CONTEC
- #Ground Stations
- #Satellite Data Reception Services
- #Satellite Video Usage
CONTEC, founded in 2015, is a spin-off company from the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). In order to respond to the New Space Era, CONTEC provides a vertical chain solution in the downstream industry. CONTEC is the only commercial entity to have a civilian space ground control center in Korea and also the only provider of a all-in-one integrated satellite data solution in the world. Our capabilities include ground station engineering, GSaaS (Ground-Station-as-a-Service), satellite data reception and transmission, satellite image processing and analysis, and satellite image application solutions.
- 5-34, 148beon-gil, Jijok-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- www.contec.kr
Product Overview and Main Content
CONTEC Total Solution
- CONTEC's total solution is a platform service for use in the downstream area of the space industry. The customer's (user) convenience was put first in developing this service as we also provide customized solutions that ranges from data collection systems like antennas to a variety of usage srevices that repond to the client's ultimate needs. This service is intended for use with a variety of satellite operations and comprises of various functions. This includes ground control system engineering solutions capable of ground system development for mission control support and integration, GSaaS network solutions for data reception and transmission, quality assurance solutions for processing of raw satellite image data, and value-added application solutions integrated with ICT technology, such as deep learning, to meet customer needs.
Product Highlights
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Ground Control System Engineering Solutions
· Providing ground station system construction solutions for communicating with satellites (low-orbit/geosynchronous orbit) · Providing ground station integrated operations software reflecting over 20 years of know-how
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GSaaS Network Solutions
· We can receive satellite data from our own ground stations and provide service transmitting it to clients (the only vendor in Korea) · Providing a convenient web-based user interface for managing the current pass status of satellites and scheduling · Malfunction detection is applied for efficient ground station operations (using the same concept as the Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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Data Processing Solutions for Creating Satellite Video
· Correcting distortion of received satellite data (radiation correction/geometric correction/spatial correction) · Carrying out acceleration of data processing for satellite video creation (30 m. → 6 m.) · Provided with customization for a variety of algorithms according to the characteristics of the client’s satellites · Selected as a Secret Processing Special Company by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport for the secret processing of satellite information
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Value-Added
Solutions for Satellite Video Usage
· Deep learning-based satellite analysis solutions customized to focus on clients’ service demands · Web-based satellite video usage service platform for carrying out city management, harbor facility monitoring, disaster analysis, etc.
Areas of Application
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With the development of space technology and the expansion of its applications, continuous technical refinement is being carried out on our existing products. We are currently building a service that allows for control and signal synchronization for our own satellites and those of our clients, using satellite network control technology. By launching and operating our own satellites, we plan to expand our satellite image offerings for clients who do not have their own satellites. This expansion will enable us to enhance our technology and increase sales across a wide variety of areas.
Possible Areas for Cooperation
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Business Results
Market Outlook
- While providing ground station services for transmitting and receiving satellite information from mainly commercial satellites that have skyrocketed in numbers recently,, we also offer services for processing and analyzing this transmitted information. Additionally, we are entering the market with a vertically integrated business model that includes value-added services for various industrial applications, aiming to distinguish ourselves from other space ground station companies. Moreover, due to the rapidly increasing demand for space ground stations, this sector is being re-evaluated as an important market within the space industry, and we anticipate a steady increase in customer demand for the solutions we provide.
Commercialization Plans
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- The hierarchical satellite data platform solutions we provide to clients on the basis of our satellite data all-in-one service technology have been systematically built up from the technology needed for receiving and transmitting satellite data through ground stations since our beginnings as a start-up, and we have virtually perfected the level of technology and service we need for commercialization. To demonstrate our level of commercialization, since our first ground station, the Jeju Ground Station, completed construction in 2019 and since it began actually offering services to customers in June 2020, we have perfectly executed all of its HW and SW functions for the purpose of commercialization. We have built up our heritage as the world’s only satellite video reception/process/analysis company, and we are working on refining our technology. To achieve this goal, we are aggressively investing in three key areas: 1) Constructing at least 15 ground stations in 12 countries worldwide to offer satellite image reception and processing services, 2) providing and selling satellite image application services, 3) directly producing data by operating our own satellites as we anticipate a rapid increase in sales as the space market expands