CORE BUSINESS
Starion provides engineering expertise and solutions for space and other critical infrastructures across Europe, pushing the boundaries of innovation. Our teams work on world-leading space projects that deliver our company’s vision of ‘shaping the future of what is possible’.
Through our heritage, Starion offers over three decades of expertise and investment in the space sector. We provide professional engineering services, developing and operating systems and solutions tailored to our clients’ requirements. Our experts work across the complete space mission lifecycle, from spacecraft design, mission operations and data collection to decommissioning at the end of a satellite’s life, and data archiving and utilisation. By combining space and system engineering with established and emerging technologies, such as AI and quantum, we also produce innovative solutions that make a fundamental difference for our clients and for society.
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Starion Luxembourg provides full lifecycle end-to-end engineering solutions, including design, integration and operation, for complex programmes.
We supply operations and ground system engineering services for missions including Earth observation, communications, scientific, navigation and space exploration helping both New Space and established organisations set up their operations infrastructure or introduce new ground segment technologies.
In partnership with key Luxembourg players, and the European Space Agency (ESA), we develop a next-generation cybersecurity operational and international solution based on the distribution of quantum encryption keys, complementing current national space segment quantum communication infrastructure programmes.
We develop complete cyber-resilient programmes for the space sector to protect clients against cyberattacks, and deliver cyber-range capabilities to test and train teams.
Our concurrent design methodology significantly reduces both the cost and overall risk early in a project’s lifecycle. Cybersecurity managed services and satellite end-to-end services are the focus of Starion Luxembourg, in the sectors identified as priority for the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) strategy and the key institutional and national players.
TECHNICAL MEANS
Starion’s Concurrent Design product
CDP4-COMET enables multidisciplinary teams to work together efficiently on complex systems by analysing requirements, carrying out calculations and validating models in real time.
Our ASTRAL component-based ground segment offering, allows a high degree of flexibility for customer to integrate their own third-party components and interface with other systems. Our Manufacturing and Operations Information System (MOIS) is
a suite of tools tool suite has been used by spacecraft manufacturers and operators on over 120 satellite missions to optimise the processes of spacecraft validation, mission operations and preparation.
MAIN CUSTOMERS
Our customers and partners include Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA), Luxembourg Ministries, Luxembourg Directorate of Defence (LUXDoD), POST, LuxTrust, InTech, HITEC, the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Commission (EU), the European Defense Agency (EDA), NATO/NCIA, SnT Uni.lu, National space and defence agencies, other national institutes and commercial clients.
MAJOR SPACE PROJECTS
- SCCOE: the establishment of the Security Cyber Centre of Excellence, located in the European Space Security and Education Centre (ESEC), in Redu, Belgium
- Traleo 2: (Threat Risk Assessment on LEO Satellite Constellation project): cyber testbeds for small satellite/microsats to ground communications.
- LUXEOSys: the lifetime day-to-day operations and maintenance of Ground System of the Luxembourg DoD Earth Observation System (with National Advance Observation System satellite, NAOS)
- INT-UKQD: International Use cases for Operational QKD Applications and Service
- Rapid and Resilient Crisis Response System Study (ESA)
- HeManEO (Health Management Earth Orbit): Turn Earth Observation data/sources into a trusted product / data stream with end-to-end validation for business customers.
