ESOC Data Systems Infrastructure Status and Plans

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ESOC Data Systems Infrastructure Status and Plans

• 8th November, 2005 - Darmstadt
• M. Pecchioli, Y. Doat (OPS-GI)
• ESA/ESOC

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Outline

• Status and Plans of the Mission Control System
  infrastructure
• Status and Plans of the Simulators Infrastructure
• Status and Plans of the Test and Validation
  Systems infrastructure
• Status and Plans of the Station Monitoring and
  Control infrastructure
• Status and Plans of the SLE implementation
  infrastructure (user and provider)

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MCS Infrastructure Main on-going activities (1/2)

• SCOS-2000 R4.0 development
• First multi-domain version
• Support of hybrid configurations
• Servers hostname independence (Process Location
  Service)
• Hot redundant global processes (Users and CORBA
  Naming Servers)
• Support of System Control application
• Harmonised usage of client APIs (e.g. CPD, MISC,
  Printouts)
• Significantly improved test environment
• Rationalised/automated installation
• Centralised events definition management
• Command sources split (model/view)
• Many functional upgrades (e.g. OOL reports
  generation).
• SCOS-2000 R5.0 CFIs development
• PARC new generation packet archive (based on
  relational databases)
• TMCR TM processing Chain Re-engineering
  (including model/view split).
• Generic File Transfer System (GFTS) development
• Generic mechanisms to deliver files to ground
  data systems.

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MCS Infrastructure Main on-going activities (2/2)

• Services Management Framework (SMF) development
• Generic mechanisms for providing services to
  other systems
• Enables transparent access to system interfaces
  by means of a standardised (ECSS E-70-31 like)
  approach.
• File Archive (FARC) development
• Generic implementation to manage files in ground
  data systems
• Enables transparent access to files via
  logical names.
• SCOS-2000 R5.0 development
• Split of processing/visualisation for all client
  applications
• Centralised/harmonised management of all files
  (in the FARC)
• System Configuration Manager
• Clean-up of platform specific implementations
  (e.g. endianity)
• Support of powerful external interfaces (suitable
  for ground operations automation) via SMF
• Support of automated regression testing
• Re-engineering of run-time database management
  (POST)
• SLE upgrades (F-CLTU, FSP, R-OCF).

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MCS Infrastructure SCOS-2000 Status

• SCOS-2000 R3.1 (and compatible ancillary systems)
  is widely used (at ESOC and outside) and is in a
  mature state.
• SCOS-2000 R4.0 development has been completed
• PA version has been distributed to a selected
  number of ESA client missions
• FA expected by the end of January 2005.
• SCOS-2000 R5.0 is currently being developed
• The main CFIs to be integrated/used (PARC, TMCR,
  FARC, SMF) are currently undergoing preliminary
  acceptance
• FA of the complete system expected by Q2 2007.
• The EGOS Low Level Components (to be adopted in
  SCOS-2000 R6.0) are currently being defined
  (requirements engineering phase ongoing).

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MCS Infrastructure The target architecture
Monitoring and Control Framework
Archive
Users
System MC
Alarms
User Desktop
Others
EGOS Framework
Common Libraries
Events Logging
Service Directory
Configuration Management
Others
Others
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Simulator Infrastructure Main on-going activities

• Simulators Infrastructure (SIMSAT, Generic and
  Ground Models) R3.0 development
• Porting to Linux
• Adoption of platform independent technology
  (Java, CORBA, XML)
• Automated unit testing
• Compilation and validation on 64 bit platforms.
• TMTCS Interface (TIF) Ground Model development
• Enables the involvement of the real TMTCS in
  simulations based on the high-fidelity spacecraft
  simulator or using the generic infrastructure
  TM/TC model
• SIMSAT R4.0 development
• Support of SMP-2 standard (but keeping backwards
  compatibility with SMP-1 models)
• Support of model integration environment
• Architectural re-organisation to support SMP-2
  concepts
• Migration of SIMSAT MMI to Java SWT and Eclipse
  RCP
• Various functional improvements.

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Simulator Infrastructure Current Status

• Simulator Infrastructure R2.x (Windows-2003
  based) is still being maintained
• Simulator Infrastructure R3.0 development has
  been completed
• SIMSAT Final (FA) version is currently being
  accepted
• Generic Models have been provisionally accepted
• Ground Models are currently being provisionally
  accepted.
• TMTCS Interface (TIF) development
• Provisionally accepted under Windows
• Development started under Linux (based on
  Simulator Infrastructure R3.0)
• SIMSAT R4.0 requirements engineering phase is
  ongoing.

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Test and Validation Infrastructure Main on-going
activities

• Portable Satellite Simulator R1 development has
  been completed
• Based on Simulator Infrastructure R2.x
  (Windows-2003)
• Generic set of components supporting the
  execution of a variety of subsystem, integration
  and system tests of the ground segment
• Capable of interfacing to station equipment via
  hardware interfaces (IF, Video or baseband) as
  well as via LAN interface (bypassing the IFMS).
• Gound Systems Test Validation Infrastructure
  (GSTVi) R1 development just kicked-off
• Similar in concept to PSS but wider in scope
• Based on SIMSAT R4.0 and Ground Models R3.x
  (Linux)
• Generic SMP-2 models representing the TM/TC
  behaviour of spacecraft
• Capability to simulate the most important
  on-board PUS services
• Support of a Control Center (S2KNIS) model
• Support of the most important test set-up
  required in all phases of the ground segment
  validation (isolated system tests, integration
  testing, system validation tests, end-to-end
  tests, operational tests)

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Test and Validation Infrastructure Current Status

• PSS R1.x (Windows-2003 based)
• Already deployed in a number of ESA ground
  stations
• Still in warranty but already in a mature state
• Last version (R1.2.2) can be used for isolated
  MCS testing as well as in NDIU Ultra Light
  mode
• Shows good performance in both hardware and
  software set-ups.
• GSTVi R1 (Linux/SMP-2) just kicked-off!

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MC Infrastructure Main on-going activities

• STC2 R5.5 development
• Support of new devices
• Object Communication updated to support CORBA
• Correction of various SPR.
• GSTS R.5.5 development
• Correction of various SPR.
• MC Evolution toward EGOS 2007-2008

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STC2 Infrastructure A possible target
architecture
GUIs
STC2 Components
Server Application
Command Handler
Other STC2 Applications
Tailoring Applications
Procedure Handler
Monitoring and Control Framework
Archive
Users Management
Data processing
Others
User Desktop
Other Mid Level Components
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SLE Infrastructure Main on-going activities

• SLE Service Management development
• Red book review first halt 2006
• Implementation in EMS (TNC) in 2007
• SLE API toolkit development
• Toolkit definition in 2006
• New services implementation in 2007Return
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