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ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS is a high technology company that designs, manufactures and supplies a broad range of products and solutions for airborne & ground telemetry, mission video and flight test recorders, satellite command control, data collection from observation satellites and, last but not least products and solutions for satellite communications Quality of Service control. ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS France is organised into three business units adressing Space , Aerospace and Defense markets.

The "Telemetry" and "Telecommunications" Business Units of ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS (formerly IN-SNEC), with three main facilities, provide a full range of innovative products and systems in support of a variety of airborne and ground telemetry, communications and high data rate transmission applications. Airborne products are designed and qualified for allowing data acquisition and telemetry transmission aboard missiles, launch vehicles, and aircraft. They include telemetry transmitters, data links for UAV sensor and command/control communications, flight termination receivers and data acquisition systems. Ground products provide complete solutions, in various bands, dedicated to surveillance applications, flight test, uplink/downlink data transmissions, secure or non-secure communications. Ground products and systems include flight termination command uplink equipment, receivers for telemetry, and equipment for remote sensing and TT&C baseband applications. The "Telemetry" and "Telecommunications" BUs of ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS provide complete ground (fixed or mobile) and shipborne antenna systems including a wide range of high-speed tracking antennas and controllers. Thanks to our skills in microwave frequency, digital signal processing, real time software together with large experience in the development of high-performance equipment and project management, we are also in a position to meet all specific orders in the following fields:

 
On-Board Equipment:
  • Data Acquisition Systems for commercial and military aircraft
  • Telemetry for ballistic missiles and launch vehicles
  • Telemetry for tactical guided missiles and UAV
  • Flight termination systems (launchers and missiles)
  • Land vehicle telemetry
  • Recorders
  • Ground Stations:
  • Satellite control stations
  • Telemetry reception systems
  • Flight termination transmitting station
  • Remote sensing systems
  • Integration and installation of complete stations
  • Recorders
  • Telecommunications:
  • Satellite telecommunications systems
  • Radio-frequency (sub-assemblies, modules)
  • Microwave-frequency (sub-assemblies, modules)
  • Software Radio
  • Integration and installation of complete stations

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  • Flight Test - Data Links
    ENERTEC? Mission Recorders
    Remote Sensing
    Satellite TT&C - Ranging
    Software Defined Radio - Satcom QoS Monitoring
    Flight Test - Data Links
     
  • Airborne segment
  • Ground segment
  • satcom
  • LOS
  • MLS Control equipment
  • MVR: Muzzle Velocity Radar
  • Capitalizing more than forty years experience and background on flight test telemetry, ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS is able to provide products or turnkey solutions for the whole telemetry chain from sensors to data processing and display.
    - Airborne segment Its on-board instrumentation product line for acquisition, recording and transmission covers various platforms for space launchers or tactical aircraft, to commercial aircraft, fighters or helicopters.
    - Ground segment ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS offers products and solutions for receiving and recording the telemetry. Tracking antenna product line starts from 70cm to 11m dish diameter. Antenna pedestal can be single axis, dual or three axis for fixed, mobile or naval tracking of all type of target (space launchers, missile, aircraft, UAV, ground vehicle...) The Cortex RTR telemetry receiver is a world leader; at the top of the edge for microwave reception quality and performing digitaly the different demodulations. It includes numerous post processing functions allowing a drastic simplification of the telemetry data processing and analysis. The ground recorders product range allows to record, in real time, IF signal, telemetry signal and to perform post-flight replay.

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  • Airborne Recorders
  • Ground Replay Systems
  • Ground Telemetry Systems

  • The reference in high-end data storage, acquisition and processing systems for aerospace, defense and derived markets.
    ENERTEC? Mission Recorders
    A full range of mission/avionics video&data recorders/servers, providing cost-effective, state-of-the-art solutions for video&data acquisition and storage applications on board various military and airborne platforms, particularly:
  • Mission Debriefing and Pilot Training,
  • Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.
  • Ground Replay/Analysis Systems

    Ground modules, units and systems are available for data replay/analysis/display/archiving in PC environment for use in ground fixed or mobile stations/facilities. A full range of replay and analysis software packages for Windows XP is available for direct data download from cartridge (including MIL-STD-1553B data), for video and audio playback and display, and for basic media management.
    Ground Telemetry Systems

    The ENERTEC? "ADVANTYS" multi-mission telemetry system gives access to numerous fields of application, in data acquisition, flight testing of aircraft and missiles, ground vehicle testing, radar system proving, satellite integration, testing and monitoring, and many more. It provides real-time, play-back and off-line capabilities such as data acquisition, parameter extraction, processing, storage, analysis and display.
    Removable Cartridges

    The removable storage media of the ENERTEC? mission recorders use either hard disk drive or solid-state non-volatile memory technology, which provides compactness, light weight and high-capacity at affordable life cycle cost. Removable Digital Data Cartridges are qualified to operate in the environmental conditions encountered during airborne missions, in pods or on board fighter aircraft, surveillance aircraft, helicopters and UAV, or any other terrestrial vehicle.
    Software Tools

    A full range of software tools for Windows XP is available for convenient on-aircraft ground support (equipment set-up, pre-flight check) with a portable PC, using either recorder control interface port, and providing easy and user-friendly assistance at system integration.
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    Remote Sensing
    ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS, a historical RF and antenna system manufacturer for over the past 20 years, has distilled a complete line of products of Full Motion Antenna Systems during the last decade from its activities in the field of Remote Sensing.
    By proposing highly evolutive systems based on the Cortex flagship product-lines, our turnkey Earth Observation ground stations empower our customers with a long term tool to leverage their operations and their legitimacy in the field of satellite-based remote imaging.
    Our Earth Observation ground stations are today acknowledged as reference solutions by military and equivalent user community.
    Our antenna department has proven over the years to fulfil and overpass technical commitments, deliver on time, and provide sustained high-quality after-sales services, with a strategy fostering standardized system sub-elements and extensive ?-la-carte services. Our expertise and know-how even cross the borders of the Remote-Sensing community as they broaden up to the fields of UAV datalink controls, battleship-borne antennas and aero-defense systems.
  • Earth Observation Integrated Ground Segment
          - HEXAPOD - X - band Compact Station
          - Omni-role large aperture Omni-role large aperture
          - Military-class tactical trailer Military tactical trailer

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  • Satellite TT&C - Ranging
    ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS designs and manufactures from equipment to complete turnkey solutions for the most important and critical space applications, such as science payload reception from Deep Space probes or Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites or , in-orbit control during LEOP (Launch and Early Orbit Phase) and housekeeping operations for all satellites (LEO, MEO, GEO, ....).
    Our product family is underpinned by the Cortex Product Family, IN SNEC Brand, market leader with our best-sellers TT&C products: Cortex CRT (Command Ranging & Telemetry) for all kind of satellites, Cortex DTR (Digital Tracking Receiver), for satellite tracking, Cortex DS (Deep Space probes tracking) . The Cortex product familiy is associated with a full RF S-Band product range, including Frequency Converters, LNA and SSPA. All these products are fully compatible with the latest standards as CCSDS, SLE and Spread Spectrum including Turbocode and LDPC decoding. All our products are designed for the Customer full benefit with high performance, reliability and risk free thanks to optimized industrial processes and dedicated Customer support.At the system level, Zodiac Data Systems’ offers complete sub-system with S-Band TT&C Ground Station (antenna, positioner, electronics…) associated or not with the X-Band reception station for Remote Sensing. Each single item of these subsystems is entirely designed and built " in-house” TT&C products are widely used for Communication and Digital Video Broadcast satellites in-orbit control, for the Science programs with high bit rates, but also for Deep Space probes with very noisy transmission. Today, more then 2000 Cortex are currently in operation to control more than 300 spacecrafts
    Software Defined Radio - Satcom QoS Monitoring
     
    With its long experience in RF domain and digital signal processing, ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS design and manufacture Software Defined Radio (SDR) COTS products available as Boards , stand alone rack-mounted units, and also complete solutions (hardware/software) Due to tremandous increase of number of satellites, their localisation and the required performances, the quality of data communications is becoming more and more critical. Whether they are accidental or on purpose, it is mandatory to have the capability to detect any interference, to analyze it and to locate where it is coming from. In order to improve the Quality of Service (QoS) of your satellite communications, ZODIAC DATA SYSTEMS provides solutions to detect, analyze, trace and locate interferences.
     
    CSI - Carrier & Signal Inspector>>>
    CSM - Carrier & Signal Monitoring>>>
    CSA - Carrier & Signal Analyzer>>>
    CGL - Compact GeoLocation>>>
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    SDR - Data Acquisition boards
    - VME - IFoIP - WB-x-y-z Acquisition boards
    - VME Baseband over IP board 8 channels

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