What a week at SpaceOps! Our ESOC experts in mission operations, flight dynamics, ground segment engineering, space safety, and colleagues from across ESA, attended the 2025 edition of the conference of space operations community, held this year in Montréal, Canada.

The programme reflected the growing importance of sustainability topics and showed the wide interest of the space community, from industry to space agencies. 

Our booth hosted an engaging session on Artificial Intelligence and the Space Industry, with a live chat with industry experts to explore how AI is transforming the world of space operations and ESOC’s activities related to the A2I Roadmap and demonstrations of some operational AI applications.  Related to this ESOC is currently running a series of "Secure your AI" competitions to further build the community, technology and use-cases around these themes.

Two SpaceOps Awards were won by ESOC team members: 

• Libe Jauregui, on behalf of the Aeolus re-entry operations team, accepted the International SpaceOps Award for Outstanding Achievement 2025. The award celebrated the innovative end-of-life strategy and first-of-its-kind semi-controlled re-entry that was devised by the team.
• Arnaud Boutonnet was awarded the International SpaceOps Exceptional Achievement Medal for the design of the JUICE interplanetary transfer, which included the world's first Lunar-Earth double gravity assist manoeuvre.

38 papers were presented by our experts, on topics ranging from anomaly detection to satellite end-of-life operations, ESTRACK station scheduling optimisation and the solar system internet.

Conference proceedings will be available to all attendees in the coming weeks.