Following the German Parliament’s approval, Indra has signed a contract with the National Procurement Office of the German Armed Forces to provide the country’s air force with a radar capable of detecting objects in low space orbits.
The system is designed to protect satellites in service from potential impacts with debris from other missions orbiting at high speed in an uncontrolled manner that could damage or disable them. It will also help protect them by monitoring any attempts by other satellites to approach them to jeopardise their missions or gather information about them.
The German Space Command will be tasked with operating this space surveillance radar by accessing it remotely from the space situational awareness centre located in Uedem.
Data on objects in near-Earth orbits will be cataloged and they will serve as the basis for dedicated tracking of objects of interest. Indra’s radar and other additional sensors available in the country, such as its recently acquired telescopes forming a network of sensors to enhance space situational awareness, will be used in combination for this purpose.
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