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Deployment of EUTELSATs New Generation
Constellation Control System (Neo)

(a key hifly
deployment)by J. NogueroGMV S.A. Isaac Newton
11, Tres Cantos, 28760, Spain.www.gmv.com
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Contents
Table of Contents

• How can we improve Operations in Satellite
  Fleets/Constellations?
• GMV in Mission Control Systems
• The Need cost reduction
• hiflys multi-mission reference model
• hiflys multi-mission support
• Conclusions

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GMV in Mission Control Systems
Some relevant activities in early 2004 (1/4)

• XMM SOC maintenance (first-line, second-line,
  on-call, etc)
• CRYOSAT MCS delivered
• GOCE MCS under development
• Finishing procurement of the Spainsat MCS
• Procurement of the constellation control system
  for Arabsat 4A and 4B

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GMV in Mission Control Systems
Some relevant activities in early 2004 (2/4)

• Full maintenance of Eutelsats constellation
  control system
• first-line
• second-line
• on-call

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GMV in Mission Control Systems
Some relevant activities in early 2004 (3/4)

• Finished procurement of the New Eutelsat Open
  (Neo) Constellation Control System
• Neo will fly more than 20 satellites from 5
  different manufacturers over the next 15 years
  and beyond
• Finished support for Eurostar 3000
• Finished support for Eurostar 2000
• Finished support for Spacebus 3000

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GMV in Mission Control Systems
Some relevant activities in early 2004 (4/4)

• Galileo Constellation
• SCOS-2000 Release 4.0 development (basic
  foundation of the future Galileo Constellation
  Control System)
• Cross domain displays
• Cross domain synthetic (derived) parameters
• Multi-mission desktop
• Developing core TM TC chains for the Galileo
  STB-V2 satellite
• Development (phase C0) of Galileo Constellation
  Control System

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The Need cost reduction
How can we reduce the cost of satellite
constellations?

• In the past years satellite operators have
  procured a different control system
  infrastructure for each mission
• Satellite operators are today looking into the
  benefits of a single homonegeous MCS
  infrastructure to operate the entire fleet

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hiflys multi-mission reference model
Homogeneous operations support

• During the last 10 years GMV has maintained and
  developed the Eutelsat SCC delivering
• homogeneous operations support for a
  heterogeneous constellation of
  more than 20 satellites from
  5 different manufacturers
• Astriums Eurostar 2000/3000
• Alcatels Spacebus 3000
• Alenias Satelcom
• Boeings BSS-376
• NPO-PMs Ekspress

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hiflys multi-mission reference model
Homogeneous operations support

• EUTELSAT has set a worldwide reference model for
  cost efective constellation operations
• In this period GMV has significantly improved
  such operations concept and has deployed advanced
  multi-mission components

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hiflys multi-mission reference model
Homogeneous operations support

• This continuous effort feeds into a comprehensive
  off-the-shelf constellation control solution for
  commercial satellite operations hifly
• As key hifly deployment by GMV and SciSys,
  EUTELSATs New Generation Constellation Control
  System (Neo) replaces the old Eutelsat SCC and
  significantly improves Fleet operations support

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hiflys multi-mission reference model
Homogeneous operations support

• hiflys achievements
• Captures support that is common to different
  satellite buses
• generalises bus-specific support
• hifly is powered by SCOS-2000, the European
  Space Agencys MC Kernel, and therefore benefits
  from powerful core processing chains and
  readiness for future commercial satellites
  featuring packet TM

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hiflys multi-mission support
hiflys flexible deployment onto target hardware
infrastructures

• Processing chains from different satellites may
  run on the same server node
• Multi-mission clients hosted in dedicated
  workstations
• Client and server components may be deployed onto
  the same host, for example, a standard portable
  PC under Linux

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hiflys multi-mission support
hiflys multi-mission MC desktop

• Capability to deliver homogeneous support for the
  MC of heterogeneous satellites from a single
  hardware platform (typically a client
  workstation)
• Capability to activate different workspaces
  associated to different satellites or associated
  to different sets of satellites to enable
  focussing in operations associated to a given
  satellite or set of satellites

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hiflys multi-mission support
hiflys multi-mission MC desktop

• Indication of major events associated to
  satellites belonging to workspaces that are not
  being displayed Global awareness
• Capability to view satellite data in satellite
  dedicated telemetry displays
• Capability to view satellite data for several
  satellites in a single display (alphanumeric,
  graphical, and mimic)
• Capability to view and process cross-domain
  derived parameters summarising status information
  from several satellites

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hiflys multi-mission support
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hiflys multi-mission support
Constellation support in hiflys FleetMan

• FleetMan supports the MC of all hifly nodes and
  provides centralised alarms handling
• Monitoring
• Global snapshot of infrastructure status
• Events logging and retrieval
• Physical and logical Views
• Control
• Process start and stop
• Activation of different missions
• Operations swap (standby/online)

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hiflys multi-mission support
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hiflys multi-mission support
Constellation support in FleetMan

• Central alarms management
• Certain alarms forwarded to central node
• Acknowledged from the Central Node
• Data source indication in each alarm (satellite
  or external system)

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hiflys multi-mission support
Constellation support in FleetMan
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hiflys multi-mission support
Constellation support in DeskTM

• DeskTM is a hifly component providing satellite
  telemetry availability at the Microsoft Office
  desktop
• DeskTM can be qualified as follows
• Very lightweight and easy to use telemetry client
  (RT displays, limit checks, store playback,
  data export, etc)
• Integrated telemetry monitoring capabilities for
  the entire constellation

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hiflys multi-mission support
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hiflys multi-mission support
Constellation support in DPWizard

• DPWizard is a hifly component delivering
  third-generation derived parameters technology
• DPWizard provides homogeneous support for all
  satellites in the constellation as follows
• On-line access to all derived parameter
  definitions
• Copy of derived parameter definitions from one
  satellite to another
• Activation of full sets of derived parameters for
  the entire constellation

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hiflys multi-mission support
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hiflys multi-mission support
Constellation support in

• focusSuite is GMVs complete flight dynamics
  solution for satellite operations
• focusSuite can be qualified as follows
• Single consistent MMI that enables to manage all
  supported satellites in the constellation
• Homogeneous access to telemetry and ranging data
  through hiflys unified external interface
• Adapts to any deployment onto a target hardware
  architecture by resolving the location of the
  servers that host support for the required
  satellites

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hiflys multi-mission support
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hiflys multi-mission support
Constellation support in
Autofocus is GMVs solution for station keeping
automation Autofocus delivers homogeneous
integrated station keeping automation where orbit
determination and manoeuvre calculation can be
managed from a single position for the entire
constellation
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hiflys multi-mission support
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Conclusions
Conclusions (1/3)

• Satellite operators are today considering the
  advantages of homogeneous constellation
  operations support for their heterogeneous
  satellite constellations
• The approach is extremely cost effective and
  delivers a huge degree of flexibility for
  incorporating heterogeneous satellites in and
  evolving constellation

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Conclusions
Conclusions (2/3)

• hifly delivers today a comprehensive
  constellation operations support with huge cost
  savings and increased reliability
• Perfective/corrective/adaptive maintenance
  performed once for all missions (1 / N cost
  savings)
• Homogeneous support enables users to stay
  focussed on operations avoiding the need to cope
  with different approaches associated to different
  satellite specific control systems
• A large amount of training is valid for all
  supported satellites (cost savings and increased
  consistency and reliability in operations)

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Conclusions
Conclusions (3/3)

• Software support procedures and tools are the
  same for all supported satellites (cost savings
  and increased consistency in software support
  activities, increased overall reliability and a
  major asset towards reliability in first line
  maintenance).
• High percentage of functionality directly
  applicable to new platforms radical cut-down of
  costs associated to the deployment of operations
  support for new satellite buses.
• The flexible deployment of processing components
  implies much less hardware required with the
  capability to deploy onto low cost platforms
  (flight proven under Linux)