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November 11th, 2011
GMV To Provide The Paz Satellite Control Center

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The mission control center of the new Spanish satellite Paz, due for launch at the end of next year, will be provided by GMV. The contract includes all platform-planning and image-capturing aspects, orbital control and antenna pointing plus management and monitoring of communications and onboard equipment. GMV will also provide the radar-image-distribution and user-management system. Paz is a military earth-observation satellite orbiting at a height of 514 kilometers above the poles. It has been designed for applications of surveillance, high resolution mapping, border control, tactical support on foreign missions, crisis and risk management, assessment of natural disasters, environmental control and maritime surveillance. Each day it will cover over 300,000 square kilometers of the earth’s surface. Read More