major European Prime contractors in their efforts
to capture upcoming missions within space
exploration, earth observation, communication
and other critical infrastructure as showcased by
our ongoing contracts across the spectrum of
missions withing Science, Exploration, Earth
Observation, Telecoms and Defense.
2024/25, the first UMB SCOE delivered by mid-
February and the two others during summer 2025.
The European Commission Copernicus programme
provides vital data from satellites which help
address challenges such as urbanisation, food
security, rising sea levels, diminishing polar ice,
natural disasters and, of course, climate change.
Rovsing has contributed to many of the current
suite of Sentinel satellite missions. Looking to the
future, the capabilities of the Copernicus space
component will be enhanced by six new satellites
(CO2M, LSTM, CHIME, ROSE-L, CIMR and
CRISTAL), currently being developed by ESA and
built by European industry. Rovsing has already
secured multiple contracts and is working on 4 out
of 6 satellites with different primes (LSTM, ROSE-
L, CIMR and CRISTAL). The tendering phase for the
continuation of the Sentinel missions under the
Copernicus space component has also begun, with
Rovsing already responding to several tenders.
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The Rovsing team continued work on the large
Galileo Second Generation (G2G) EGSEs project for
customer Thales Alenia Space (TAS) Italy. Several
deliveries and milestones were completed during
2024/25. The project is in a recurring system
delivery phase. However, during the financial year
replanning showed that due to the already incurred
extensive delays on the programme, the efforts
needed to complete the project and with increased
cost of materials since the contract start, the
impact on projected profitability is negatively
impacted. The Company seeks to have these
additional costs recovered by the customer and
expects to have an agreement in place before final
deliveries in 2025/26.
Airbus DS selected Rovsing to deliver the Power
SCOEs as well as the Power Front-Ends for the
Copernicus CRISTAL and LSTM missions. The 2
sets of Power Front-End systems were shipped to
Airbus DS in 2023. The 1st set for the Power SCOE
project was successfully delivered to Airbus DS in
Germany in early September 2024. And the 2nd set
delivered to Airbus DS Spain in December 2024.
The Mars Sample Return (MSR) Earth Return
Orbiter (ERO) Electrical Satellite Interface
Simulator (E-SIS) for Airbus DS has seen several
stoppage periods due to programme level changes
for the MSR mission. The E-SIS systems are
completed and are being stored by Rovsing until
the needed MSR mission changes are agreed by
ESA and NASA.
In June 2023, Rovsing and customer TAS-I
conducted the successful Kick-off of the CIMR
UMB/COTE SCOE project, however due to
progamme changes the project has been on hold
but is expected to resume during 2025/26.
Rovsing is performing the Independent SW
Validation
&
Verification (ISVV) of the Jena-
Optronik LIDAR, for the MSR-ERO mission. In
addition, Rovsing has an ISVV contract performing
the OBC-GNC ISVV with our partner Critical
Software. The ISVV projects on MSR-ERO are
expected to be completed in 2025.
The ROSE-L Power EGSEs were awarded to
Rovsing by TAS-I in July 2023. The project was on
hold awaiting changes from the customer until the
autumn of 2024. The PDR was concluded
successfully in March 2024. The CDR has been
conducted, and the first deliveries are expected
during 2025/26.
Rovsing involvement as key contributor to the MSR
programme for the E-SIS and multiple ISVV tasks
showcases the capabilities and reliability of
Rovsing on flagship ESA and NASA exploration
programmes.
Rovsing is supporting Airbus DS on the ARIEL
mission by providing the Satellite Interface
Simulators (SIS). The two reduced sets were
delivered in early 2024. The two full sets completed
their test campaigns during the summer and the
first shipped in the autumn. The final set was
shipped to Airbus DS during March 2025.
For the PLATiNO programme and customer
SITAEL S.p.A in Italy, Rovsing has delivered UMB
SCOE systems but remained to deliver a MiniCOTE
system, the system was ready, pending harness
definitions from the customer. This remaining
system was finally delivered during summer 2025.
SITAEL contracted Rovsing with further deliveries
of SAS and SLP products the first set of which was
delivered during the summer 2024 with remaining
sets delivered in autumn 2024 and beginning of
2025. A follow-on contract for additional UMB
SCOEs was awarded to Rovsing with deliveries in
Rovsing has in August 2024 delivered the FORUM
Platform Emulator SCOE to OHB. FORUM is an
ESA mission which will measure Earth’s outgoing
radiation in the far-infrared part of the
electromagnetic spectrum that has never been
measured from space before. Rovsing has a 2nd
