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Spacecomms

Three founders from the German Space Operations Center of DLR bring openvocs to control rooms beyond spaceflight.

About us

From the DLR control room

The three founders helped develop openvocs at the German Space Operations Center and brought it into mission operations. Spacecomms now offers it to other control rooms, with modules, integration and support.

  1. GSOC
    Developed at DLRMarkus Töpfer starts openvocs in Oberpfaffenhofen to run distributed control centers.
  2. 2023
    First missionMORABA research campaign in Kiruna. Presented at SpaceOps 2023.
  3. 2025
    Version 2.0.1Open source under Apache-2.0 on GitHub.
  4. 2026
    Spacecommsopenvocs as a product for control rooms beyond spaceflight.
[Photo Markus Töpfer]
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Markus Töpfer

CO-FOUNDER · CEO

Architect of the openvocs engine and lead developer at DLR.

[Photo Anja Bertard]
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Anja Bertard

CO-FOUNDER · CTO

Develops the openvocs web clients.

[Photo Tobias Kolb]
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Tobias Kolb

CO-FOUNDER · CISO

Information security and compliance, operations and sales. Service owner of openvocs at DLR.

openvocs and Spacecomms

Open source · Apache-2.0

openvocs

The core was developed at DLR and is on GitHub under Apache-2.0. Anyone can read it, review it and run it themselves.

Product

Spacecomms

Supplies the distribution, the Recorder and SIP gateway modules, integration and support. For the delivered distribution, Spacecomms is the manufacturer as defined by the Cyber Resilience Act.

How we work

At GSOC we introduced openvocs together with the operations teams and fed their feedback straight into development. We keep working that way: whoever asks for support talks to the people who write the code.

Get in touch
Location
Dingelstädt, Thuringia, Germany
Email
sales@spacecomms.com