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Not many people can claim to be at the heart of science planning, analysis and archiving for all European Space Agency - ESA planetary missions. Starion's Alfredo is one who can! Based in Madrid, Alfredo is the SPICE Service Lead at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC). This means he supports operational missions such as Mars Express, ExoMars, BepiColombo, Solar Orbiter, JUICE and Hera. He is also working on missions in development, including Comet-Interceptor, which is scheduled for launch in 2029, and M-MATISSE. Alfredo cites planetry flybys as his working highlight, knowing they are often capturing images of planets or parts of planets never previously seen. Learn more about his role and how he unwinds outside work: https://lnkd.in/e-JWeFFQ #MeetTheTeam #StarionCareers?

Starion is proud to have contributed to ACTING's achievements during the past two years in our role as technical coordinator. Now, we’re focusing on the next two years of the cyber defence training platform’s development. ? Working alongside 27 other partners from 13 European Union (EU) Member States, Starion’s experts will be among those undertaking rigorous validation scenarios and stress-testing the platform to ensure its resilience and effectiveness. 2025-2026 will also involve completing the project’s go-to-market strategy, readying ACTING to achieve its high Technical Readiness Level (TRL) objective and lead the next generation of cybersecurity preparedness. ? We’re looking forward to continuing our fruitful #cybersecurity partnership with all the ACTING Project stakeholders!

Our team based at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Spain makes a significant contribution to the #Euclid mission's Scientific Archive System, which distributes mission data to the scientific community, as well as maintains and operates the Data Processing System.

Model-based system engineering (MBSE) involves a major shift in the way complex systems are designed, developed and verified. Unlike traditional approaches that rely heavily on documents, MBSE uses models as the primary way of exchanging information and decision-making.? ? Why is this a good idea? Using MBSE enhances efficiency, reduces errors and provides a clearer and more consistent framework across all of the phases of a system's life cycle. ?? Recently, Paloma Maestro Redondo, System Engineer and Project Manager in Starion’s System Engineering team, has been sharing insights into MBSE. These are based on Starion's MBSE team’s extensive experience of supporting organisations to implement MBSE and undertaking projects to advance data exchange between tools. This includes integration with CDP4-COMET, which can act as a modelling hub. ?? Whether you've just started considering MBSE or want answers on a specific aspect of MBSE, check out this overview of the team’s advice and tips, including which industries can benefit and how to make the transition to MBSE.?https://lnkd.in/dbZBdRBF #SystemEngineering #MBSE #EngineeringModels #DataExchange?#CDP4COMET

If you are involved in business continuity planning, cybersecurity or risk management, this workshop on Friday from the DYNAMO Horizon Europe project 101069601 is one not to be missed. ?? Date: Friday 21 March 2025 ? Time: 11:00 CET / 10:00 GMT In #DYNAMO, business continuity management and cyber threat intelligence are interconnected to improve the resilience of critical infrastructures. Starion is a partner in the DYNAMO project, which is funded by Horizon Europe. ? #Cybersecurity #BusinessContinuity #RiskManagement #CriticalInfrastructures #Resilience #Training

Starion Italia has started developing a generic AI-based image processing software programme that will improve efficiency and performance. The Versatile Intelligent Processing Enhancement and Refinement chain (VIPER) project, funded by the Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)), will initially focus on use cases in the space domain. However, it will be an adaptable AI application encompassing commonly repeated tasks that can be used with any computer vision systems, significantly speeding up the time required to develop AI solutions. During the first stage of the project, our AI experts will use VIPER to improve the efficiency and performance of existing systems within two use cases, demonstrating the capabilities and potential of this AI chain approach. Both involve the analysis and processing of space-related data: the first will use satellite Earth observation (EO) data to identify illegal landfills, while the second will focus in another direction, using telescope data to identify near-Earth objects (NEOs). Read more about VIPER here: https://lnkd.in/ex2AEBFr ------------------------ Starion Italia ha avviato lo sviluppo di un software generico di elaborazione delle immagini basato sull'intelligenza artificiale che migliorerà l'efficienza e le prestazioni. ? Il progetto Versatile Intelligent Processing Enhancement and Refinement chain (VIPER), finanziato dall'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), si concentrerà inizialmente su casi d'uso nel settore spaziale. Tuttavia, si tratterà di un'applicazione di IA adattabile che comprende compiti comunemente ripetuti e che può essere utilizzata con qualsiasi sistema di visione artificiale, accelerando in modo significativo il tempo necessario per sviluppare soluzioni di IA. ? Durante la prima fase del progetto, i nostri esperti di IA utilizzeranno VIPER per migliorare l'efficienza e le prestazioni dei sistemi esistenti nell'ambito di due casi d'uso, dimostrando le capacità e il potenziale di questo approccio a catena dell'IA. Entrambi prevedono l'analisi e l'elaborazione di dati spaziali: il primo utilizzerà i dati satellitari di osservazione della Terra (EO) per identificare le discariche abusive, mentre il secondo si concentrerà in un'altra direzione, utilizzando i dati dei telescopi per identificare gli oggetti vicini alla Terra (NEO). ? Per saperne di più su VIPER, cliccare qui: https://lnkd.in/ex2AEBFr

????Starion experts based at the European Space Agency - ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) will be undertaking real-time analysis of close-up images of Deimos (one of Mars's two moons) during tomorrow's flyby of the Red Planet, in order to help with calibration of the Hera spacecraft's instruments before it reaches the Didymos binary asteroid system. This is part of a two-stage experiment to learn more about these asteroid systems and explore options to deflect asteroids that may collide with Earth in future. Starion’s Alfredo Escalante Lopez, who is leading the SPICE software operations team at ESAC, says the speed of the flyby and the narrow focus of Hera’s Asteroid Framing Camera (AFC) make it a highly sensitive challenge. Hera will take images of Deimos from around 1,000km and of Mars from around 5,000km. “The AFC's field of view is very narrow – just a few [5.5] degrees – and the flyby will be very fast, so the observation timing needed to be planned extremely carefully,” he explains. Other members of the SPICE team working on Hera include SPICE Service Engineers Ricardo Valles Blanco from Starion and Rafael Andrés Blasco. Read more about tomorrow's planned flyby and the wider mission, and how Starion's experts have been supporting Hera since before launch:?https://lnkd.in/eZj-pz_m #HeraMission #Deimos #MarsFlyby #SpaceExploration

On Saturday, we celebrated International Women’s Day, recognising the incredible women shaping the future of space, cybersecurity and innovation. ?????? From breaking barriers to securing critical infrastructures, their contributions drive progress and make industries stronger. When opportunities are open to all, everyone benefits because diversity fuels innovation, resilience and success. Here’s to the women professionals, problem-solvers and innovators contributing to a more inclusive and secure future! ???? #IWD2025 #space #cybersecurity #innovation

Starion was delighted to join our Vodafone colleagues at MWC Barcelona this week to showcase SAFEPLACE, an innovative crisis response platform being developed within the European Space Agency - ESA Civil Security from Space (CSS) programme. #MWC25 allowed us to promote the project by presenting two essential elements, Starion's 'Crisis Assistant' chatbot and Vodafone's 'Network as a Sensor', to a wide range of international attendees and to Spanish national authorities including His Majesty the King of Spain and the Spanish Government delegation.? ??? ?? Several demonstrations in MWC25 were set up in collaboration with our partners Vodafone and WDNA to show the advantages of combining space and terrestrial services and data for emergency and disaster management. ?? When emergencies or catastrophes happen, SAFEPLACE will deliver a complete assessment to crisis managers through the Crisis Assistant, which is based on a large language model (#LLM). This will allow crisis operators and analysts to find the information they need to support rapid and accurate crisis management through a chatbot-style interface. SAFEPLACE is a 3-year project being led by Starion's teams in Belgium and Spain to develop a new solution that will provide prompt, up-to-date situational awareness information to crisis and disaster management organisations in Europe. There will be four pilot demonstrations, with the first ones happening in May (Belgium) and October (Spain) - more news on that soon! Discover more about SAFEPLACE: ?? https://lnkd.in/eHwN5Wvk ?? https://lnkd.in/eCU7U3uQ Ilaria Thibault, Ph.D., Silvia Mediavilla, Sara de la Fuente Franco, Carlos Alonso Laita, Rubén Pérez #Safeplace #CrisisResponse #CrisisAssistant #DisasterManagement #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SituationalAwareness #SpaceData

Starion is delighted to have shared our cybersecurity expertise through the participation of Cristian Petrollini in one of the sessions at this week's #CyberSEC2025Rome 2025 conference. ? Maximising cybersecurity for space is essential due to the reliance of all critical infrastructures on space-based services and data, the emerging types of cyber threats and increasing levels of cyberattacks. Implementing proactive protection, taking account of regulatory frameworks and information collaboration / sharing are all aspects that combine to make space and critical infrastructures more secure. ? Thank you to the organiser CybersecurityItalia – we look forward to future CyberSEC events and more insightful discussions on this topic! ? #SpaceSecurity #Cybersecurity #CyberResilience