[March 28, 2013] France : CNES signs mission control IT services deal [TendersInfo (India)] Tweet (TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) As per the reports, the French CNES space agency has chosen a consortium led by Atos to develop its future space mission control centres. Satellites are launched, put into orbit and piloted from a dedicated mission control centre for each space programme. The consortium, also consisting of Thales, Astrium, Scassi, Spacebel and Telespazio, will develop a line of ISIS (Initiative for Space Innovative Standards) systems, which will constitute a new standard for mission control centres. The ISIS standard will address mandatory space programme requirements in terms of performance, security and development over the next two decades. Atos is acting as the project manager across the programme, and is developing an IT architecture to support all system components that complies with military security standards. Atos will also adapt the generic ISIS solution to the needs of the MERLIN mission. Thales is responsible for system definition and architecture, creating the command/control and flight dynamics components, and system validation and integration. Thales is also in charge of adapting the generic ISIS solution for the CSO mission. (c) 2013 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]