Solenix went (almost) into space! Our first High Altitude Ballooning mission “Hugin’s Eye” launched on 29 June 2019 into the stratosphere. Hugin’s Eye started as a company-funded pet project with the goal to send a weather balloon, including its payload, in the heights above 30 Km.
The European Space Agency commissions bespoke software that is developed by a wide range of industry partners from different countries, with the added value that any resulting system becomes licensable to any organisation in an ESA member state. One very important aspect is to ensure licensability, i.e. the produced software does not infringe any copyright or third-party rights. Besides other roles, the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) is responsible for the Intellectual Property Management services within ESA.
We are very happy to announce that we have recently been awarded a new contract to support our customer EUMETSAT. In the scope of this contract, our Software Engineering Team will work with EUMETSAT’s Data Processing Systems and Applications Competence Area. The software applications to be maintained and evolved in this activity are bespoke and especially developed to meet EUMETSAT’s needs. They are used intensively in the processing of EO data products and, as a consequence, contribute directly to EUMETSAT’s core business. Initially the contract will support the following tools:
We are very happy to announce that we have been recently awarded a new contract to maintain and evolve some of the software applications available at the Space Weather Data Centre, which is part of the Space Situational Awareness Programme infrastructure. These applications offer a wide range of functionalities to various space weather communities with the aim of providing accurate and timely space environmental information.
Last month, Solenix attended the Kick-Off of the Open Geospatial Consortium's Testbed 15 initiative in Reston, Virginia, U.S.A.. For the third year running, Solenix participates in an OGC Testbed, the largest event of OGC's Innovation Program.
We are very pleased to announce that we have gained EUMETSAT’s trust to maintain and evolve two bespoke pieces of software, which were developed in-house to meet EUMETSAT’s needs for dissemination. The two packages are crucial to the daily operations of our customer, as they contribute to the handling of EUMETSAT’s core output: the meteorological product data. These two tools are:
On 28 March, Solenix gave 11 young girls the opportunity to have a closer look at the everyday life of a software engineering company.
The last week of September was one of the most important in the recent history of ESRIN, the Italian establishment of the European Space Agency, to which Solenix provides engineering and management support services since almost a decade.
Last week the 15th edition of the biennially conference on Space Operations took place in Marseille (France). This technical forum addresses state-of-the-art concepts, processes and tools in the area of space mission operations and ground systems and it attracts professionals and academia from all over the world.
Once more, Solenix was present in this conference with the participation of three of our colleagues, who presented the output of their work in different sessions of the event.