Mission Types

Optical Payload Teams

The following missions illustrate typical engagement formats. Each mission can be fully tailored to match the client’s objectives, timeline, and technical context.

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Imaging Performance Budget review & risk assessment

Phase A / B / C

10–15 working days

Scope

  • Independent review of imaging performance budgets (SNR, MTF, LoS...)
  • Assessment of contributors (optics, detector, platform, operations)
  • Identification of critical performance drivers and sensitivities
  • Gap analysis versus mission requirements
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Typical milestones

  • Kick-off: Inputs/outputs confirmation, documentation delivery and scope alignment
  • 1-3 days: Documentation review (CONOPS, system/payload specification, datasheets, studies...)
  • 4-5 days: Review of performance budgets, hypothesis, models, coherence with imaging targets
  • 4-5 days: Top performance drivers identification, parametric sensitivity analysis
  • 1-2 days: Deliverables

Deliverables

  • Performance budget review report
  • Risk and sensitivity matrix
  • Mitigation recommendations

Image simulation & acquisition modeling tools development

Phase A / B

20-30 working days

Scope

  • Development of image simulation tools (end-to-end or modular)
  • Modeling of acquisition geometry, radiometry, motion and noise effects
  • Support to imaging performance prediction and mission trade-off studies
  • Adaptation and integration within customer internal toolchains
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Typical milestones

  • Kick-off: Definition of simulation objectives, scope, use cases and expected outputs
  • 2-3 days: Review of mission & imaging requirements, acquisition scenarios and existing tools
  • 4-6 days: Implementation of acquisition geometry, sampling and image formation models
  • 2-4 days: Implementation of platform-related effects (LoS error, STR noise, guidance error)
  • 4-6 days: Implementation of radiometric effects (MTF, SNR)
  • 4-5 days: Validation on representative scenarios and comparison with analytical budgets or reference data
  • 4-6 days: Documentation

Deliverables

  • Image simulation python tools
  • User documentation and modeling assumptions description
  • Reference use cases and validation test cases

Calibration & Validation preparation and execution support

in-orbit

On-demand

Scope

  • Definition, review or refinement of Calibration & Validation (Cal/Val) strategy and success criteria
  • Support to ground and in-orbit Cal/Val test planning, tasking and scheduling
  • Analysis of calibration data and image quality performance monitoring
  • Investigation of image quality anomalies and support to corrective actions
  • Technical support to in-orbit commissioning and early operations phases
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Deliverables

  • Cal/Val strategy review and support notes
  • Image quality and calibration analysis reports
  • Performance compliance and commissioning readiness assessment

Paylaod-Platform interface impact assessment

Phase A / B

On-demand

Scope

  • Assessment of platform contributors (thermal, pointing, stability)
  • Impact analysis on optical and image quality performances
  • Interface consistency checks between payload and platform
  • Support to payload–platform trade-offs
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Deliverables

  • Platform impact analysis report
  • Design recommendations

Independent technical oversight

All phases

On-demand

Scope

  • Independent technical expertise on a subject related to optical payload performance
  • Support to design reviews and technical decision-making
  • Early identification of performance risks
  • Interface between system, payload and image quality teams
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Deliverables

  • Technical review notes