Belgian User Support and Operations Centre

Exploitation of ESA payloads onboard International Space Station (ISS)

  • ISS-ASIM
    Facility responsible centre and operations of the external platform ASIM (Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor) for the observation of transient luminous events

  • ISS-FSL
    Facility responsible centre and operations of the Fluid Science Laboratory (FSL) hosting soft matter dynamics experiments

Preparation for future missions

  • ALT-PDGS
    Future hosting and exploitation of the Payload Data Ground System for ESA Earth Watch Mission ALTIUS (Atmospheric Limb Tracker for Investigation of the Upcoming Stratosphere)

  • CI-SDC
    Future hosting and exploitation of the Science Data Centre for ESA F-class Mission Comet Interceptor

Support to ground activities

  • SWESNET
    Project management for the consortium in charge of the pre-operation and further development of the ESA S2P Space Weather Service Network and its Portal (swe.ssa.esa.int). See more at swesnet.busoc.be.

  • PLÉIΛDES4BE
    Archiving of Pléiades 1A/1B images purchased by Belgian institutional users from the ORFEO Earth-observation Programme. See more at www.pleiades4belgium.be.

  • EnVision
    Document Management and Product Assurance for the VenSpec-H instrument on board the EnVision Venus orbiter

Operational support to mission exploitation

  • EPT
    Science data reception of the Energetic Particle Telescope (EPT) on board the Proba-V mission in support to the UCLouvain Centre for Space Radiation

  • NOMAD
    Support to the science operations of NOMAD (Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery) on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)