German Space Agency to use Lockheed Martin tool to track space debris – By Nathan Strout (C4ISRNET) / April 12 2021
WASHINGTON — Germany will use Lockheed Martin’s space situational awareness software to track objects in space, the company announced.
The German Space Agency opted for the company’s iSpace command and control system, which collects data from government, commercial and scientific sensors all over the world to track thousands of objects in orbit, Lockheed said in an April 6 announcement. The system alerts operators to anomalies or potential collisions and suggests mitigating actions.
“No other system offers real-time catalog maintenance, space event processing and sensor tasking in a highly scalable processing infrastructure for such a variety of sensors,” Amr Hussein, vice president of Lockheed Martin C4ISR Systems, said in a statement.
Lockheed Martin did not disclose the value of the iSpace contract with the Germany Space Agency, known as DLR, its German initials. iSpace will work with German sensors, including the tracking and imaging radar, the German Space Situational Awareness center optical sensor, and the German Experimental Surveillance and Tracking Radar, Lockheed Martin noted.
