Overview

Facts and figures

Infrastructure

• Two geostationary payloads, EDRS-A and EDRS-C

• Mission Operations Centres in Ottobrunn (DE) and Redu (BE)

• Spacecraft/Payload Control Centres in Oberpfaffenhofen (DE)

• Ground stations in Redu (BE), Harwell (GB), two in Weilheim (DE) and Matera (IT)

Launch dates

• EDRS-A: 29 January 2016

• EDRS-C: 2019

Launch site

• EDRS-A: Baikonur, Kazakhstan

• EDRS-C: Kourou, French Guiana

Launcher

• EDRS-A: Proton

• EDRS-C: Ariane 5

Platform/host satellite

EDRS-A

• Satellite: Eutelsat-9B, Eutelsat (FR)

• Platform: Eurostar 3000, Airbus (FR)

EDRS-C

• Satellite: EDRS-C Satellite, Airbus Defence and Space (DE)

• Platform: SmallGEO-type, OHB Systems (DE), also hosting the Hylas-3 payload by Avanti (GB)

Intersatellite link capacity

• Optical

• Ka-band

• Up to 1800 Mbit/s

• Up to 300 Mbit/s

Link capacity to ground (Ka-band)

Up to 1800 Mbit/s

Data transmission capacity

At least 50 TBytes/day

Prime contractor

Airbus Defence and Space (DE)

Mission Operation Centre

Airbus Defence and Space (DE)

Anchor customer

ESA/EC Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2