The Symphony Project

The Symphony partnership with Thales Alenia Space Thales Alenia Space (TAS) is a European leader for satellite systems and at the forefront of orbital infrastructures. They are also one of Jotne EPM Technology’s partners in the Symphony project, a venture intended to expand the capabilities of the original OCDS product.

TAS is a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Finmeccanica (33%) and forms a Space Alliance with Telespazio. The company has 11 industrial sites in four European countries (France, Italy, Spain and Belgium) with over 7,200 employees worldwide and is a worldwide leader in telecommunication, radar, optical Earth observation, defense and other sciences. They are at the heart of high-performance satellite technologies in both the civil and defense sectors, and a perfect partner for a company like Jotne EPM Technology when developing their products for the space industry.

Francis Arbusti as the Symphony Study manager in the Advance Projects Satellite System Engineering Science and Optical Observation Business Unit of Thales Alenia Space had much to say about this project. “Thales Alenia Space work together with Jotne EPM in the framework of the Symphony project for activities related to definition of concurrent engineering models,” Arbusti says. He emphasizes that it is the Cannes location of Symphony that Jotne EPM Technology and TAS are collaborating on. “With more than 2000 persons, Cannes is the site where the major parts of institutional or observation satellites under French leadership are defined, built, tested and validated. What Thales Alenia Space aims at is providing the Norwegian team with industrial feedback on OCDS in order to optimize new developments, “ concludes Arbusti.

The Symphony project is an opportunity to apply the large data model management competences of Jotne EPM Technology with a company that has a strong heritage in satellite conception and development. The objective of this collaboration is to influence the new OCDS development activity with user requirements from a large industrial satellite company. This activity aims to be complementary to the OCDS product specification by the space European agencies.