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RHEA Group

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John Bone previously held senior commercial leadership roles at Orbex, Rhea Group, Telespazio, and CGI.

GovernanceValue 3.0Jul 9, 2026Bright Ascension appoints John Bone as Chief Commercial Officer

The UK Ministry of Defence awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Rhea Group earlier 2024 to develop satellite control systems for the ISTARI constellation.

RelationshipsCapabilityPlanValue 4.2Jul 17, 2024LeoLabs to support UK’s Project Tyche

Lockheed Martin UK and Rhea Group will develop competing mission systems to control ISTARI satellites and to manage and process their data.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Feb 19, 2024UK selects vendors to develop ground systems for military constellation

The U.K. Ministry of Defence awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Rhea Group to develop satellite control systems for the ISTARI remote-sensing constellation.

RelationshipsValue 5.0Feb 19, 2024UK selects vendors to develop ground systems for military constellation

Rhea Group is a technology services firm based in Belgium that also operates in the United Kingdom.

GeneralValue 1.5Feb 19, 2024UK selects vendors to develop ground systems for military constellation

The Start Me Up manifest included DOVER, developed by RHEA Group and built by Open Cosmos as a pathfinder smallsat for resilient global navigation systems co-funded through ESA’s NAVISP.

RelationshipsFinancialCapabilityValue 4.0Jan 16, 2023UPDATE 4: Virgin Orbit updates their “Start Me Up” mission anomaly

DOVER was developed by RHEA Group in the U.K. as the company’s first satellite in its 30-year history and is co-funded through ESA’s Navigation Innovation and Support Programme (NAVISP) and built by Open Cosmos of the United Kingdom.

GeneralCapabilityValue 4.0Oct 11, 2022With the manifest complete, Virgin Orbit’s flight hardware is heading to Spaceport Cornwall for the 1st orbital launch from U.K. soil

RHEA Group operates across Europe and Canada from 11 countries and has over 600 staff located within client sites and own offices.

GeneralGrowthValue 2.0Aug 27, 2022ESA’s C-SOC development includes participation by Spaceit via an agreement with RHEA System

Open Cosmos and RHEA Group selected Virgin Orbit’s UK business to launch the DOVER Pathfinder satellite to low Earth orbit from Spaceport Cornwall later 2022.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.0Jul 26, 2022Virgin Orbit’s 1st UK launch is for RHEA Group’s DOVER Pathfinder smallsat

The DOVER Pathfinder’s payload was designed by RHEA Group in the UK and the satellite was built by UK-based Open Cosmos.

CapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Jul 26, 2022Virgin Orbit’s 1st UK launch is for RHEA Group’s DOVER Pathfinder smallsat

RHEA Group is working with Open Cosmos to design, build, and operate the DOVER Pathfinder mission.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Jul 26, 2022Virgin Orbit’s 1st UK launch is for RHEA Group’s DOVER Pathfinder smallsat

RHEA Group’s security team based in Diegem and Redu in Belgium together with SatADSL, based in Brussels, will commercially operate the resulting PSS platform once it is operational and will offer secure PSS services to users worldwide for institutional and governmental customers, integrating offers from different commercial satcom resource providers.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.8Jun 1, 2021RHEA, SatADSL and ST Engineering iDirect to develop secure satellite communications PSS

A consortium of Belgian companies led by RHEA Group and including SatADSL and ST Engineering iDirect has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency to develop and run an enhanced satellite communications Pooling and Sharing System (PSS).

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.6Jun 1, 2021RHEA, SatADSL and ST Engineering iDirect to develop secure satellite communications PSS

RHEA Group operates a Cyber-Range and a Cyber Security Operations Centre (C-SOC).

CapabilityValue 3.0Jul 24, 2020RHEA Group and GomSpace Sign MOU
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