Ground Segment

The ground segment of Spica will be composed of several elements:

Spica Ground Segment

• A Mission Operations Centre:
  
  • Located in Japan linked to JAXA's SOC
  • Primary station Usuda (64m), additional ESOC station (Cebreros / DS3)
  • JAXA SOC interfaced to ESA's SOC

• A main Science Operations Centre, with additional SOC at ESA and Safari Instrument Control Center (ICC) in Europe

• An European Spica Science Centre:
  
  • ESA Spica Science Centre (ESSC) located at ESAC
  • Safari Instrument Control Centre (ICC), distributed in several European countries, contact via Principal Investigator (SRON)
  • ESSC to act as interface for the European community to the Spica observatory and interface between Safari ICC and JAXA's SOC/MOC