Abstract
The increasing demand for the economy of future application satellite systems will push the development of new technologies, for example in the area of RF-sensing and electrical propulsion. These systems will require a more active involvement of the ground stations. Given this constraint, the paper will discuss how far the goal of keeping the spacecraft as self-contained as possible is still advantageous. The discussion will cover to what extent the ground stations can be preferably included in the active control loop in order to optimise the total system still respecting the constraint that - for limited periods of time - the ground stations or their communication links to the satellite may fail and that during this period the spacecraft has to be kept operational.
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