About IMS Space Consultancy
IMS Space Consultancy GmbH is a dynamic company operating in the field of the satellite engineering and operations, currently providing consultancy for European Space Agencies. Our experience spans from Spacecraft Design to Operations and has grown in the years through the development of challenging projects and collaborations with a wide range of industrial partners and international organizations. The services provided by IMS include specialized consulting, project support, software development, and research.
- Project management: IMS provides an end-to-end support to for the development of Ground and Space segment. The expertise of IMS spans from the project definition, the detailed design, the Integration, Test and Validation, the launch and LEOP support until the commissioning and routine operational phase
- Satellite Design: IMS has a strong experience in Satellite subsystem design (AOCS, EPS, Thermal, DHSS (including OBSW specific function), RF) gained during requirement and design phase of Meteosat Second and Third Generation and of Metop and EPS Second Generation missions.
- Operations: IMS has a strong experience in supporting satellite operations and operation preparation gained with LEO and GEO missions at ESOC, and EUMETSAT. IMS provides support in satellite procedure preparation and testing according to the European standards for configuration management
- Satellite Simulators: IMS supports the preparation of requirements, the procurement and acceptance of a satellite simulator, providing the know-how of the European reference standards in terms of modeling and infrastructure.
- Mission Control Systems: IMS has a consolidated experience in providing support for tailoring of Mission Control System for the support to Satellite Validation Test and Operations. IMS provides the experience of the most commonly used standard for Satellite Telemetry and Telecommands (e.g. Packet Utilization Standard) and for the ground transport layer (e.g. Space Link Extension protocol and services). IMS has a strong experience in the SCOS2000 Mission Control System and in the whole MYCONIS infrastructure
- Verification and Validation: IMS has a strong experience in Validation and Verification of complex systems (e.g. Satellite Ground Segment), developed in several operational environments. IMS provides the support for managing in an optimal way the Verification and Validation processes according to the European quality standards.
- Space Debris: IMS provides support for space debris modelling, orbit determination, On-call service for collision avoidance, re-entry prediction , LEOP and spacecraft contingencies.
- Astro-dynamics: IMS provides mission analysis expertise for phase 0/A interplanetary and Lagrange point missions, as well as flight dynamic support during the operations of interplanetary and Earth-bound missions.
- Navigation: IMS provides support for GNSS system developments, precise OD, and on-call support for provision of data to external customers