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 * Satellite Evolution Group
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 * * Jul 12
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   * 3 min read




THE CONSORTIUM LED BY THALES ALENIA SPACE SELECTED TO OPERATE THE WEKEO 2.0
INFRASTRUCTURE







Thales Alenia Space announces the signature of the Provision of Copernicus WEkEO
2.0 Services and Operations contract with the European Organization for the
Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), representing the European
Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Mercator Ocean International
(MOI) and the European Environment Agency (EEA), all together called the WEkEO
Partners, for the provision of cloud computing and related services for the
WEkEO 2.0 platform. This system will replace the current WEkEO Data Information
and Access Services (DIAS) financed by the European Commission and will provide
a fast, secured streamline access to data and products from Europe’s Copernicus
Earth observation program and other Environmental Services.






The WEkEO platform is an important gateway to harnessing the power of key
environmental space-



based data. Not only does it provide free and open access to data from the
Sentinel constellation, as well as data and products from the four Copernicus
Services focused on environmental data (marine, atmosphere, climate and land),
it also provides free (and paid) access to powerful virtual processing
environments that allow users to transform data. Entrepreneurs, researchers or
any interested citizen can use the WEkEO platform to develop an added-value
application, develop models and transform data, or simply explore Copernicus
space-based data and data derived from in situ technology and models.






The WEkEO v1 platform, today in operations with a Service Level Agreement of
99,70%, has been



successfully operated by Thales Alenia Space and CloudFerro since 2019 and has
been deployed over three countries in Europe (Germany, Italia and Poland) mixing
private and public cloud infrastructures.






The WEkEO 2.0 contract provides for the replacement of WEkEO v1 by a brand-new,
state-of-the-art



WEkEO 2.0 platform, providing continuity and stability of the WEkEO services for
the years to come. It covers the “as a service” provisioning of the computing,
storage and network virtual infrastructure as well as data access and hosted
processing capabilities. The new platform will offer enhanced capabilities to
the WEkEO users, such as Serverless functions allowing to perform on-demand
processing close to the data and also, the hybridization with High Performance
Computing (HPC) allowing to perform complex and massive high speed data
processing. Thales Alenia Space will seamlessly guarantee a smooth transition to
current WEkEO users to the new platform by the end of 2023.






The new contract demonstrates the Service Excellence provided by Thales Alenia
Space and its



partners for WEkEO v1, which is now used by more than 14,000 users, providing
access to over 410



data sets from EUMETSAT and WEkEO partners. The new WEkEO 2.0 platform will
benefit from Thales Alenia Space’s Ground Segment product line policy, and in
particular its GeoDataCenter solution, a data processing and services platform
specifically developed for new entrants to the Earth Observation domain.






Thales Alenia Space is the leader of the consortium composed of WEkEO v1
recognized players:



CloudFerro, Orange Business Services, GMV as well as two new partners, CGI and
MEEO.






Bertrand Denis, VP Observation & Science Domain at Thales Alenia Space, said :
“Thales Alenia Space is delighted to be once again selected by EUMETSAT to
continue the operation of WEkEO 2.0,



confirming their trust in our capabilities to design, deploy and operate such
advanced Data Information & Access Service platform. This new platform will
embed major evolutions which will enhance WEkEO users experience, and will keep
streamlining access to Copernicus, EUMETSAT and WEkEO partners data and
products. Completing our Space systems offering by cutting-edge solutions on
Ground Segments is a key element of our growth strategy in the domain of Earth
Observation, and we are proud to have EUMETSAT’s trust in this approach.”






For more information visit : https://www.thalesaleniaspace.com/en



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