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CGI

CORE BUSINESS

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 consultants and other professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions.

CGI provides mission-critical space systems to meet rapidly changing demands, drawing on its expertise in satellite communications, navigation and operations, as well as Earth observation, cyber security and space applications.

CGI’s desire remains more than ever to help space players in Luxembourg increase the value of their investments and, more specifically, to use space data to solve their business challenges and drive business opportunities.

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

We are supported by a large group, with 50 years of experience, composed by more than 2500 experts in the space industry. We are able to capitalize on this global experience locally.

Our capabilities in Earth observation, communications, satellite navigation and operations, and space applications and cybersecurity encompass data processing and exploitation, robotics, command and control, on-board software, modelling and simulation, ground segment engineering and situational awareness.

MAJOR CUSTOMERS

European institutions, financial sector, private & public sectors, space agencies, industries…

MAJOR SPACE PROJECTS

Earth observation
  • Manage the maintenance and evolution of the European Space Research Institute's (ESRIN) Earth observation ground systems
  • Our eSurge helped to predict the ferocity of UK coastal flooding
  • Our EO4SD Lab supports global, sustainable development activities using cloud-based platforms
Satellite operations
  • Delivered the Galileo satellite constellation control facility that will control all of Galileo's 30 satellites
  • We have been developing the testing and configuration test bed for the second generation of the ESA's Galileo system
  • CGI worked with the ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre to define a common software engineering environment
Satellite communications
  • Supporting commercial flight trials of the Iris air traffic modernization program
  • Supporting OneWeb to make Internet access available and affordable for all
  • Bringing together fixed-network and satellite planning for 5G rollouts
  • Helping the defense industry benefit from commercial solutions with tools like Skynet 5
Space cybersecurity
  • CGI is part of a consortium that signed a cybersecurity contract with the ESA
  • Designed and delivered the security solution for Europe’s future space-enabled Air Traffic Control Network
  • Delivered the Galileo Security Facility & Crypto Key Management Facilities
Space applications and services

We deliver weather satellite images and data to over 3 billion people. Our space apps and services help improve:

  • Virtual tolling and rail crossing safety
  • Oil spills and leaks
  • Wildfire mapping
  • Emerging service communications
  • High-value crop growing
Satellite navigation
  • Largest independent supplier of security systems for Europe's Galileo satnav program
  • Help ensure navigation systems are secure, reliable and fit for purpose

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