Telespazio UK a subsidiary of Telespazio (a joint venture between Leonardo, 67%, and Thales, 33%), has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver its Platform Interoperability Building Block Evolution programme as a next phase of the previous Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Common Architecture (EOEPCA) contract. The project, entitled EOEPCA+, will provide a reference architecture that can combine Earth Observation (EO) cloud and platform capability through the evolution and development of a complementary set of innovative building blocks.

The fifth edition of the Telespazio Technology Contest (#T-TeC) was presented today at the 74th International Astronautical Congress (IAC).