Musis
MUSIS ( MUltinational Space-based Imaging System for Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Observation ) was a multilateral European program for the development of a common core ground segment (generic user ground segment, UGS) for military satellite reconnaissance. It should provide an initial qualification from 2015. The countries of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Belgium belonged to the program. As a category B project under the umbrella of the European Defense Agency (EDA), it should be processed by the OCCAR .
The satellites themselves (the so-called space segments) should remain with their owners. However, strictly regulated access to a precisely quoted image capacity per user and room segment should take place via the UGS. The considered space segments were:
- Successor system to the French Helios II, called: Composante Spatiale Optique (CSO)
- Successor system to the German SAR-Lupe ; called SARah
- Successor system to the Italian COSMO-Skymed ; called: COSMO Second Generation (CSG)
- a Spanish long-range optical satellite system; called: Ingenio (formerly: Seosat)
Since access to an essentially civilian system of the ASI ( Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ) (max. 17% of the image capacity should be made available to all military users) had already been taken into account with CSG , other civilian satellites such as the German were briefly discussed Include TerraSAR-X, Tandem-X and EnMap systems.
With the meeting on 6./7. In May 2010, the program was essentially terminated, but this became apparent early on.
Web links
- France Steps up European Milspace Push. Aviation Week:, accessed April 22, 2008 .
- Space-control philosophy migrates to smaller nations. EETimes archived from the original on November 19, 2008 ; accessed on April 22, 2008 (English).
- MUSIS Ground System Deal Teeters on Edge of Collapse. Space News, accessed April 25, 2010 .