Logica has been active in the space industry for over 40 years. We add value to the space industry’s supply chain in a variety of key areas. Firstly, we provide information technology solutions and services that ensure space assets perform perfectly first time, whether that is the ground or mission control infrastructure, or on board software. Secondly, we provide information systems and services that help space companies operate as efficiently and effectively as possible, for example having world class IT, networks or payroll. Lastly, we make sure that the satellites themselves deliver the benefits they promised, by using our strong knowledge of the downstream business sectors to deliver winning applications.

Our space clients include the European Space Agency, EADS Astrium, Eumetsat, Eutelsat, the European Commission, Inmarsat, SES Global and Thales Alenia Space. Our in-depth space sector knowledge ensures that we contribute to many of the world’s most prestigious space programmes, including Cassini-Huygens, Galileo, GMES, Inmarsat 4, MSG, MTG, MTSAT, Rosetta, Skynet 5, and XMM-Newton. We are a founder partner of the International Space Innovation Centre with lead roles in the Applications Innovation Centre, the Security and Resilience Unit, and the Climate and Environment Monitoring Service (CEMS).

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• Our systems produce weather satellite images for more than two billion people
• We are Europe’s leading space security company: we are delivering the Galileo security facilities and working to make many other European space programmes secure.
• We delivered the Galileo satellite constellation control facility that will control all Galileo’s 30 satellites
• We supply systems that validate GPS navigation messages, ensuring their safe use by the aviation industry.
• We provided the flight software for the Huygens probe, which successfully landed on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – more than one billion miles from Earth

Our highly qualified people bring years of knowledge and experience to space projects. To meet your commercial requirements, we bring in specialists from across our business, including experts in commercial telecoms, intelligent transport systems, security, environmental regulation, geographical information and digital mapping services. For example, we are the prime software contractor within the Paradigm Secure Communications team for Skynet 5, designed to meet the needs of the UK’s armed forces. Our commercial telecoms experience provides over one million lines of software code integrated together with 40 commercial products to enable Paradigm to delivery services to their customers. Underpinning our knowledge of space systems is our technical excellence in IT system development and integration and a proven track record in outsourcing provision. We help you to identify the business case for investment in a space market, drawing on our knowledge of market and technology trends and space mission concepts. We can also help to create the business model best suited for each project.