AerisWay

AerisWay is a suite of libraries, applications and all related data, configurations, etc, that we developed

to support our services in Mission Analysis and Flight Dynamics operations for NewSpace customers.

AerisWay was partially funded via the ESA Business Incubation Centre and we are minimizing development

efforts by exploiting existing and fully validated software suites.

AerisWay is built on top of the Generic Orbit Determination and Optimization Toolkit, or GODOT,

which was developed by ESA/ESOC and provided to AerisGate for commercial use under an

ESA Community License. GODOT is already being used for spacecraft Flight Dynamics operations

for all recent ESA missions both for Earth observation and deep space. This allows us to exploit

the inherent and flight qualified reliability and accuracy of GODOT at the core of AerisWay.

Moreover, we are also using GENEOS, a toolkit developed at ESA/ESOC and targeting Earth

Observation missions operational Flight Dynamics, and we have integrated several other

specialized Python packages such as PyGMO for generic optimization and OpenMDAO

for Multidisciplinary Design Optimization.

Based on AerisWay, our AerisGate experts can offer at a low cost a wide set of services

which are typically very expensive in the traditional space sector, such as:

• Mission analysis for Earth orbiters (orbit optimization and selection, constellation design,

station and ground coverage, ...)

• Mission analysis for deep space missions (search space pruning and trajectory optimization,

navigation and Montecarlo analyses, ...)

• Flight Dynamics cross-validation services (observables and dynamics modelling, filter, ...)
• Flight Dynamics operations (orbit determination, orbit control, collision avoidance, products, ...)
• Concurrent mission and spacecraft design following Multidisciplinary Design principles

Moreover, AerisGate can provide customized software packages which are tailored to the

specific needs of the customer, ranging from simple Mission Analysis toolkits to full-fledged

Flight Dynamics Systems integrated with a dedicated user interface. We can also offer integration

of our Flight Dynamics solutions within the overall ground segment, either provided directly by

the customer or by third party suppliers.