OpenSpace® Architecture: A Software-Defined Ground System That Keeps Pace with Space

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Agility at the Heart of Your Ground System

The explosive growth of satellites, demand for bandwidth and rapid changes in missions have outpaced hardware-centric ground architectures that cannot reconfigure or scale fast enough.

To support modern space operations, the industry now requires a ground architecture that can adapt to customer demand and support new technologies.

The OpenSpace Platform is built from the ground up as a cloud-native, software-defined ground system that keeps pace with space.

OpenSpace Platform:
Built for Dynamic Operations

The OpenSpace Platform is built on an innovative, open and unified architecture that supports a range of markets including Earth Observation/Remote Sensing, satcom and the military/government.

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Open

Uses industry standards and open interfaces.

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Software-Defined

Leverages virtualization and modern networking principles.

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Digital

Fully digitized using the DIFI standard.

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Secure

Takes advantage of a Zero Trust Architecture.

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Cloud Native

Containerized for scale, high-availability and redundancy.

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Dynamic

Orchestrates services and resources seamlessly.

OpenSpace: The Adaptive Next Generation Ground System

The OpenSpace Platform was built from the ground up and includes three layers:

1. OpsCenter: Design, monitor, and control (hardware and virtual functions), troubleshoot and report on services across the ground system.

2. Controller: Directs how service chains are deployed and can automatically spin service chains up or down to support changing conditions.

3. Virtual Network Functions: Software functions that are connected into service chains to be deployed as services.

OpenSpace Platform Architecture Diagram showing OpsCenter, Controller, VNFs, and General Compute Pool

Learn More About the OpenSpace Platform

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OpenSpace Explainer

In this four-minute video find out how a software-defined architecture can make your ground system more dynamic.

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White paper

OpenSpace: Enabling the Dynamic Ground

Read this white paper to learn how a software-defined architecture enables a more agile ground system.

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Fact sheet

OpenSpace Platform

Read about the Platform and the capabilities in this short one-page overview.

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Find out how this architecture can benefit your operations with the OpenSpace Platform – a flexible, secure and open virtual ground architecture built for continuous evolution.

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