Questions & Answers
SSC Space provides spacecraft operations and engineering services across the full mission lifecycle, from early mission design and preparation through LEOP, routine operations and end-of-life support. Our teams can support both the space segment and ground segment, including mission design, system engineering, flight dynamics, mission planning, monitoring and control, software solutions, and ground segment integration. This enables satellite operators, space agencies and commercial customers to prepare, operate and sustain missions safely, efficiently and reliably.
Spacecraft operations are critical because they help ensure that a satellite performs as intended once in orbit. This includes telemetry monitoring, spacecraft health and performance assessment, mission planning, command preparation and execution, anomaly detection and resolution, orbit control and manoeuvre planning, and coordination with ground segment systems. Together, these activities help safeguard mission performance, minimize operational risk, and support reliable spacecraft operations throughout the mission lifetime.
SSC Space provides satellite mission control and mission management services for institutional and commercial missions. With decades of experience supporting complex space missions, our teams combine operational know-how, engineering expertise and established processes to help customers manage spacecraft safely and efficiently. SSC Space can support missions from preparation and LEOP through routine operations, contingency handling and end-of-life activities, acting as a trusted extension of the customer’s mission team.
Yes. Spacecraft operations can be supported by an experienced external partner such as SSC Space, either as an extension of the customer’s own team or through a more comprehensive operational service model. This allows satellite operators to avoid building and maintaining a complete operational infrastructure themselves. This is particularly valuable because spacecraft operations are complex, mission-critical and often underestimated in terms of required expertise, processes, tools and continuity. By relying on SSC Space’s operational experience and engineering capabilities, customers can reduce operational burden and focus their resources on the mission’s end products, services and applications.
SSC Space supports reliable satellite mission operations through experienced engineering and operations teams, established processes, validated tools, configuration control, procedure validation, simulation and training, and structured anomaly response. Our quality management approach is supported by ISO 9001:2015 certification, reinforcing consistent and continuously improved ways of working across mission-critical activities. Combined with decades of spacecraft operations and engineering services experience, this helps customers reduce operational risk and maintain safe, efficient and dependable mission performance.
SSC Space supports a broad range of missions, including Earth observation, telecommunications, navigation, human spaceflight, astronomical missions, solar system exploration, planetary defense and Mars missions. Our Engineering Services teams provide mission operations, space engineering, science operations and software, and system engineering support across both the space and ground segments. This enables customers to benefit from tailored technical and operational expertise throughout the mission life-cycle, from preparation and operations to mission evolution and end-of-life support.
