
DSI Aerospace Technologie GmbH is a SME, founded in 1997 focused on aerospace technology. The fields of activity are dedicated to the engineering and development of solutions for data handling units, computers, information technologies, control systems and advanced communication systems in aerospace applications, such as mass memory modules, payload data handling systems, on-board computers, cryptographic systems, satellite communications and ground test equipment. DSI employs nearly 100 engineers with the firm’s headquarters located within the science park at the Bremen Airport in Germany. DSI is ISO 9001:2008 certified.
DSI’s main activities are to design, develop and manufacture mass memory modules for space applications. DSI is steadily developing compact mass memory units for the commercial market as well as space agencies. Within those projects certain trade-offs regarding architecture and EEE components are evaluated. SOPHOS is a unique opportunity for DSI to reuse the obtained knowledge and some single solutions and bring them to a higher level of maturity (TRL6). Apart from designing the mass memory unit for SOPHOS, DSI also acts as the project coordinator and leads the demonstration workpackage, including integration and environmental testing.


TELETEL is one of the few European companies established in the EGSE space market, having as customers most European space subsystems manufacturers. The evolution of its EGSE products to new technologies is a key factor for maintaining its market position and for opening new markets. R&D activities in this direction is the cornerstone for maintaining excellence and market status/growth. In the SOPHOS project, TELETEL will perform R&D activities in the area of EGSEs, which is the main business line of the company. As such, the SOPHOS R&D activities for TELETEL are fully aligned with the core company R&D strategy.
From the commercial point of view, the addressable market for TELETEL is the AIT/AIV market of test systems and EGSEs for satellites/spacecrafts. Its participation to the SOPHOS project will benefit the company twofold. First it will support maintaining its market share to the EGSE/AIT space market. Secondly, it will enable the company to enter the new promising EGSE/AIT market of nano/micro/small satellites in which at the moment it has limited presence. Finally, the partnership with DSI mainly and DLR, will allow TELETEL to support both companies in future commercial activities which will be based on the SOPHOS results.

As Germany’s research centre for aeronautics and space, DLR is naturally interested in playing a leading role in the design and implementation of future SAR remote sensing technology. The research area of space-borne onboard SAR processing is anticipated to become particularly active in future. Onboard SAR data processing at the level of raw data, such as the algorithm for advanced raw data compression to be developed in SOPHOS, is already an indispensable part of modern SAR missions. Research into incremental improvements to these techniques, in terms of quality but also performance, as intended in SOPHOS, will continue to be driven by the needs of both established remote sensing SAR missions as well as innovative “New Space” missions. Even more advanced onboard processing capabilities, such as the optimised SAR image formation algorithm developed in the context of SOPHOS, are expected to play an increasingly important role in future SAR missions and represent the cutting edge of research into onboard space-borne SAR processing. These types of algorithms are of great interest in low-latency, time-critical scenarios, such as disaster response or security and surveillance applications or even as a prerequisite for in-orbit object detection and classification.
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The Institute of Computer Engineering of the University of Lübeck deals with the architecture of hardware and software systems as well as their prototypical implementation and evaluation. Research focuses mainly on mobile autonomous robots, cyber physical systems, and integrated circuits in the form of SoCs. Current projects are concerned with both basic research and applications in the areas of Medicine, Environmental Engineering, Industry and Space.
Within the SOPHOS project UZL is mainly responsible for the performance analysis and acceleration of application specific software, such as compression for SAR data as well as on-board elaboration of radar images that are of great interest in low-latency, time-critical scenarios, such as disaster response or security and surveillance applications.