Date: 15-16 April 2026
Location: ESA ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany
The 10th European Mission Operations Ground Segment Software & Architecture Workshop (ESAW) has as its theme ‘Platforms for exploring Earth and beyond – Towards a smart and resilient ground segment’. The event is designed to offer a platform to swap ideas, check out the latest trends and help shape the future of mission operations software and architecture.
ESAW 2026 is backed by the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Operations Directorate and hosted by ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC).
Several of Starion’s experts will be taking part in panels and presenting papers.
15 April
- 11:00 session on Ground Segment Platforms & Modernisation – Norbert Magyar, Space Data Software Engineer: ‘Architecture and innovations for ESA’s Space Weather Payload Data Centre’
- 16:10 session on AI Assistants, Predictive Ops & Intelligent Engineering – Nieves Salor Moral, Project Manager and Technical Lead: ‘AI for Automation of Mission Operations Systems Testing and Validation’
16 April
- 09:30 – Pablo Beltrami will be taking part in the panel discussing ‘How to meet the challenges of dual use ground segment’
- 11:00 session on Automation & Orchestration for Constellation – Wolfgang Heinen, Consultant Engineer: ‘Lights-Out System for automation of operations & mission planning for a fleet’, featuring Starion’s modular Astral ground segment platform
- Also in the 11:00 session on Automation & Orchestration for Constellation – Riaz Shafi, Systems Engineer: ‘Astral Dash: A system-of-systems approach to scalable fleet and constellation operations’
Please get in touch if you would like to meet any of our experts at this event to discuss our ground segment solutions, including Astral.
Find out more and register at: atpi.eventsair.com/esaw2026/