Fabrizio Pirondini
Chief Executive Officer
Deimos Imaging
Spain

Biography
Fabrizio Pirondini is the CEO of Elecnor Deimos Imaging, the subsidiary of the Spanish Elecnor group devoted to Earth Observation, which operates and manages the Deimos-1 and Deimos-2 satellites, and markets their products and services worldwide. He is an Aerospace Engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the various aspects of the Earth Observation value chain. In 2001 he co-founded Deimos Space, which is now one of Europe’s leading space companies, and he was responsible until 2010 of the Earth Observation Mission Analysis Division, having worked as Mission Analysis & Design responsible in more than 20 Earth Observation mission studies.

Abstract
DEIMOS-2 Becomes Operational: Very-High Resolution Imagery with a Premium Service

Elecnor Deimos is a private Spanish company which owns and operates Deimos-1, the first Spanish Earth Observation satellite. Deimos-1, launched in 2009, is among the world leading sources of high resolution data. Elecnor Deimos launched in June 2014 its second satellite, Deimos-2, a very-high resolution, agile satellite capable of providing 75-cm pan-sharpened imagery with 4 bands (G, R, B and NIR), with a swath of 12 / 24 km. Deimos-2 is the only European fully-private satellite which is capable of providing sub-metric multispectral imagery. The Deimos-2 satellite has been co-developed by Elecnor Deimos and SATREC-i (South Korea), based on the SpaceEye-1 platform design, and it has been integrated and tested in the new Elecnor Deimos Satellite Systems premises in Puertollano (Spain). The whole end-to-end Deimos-2 system has been designed to provide a cost-effective and highly responsive service to cope with the increasing need of fast access to very-high resolution imagery. It is operated with a 24/7 commercial service by Elecnor Deimos Imaging, providing near-real time image tasking, downloading, processing and delivery to the end user. The ground segment, which includes three receiving/commanding ground stations in Spain, Sweden and Canada, has been completely developed in-house by Elecnor Deimos, based on its gs4EO suite. After an in-depth commissioning of the satellite and the ground segment, Deimos-2 declared Full Operational Capability on April 1, 2015, and it is now available for customers worldwide. In this presentation we will describe the main features of the Deimos-2 system, with emphasis on its initial operations and the quality of its imagery, and provide updated information on its mission status.