Musis

MUSIS ( Multinational Space -based Imaging System for Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Observation ) was a multilateral European program to develop a common core Ground Segment (generic User Ground Segment, UGS) for military reconnaissance satellites. It should provide an initial capability in 2015. The program consisted of the states of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Belgium. As a Category B project under the umbrella of the European Defence Agency ( EDA) should be processed by the OCCAR.

The satellite itself ( the so-called space segments ) should remain with their owners. However, one should be strictly regulated access to a well- quoted image capacity per user and space segment on the UGS. The observed spatial segments were:

• Successor system of the French Helios II, called: composante Spatiale Optique (CSO )
• Successor system of the Italian COSMO- Skymed; called: COSMO Second Generation (CSG )
• A Spanish optical wide-range satellite system; called: Ingenio (formerly SEOSAT )

As with CSG already have access to an essentially civilian system of ASI ( Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ) ( max. 17 % of the image capacity should be provided to all military users available ) was taken into account was discussed briefly, even more civilian satellites such as the German systems, TerraSAR -X, Tandem -X and EnMap involve.

With the hearing on 6 / 7 May 2010, the program was substantially completed what had already been signed but early.