECHNOLOGY] 4 sources
    Leonardo awarded ESA contract for EU Earth Observation architecture

    Leonardo has secured an ESA contract to design the architecture for the EU Earth Observation Governmental Service (EOGS), supporting European security and defence autonomy through space data.

Sources

almouwatin.com · analisidifesa.it · armadainternational.com · btboresette.com · electronicsweekly.com · emarketerz.fr · silicon.fr · tekedia.com