Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), will partner with Serco, the leader of the consortium awarded by the European Space Agency (ESA), to implement the DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP), a key element of the European Commission’s flagship initiative Destination Earth (DestinE).
The objective of DestinE is to develop highly accurate digital models of the Earth in order to monitor and predict the interaction between natural phenomena and human activities, anticipate extreme events, and adapt policies to climate-related challenges.
The DESP will be an open, user-friendly, flexible, and secure cloud-based computing system that will provide evidence-based decision-making tools, applications, and services. It will enable the development and exploitation of applications and services leveraging DestinE data, which will include data from ESA’s Earth Explorers, the Copernicus Sentinel series, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), and, over time, other major data holdings in Europe.
Thales Alenia Space is responsible for the run-time orchestration platform set-up, deployment, and operations, as well as all the cybersecurity management of the DESP Framework. Thales Alenia Space is also responsible for all the traceability services to trace models and data, in particular following user transformations.
Bertrand Denis, Thales Alenia Space VP of Observation and Science, commented, “Thales Alenia Space will bring into this project some of the new digital technologies embedded in its ground systems. This is a major success that will benefit from and also contribute to the digital transformation of Thales Alenia Space Ground Segment, initiated in 2018. Fully in line with its “Space for Life” vision, Thales Alenia Space is particularly proud to support the European Commission and ESA in achieving the sustainable development objectives of the DestinE program and to contribute to EU Green Deal and Digital Strategy.”
Click here to learn more about DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP).
