For more than 20 years, Astrium has developed and successfully used a large set of tools covering all the aspects related to spacecraft design and exploitation. In this context, Astrium today markets space application software and solutions that are available to the space community.

SYSTEMA

SYSTEMA is a software products line for space engineering, which offers in a highly interactive framework a large set of applications to model and analyze the spacecraft behavior. It relies on a basic toolkit to build the spacecraft geometry, define its orbit, its kinematics and on a large set of applications.

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THERMICA

THERMICA provides all the simulations needed to predict the temperature fields and so to design correctly the spacecraft and its thermal controllers. The THERMICA Suite is composed of two main packages: The first one is dedicated to translate the geometrical model and its environment into a mathematical model by computing all thermal fluxes and couplings. The second package called THERMISOL consists of computing the temperature field.

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SMART2

SMART2 is a tool that aims to design a space system and study its capacities. This tool allows the definition of earth observation space segment with different types of orbits (sun-synchronous, earth synchronous…), several satellites can be added per orbit type, defining the accessibility corridors of their instruments (field of view/resolution/incidence angle) and the image spectrum (visible/infra-red).

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QUARTZ

QUARTZ is an operational flight dynamics solution. It is developed by Astrium for its own control centre and for ground station’s satellite operators. For more than 10 years Astrium has been accumulating an extensive experience in developing and operating Flight Dynamics software for transfer and station keeping operations.

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