Spaceit recently signed an agreement with RHEA System to participate in the development of the new Cyber-Security Operations Centre (C-SOC) for the European Space Agency (ESA).
Spaceit is a part of a consortium, led by Leonardo as Prime Contractor, of 19 companies who will design, implement, build, validate and operate ESA’s new Cyber-Security Operations Centre (C-SOC), a key infrastructure for the economy and security of Europe. RHEA System, as Subprime, is the technical and managerial coordinator of a group of six companies including Spaceit.
Spaceit’s cloud-based mission operations platform and simulators will be used to validate different functions of the C-SOC.
Operational from 2024, the C-SOC will strengthen the cyber protection of European space systems through the management and monitoring of vulnerabilities 24 hours a day, and improving security for ESA Member States and partners.
Thanks to a distributed architecture, the new Cyber-Security Operations Centre will be able to provide resilient and redundant security coverage to the entire ESA infrastructure, monitoring and managing its vulnerabilities 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, and improving security for ESA Member States and partners.
Spaceit, an Estonian space technology startup, offers infrastructure for satellite communications as a service. Spaceit has developed a single, cloud-based platform for mission control, ground station services and cyber defence exercises.
In addition to satellite command and control features, Spaceit platform is aggregating various ground station services, providing cross network communication worldwide. Furthermore, Spaceit platform is used in large-scale live fire cyber defence exercises (such as NATO CCDCOE’s Locked Shields with over 3,000 participants), as well as development, testing and validation of different satellite communications systems. Spaceit conducted successful pre-seed fundraising in 2021.
RHEA System is a subsidiary of the RHEA Group. The Company provides operations engineering, ground segment engineering, mission analysis, and product assurance. RHEA System offers engineering support to mission classes including geostationary spinning spacecraft, three-axis stabilized spacecraft, deep space encounter missions, and manned flight systems. RHEA Group is an international, privately-owned company with headquarters in Belgium, focusing on providing innovative, market ready solutions in cyber and space engineering, for both commercial and institutional customers. RHEA Group works across Europe and Canada from 11 countries where the company is established, with over 600 staff located within client sites, as well as in own offices.
Leonardo, a global high-technology company, is among the top world players in Aerospace, Defense and Security and Italy’s main industrial company. Organized into five business divisions, Leonardo has a significant industrial presence in Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland and the USA, where it also operates through subsidiaries that include Leonardo DRS (defense electronics), and joint ventures and partnerships: ATR, MBDA, Telespazio, Thales Alenia Space and Avio. Leonardo competes in the most important international markets by leveraging its areas of technological and product leadership (Helicopters, Aircraft, Aerostructures, Electronics, Cyber Security and Space). Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange (LDO), in 2021 Leonardo recorded consolidated revenues of €14,1 billion and invested €1.8 billion in Research and Development.
