BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

Our mission in space is to deliver space-enabled solutions for security and future prosperity of the space domain. As a pan-global domain, space enables integration across land, sea, air and cyber. It sits at the heart of achieving military and economic advantage on the world stage, providing secure and rapid access to critical information from anywhere on Earth. With a new site established for satellite manufacture, we are building Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks that help deliver information advantage and multi-domain operations. We are also focused on using our heritage in delivering complex defence programmes to develop the UK’s sovereign space capability, build a more diverse UK space industry, and increase our global influence through partnerships both in the UK and international.

We have been working with the European Space Agency (ESA) for over two decades, delivering their Tracking, Telemetry and Command Processor (TTCP). The system delivers the latest generation technology for processing the communication signals sent between near-Earth and deep-space ESA spacecraft and ground stations. Using stations positioned at key locations on the Earth’s surface, TTCP can triangulate the position of a spacecraft with an accuracy of 0.2 millionths of a degree and measure the distance of a spacecraft to within 10 cm anywhere in the solar system.

We design hybrid RF/optical ground stations, manufacture space qualified microwave components, and design and manufacture UK MILSATCOM cyber threat resilient and configurable payloads and free space underwater to air/space communications. As part of the satellite applications, we work on EO/ISR geo-intelligence analytics, non-GNSS navigation and specialised satellite antennas.