Spaceopal

More specifically, Spaceopal is directly involved in managing operations for the tenth mission (L10) planned in the Galileo Programme, having provided four mission directors to the Mission Control Team. The Galileo System began Initial Services on 15 December 2016 and Spaceopal is actively supporting the completion of the system to expend the services up to full operational capability by 2020. More than 400 million devices are using Galileo today. Spaceopal is responsible for managing the entire Galileo satellite system and its performance: in particular, for the operations and control of the system, the network, its security, logistics and maintenance of the systems and infrastructure, the user support services. Spaceopal carries out these activities through the two Galileo Control Centres in Fucino (in Italy) and Oberpfaffenhofen (at the DLR site near Munich), as well as the GNSS Service Centre (Madrid) and a network of sites and stations distributed around the globe and connected by the Galileo Data Dissemination network.