Space
The core competencies of the RHEA Group remain in Space and since 1992 RHEA has acquired a first class reputation amongst its clients for providing engineering services, system solutions and products of the highest quality. RHEA’s technical knowledge base, together with the practical experience of its engineers gained through the most demanding projects, assures its clients that they can provide them the highest level of expertise.
RHEA has provided expertise in specifying, developing, and supporting over 40 missions for international and national Space Agencies, for commercial operators, for prime system integrators and for satellite manufacturers and their suppliers.
RHEA’s projects cover the earliest days of a mission where they help design instruments with project scientists, through to designing spacecraft, their orbits and flight scenarios, their supporting ground segments, and finally through to testing, verifying and operating the mission. Indeed they are one of the few companies working on the complete space mission life-cycle.
RHEA’s know-how and experience include the following competencies:
- System Engineering;
- System and Operational Software Engineering;
- Spacecraft Assembly Integration Testing (AIT) Management and Supervision;
- Space Environment and Radiation Studies;
- Space Weather Systems and Consultancy;
- System Requirements Specification;
- Operations Concept Definition;
- Spacecraft Database Preparation and Production;
- Mission Analysis, Feasibility Studies;
- Spacecraft Platform, Payload and Ground Segment Operations;
- AIV and Launch operations;
- Ground Segment Engineering;
- Earth Observation Data Processing and Data Management;
- Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) Engineering;
- Mission Planning and Management;
- Image Pre-processing (radiometric and geometric improvement);
- Level 1, 2 and 3 Processing;
- Cal/Val developments; and
- Project Management
