By Jason Ford A company in England is to design and develop essential controls that will help prevent one of the world’s most ambitious space missions from failing…read more

Oxford, UK | 16 May 2013. Tessella, the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services is delighted to announce that it has received a Contract for the development and design of the Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem (AOCS) for ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission. The project will last for approximately 4 years and be worth [...]

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ESA have funded a study aimed at prototyping several sensor and actuator models to be used for Attitude Orbit Control System (AOCS) performance analysis and validation on a range of test environments, including Avionics test benches. The development of such models offers the potential for reductions in effort through the reuse of validated unit models [...]

David Whittle, Sector Director for Space, Government and Defence at Tessella, discusses why spacecraft design brings its own set of challenges read more

Download the latest news from Tessella (PDF). In this edition: Can you win the Big Data Arms Race? We are in the middle of a Big Data arms race, and it’s gathering pace. The aim seems deceptively simple: gain an edge via better exploitation of data. Since future success is seen to rest in the [...]

When CEDA (Centre for Environmental Data Archival) needed a way to enable scientists around the world to visualise and animate its extensive Earth observation dataset and climate simulation models, it called on Tessella’s scientific software and data analysis expertise. The resulting web based service was delivered against tight deadlines to coincide with the launch of [...]

The first scientific results from ESA’s Planck mission were released at a press briefing on Tuesday 11 January in Paris (http://www.esa.int) and the latest results of the Planck telescope images presented at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. Physics World have recently published an article detailing the success of this project, [...]

Tessella to lead world class team in development of advanced models for Attitude and Orbit Control Systems (AOCS)   Oxford, UK | December 8, 2010. Tessella, the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services is pleased to announce that the European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Tessella to develop generic sets of unit [...]

How well can inertial navigation – measuring acceleration and orientation – be used to track people in areas where they can’t get a GPS signal? We spoke to Tessella’s Dave Dungate…read more