Alberto Águeda Email & Phone Number

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

Director of Space Surveillance and Traffic Management (SST & STM) at GMV, in charge of the overall department operations including management (100+ staff in 8 countries: ES, DE, FR, UK, RO, PL, PT, US), accounting (10+ MEUR yearly revenue, with average 2-digit yearly growth in the last 10 years), business development (tens of customers and partners) and contracts.Headlines:GMV is the main reference in Europe for Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) and Space Traffic Management (STM):- Whole set of COTS operational SW for SST data processing (FocusSST).- Working in SST for ESA since late 90's and participating in tens projects in the ESA's SSA/SpaceSafety program, including the lead of the ESA's SST Core Sofware and of the CREAM cornerstone. This involves activities in ES, DE, UK, RO, PL & PT.- In Spain, leading the development and operation of the Spanish SST Operations Centre (S3TOC) as among many other activities for CDTI.- In France, providing SST-related support to CNES since year 2012 and leads the development and operation of the CNES’s BAS3E simulator for SST, among other activities for CNES.- In Germany, leading the Evolution of the GSSAC Mission System (GMS) and the Development of the GSSAC Basic Algorithms for SSA Data Processing (BaSSTDa) for DLR and provides the Core Software based on its COTS SST Software (FocusSST) for the German Armed Forces’ SSA Centre.- In the UK, Romania, Poland and Portugal, participating in a large number of ESA activities in the SST domain as well as contributing to the development of their national SST systems.- In commercial SST, operating since 2017 its proprietary Focusoc Operations Centre for the provision of commercial collision avoidance services.- In military SST, active in the EDIDP&EDF programs among several other initiatives including the support to the development of the German and Spanish military SST systems.- In STM, leading the EUSTM activity for the EC and participating in main STM forums.

Madrid Area, Spain

Head of Division in the Flight Dynamics and Operations business unit of GMV, in charge of the department operations for the institutional market including management (60+ staff in 7 countries: ES, DE, FR, NL, UK, PL, RO), accounting (9+ MEUR yearly revenue, with average 2-digit yearly growth in the last 5 years), business development (tens of customers) and contracts, also providing support to commercial initiatives in the same domain.Headlines:GMV is a global leader in supplying Flight Dynamics systems and services to institutional and commercial customers worldwide for telecommunication, Earth observation, navigation, transportation and science missions. Our main customers are the main space agencies (ESA, NASA, CNES, DLR, EUMETSAT, CDTI and INTA among others) and a large number of 20+ telecom operators all around the world (Eutelsat, Hispasat, Arabsat, StarOne, Turksat, Optus, Globalstar, O3b, etc) flying 200+ satellites from all major spacecraft manufacturers (Airbus, Thales, OHB, Boeing, SS/L, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK, MELCO) with GMV's focussuite technology.In the Operations domain, GMV is frame contractor for engineering support for ESA, CNES, DLR and EUMETSAT, counting on 50+ engineers involved in the operations of the most critical European missions including Galileo, Sentinel, ExoMars and ISS/Columbus.Additionally, GMV is the main reference in Europe for Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) leading the development, integration & maintenance of the ESA’s SST Data Centre; the development, integration, maintenance & operations of the Spanish SST Operations Centre and several SST-related activities for CNES. GMV also provides unique Conjunction Assessment & Collision Avoidance services to its large portfolio of commercial customers.Finally, GMV is the main industrial reference in Europe in Precise Orbit Determination (POD), being the responsible for the development & operation of the POD Service for the European Earth observation Sentinel missions.

Madrid Area, Spain

Project Manager in several Flight Dynamics, Space Surveillance and Tracking, Precise Orbit Determination and Operations & Engineering Services activities, including management and technical lead and subcontractors management:- EC's H2020 CSA EUSTM (https://eustm.eu)- ESA's SSA Technical Support Service (6 staff)- ESA's FD&OE Support Service at ESOC (20+ staff)- ESA's SSA DC-IV "Evolution of the Pilot Data Centres"- ESA's SSA CO-VIII "Space Surveillance and Tracking Precursor Services Operations"- ESA's SSA CO-V "Telescopes Analysis and Design"- ESA's SSA Radar and Optical Sensor Data Fusion for OD of GTO and GEO Objects- ESA's Identification and Analysis of MEO Observation Strategies for a future European SST System- ESA's Napeos (Navigation Package for Earth Orbiting Satellites)- GMV's SEGORD sequential orbit determination system- GMV's ssasim SST simulator- GMV's ConSigo OD performaces simulator- GMV's OrbitML Flight Dynamics Mark-up languageAdditional technical and managerial support and consultancy:- Tens of projects within the ESA's SSA/SpaceSafety program- Several additional SST-related projects for the ESA's Space Debris Office- Tens of projects around the development of Spanish SST (S3T) System for CDTI- CNES's SST Expert Support- DLR's GSSAC development (GMS & BaSSTDa)- Activities for the development of the national civilian SST system in the UK, Romania, Poland and Portugal- Activities for the development of the national military SST system in Germany and Spain- SSA-related projects in the EDIDP program: SAURON, INTEGRAL and ODIN's EYE- Focusoc commercial ops centre operations- FDS for constellations based on GMV's focuscn: Galileo, Globalstar, O3b- FDS for LEOP based on GMV's focusleop: Eutelsat, Telenor- FDS for GEO based on GMV's focusgeo: Eutelsat, Hispasat, MTG- FDS for LEO based on GMV's focusleo: PAZ, Proba-3, Cheops, OCO- Expert support to ESA in CCSDS Navigation WG- Copernicus POD Service

Madrid Area, Spain

Project Engineer in several Flight Dynamics and Precise Orbit Determination activities for ESA, Eumetsat, CNES and Eutelsat:- ESA's Napeos (Navigation Package for Earth Orbiting Satellites) system- Eumetsat's EPS/Metop Flight Dynamics System- Eumetsat's EPS/Metop GRAS Near Real Time Precise Orbit Determination System- CNES's ATV Flight Dynamics System- ESA's GSTB V2 Flight Dynamics System- Eutelsat fleet Flight Dynamics System based on GMV's focusgeo

Madrid Area, Spain

Responsible for the Navigation Missions subject within the Space Mechanics course of the Master in Space and Satellite Technology of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.

Puertollano, Spain

Responsible for the Introduction to Aircrafts course within the Aeronautics and Airports Management degree of Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in Puertollano, Spain.

Madrid Area, Spain

Trainee at the GNSS Business Unit in charge of the performances evaluation of future Galileo navigation constellation and trade-off analysis of several RAIM algorithms.