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CCSDS Brochure Advancing Technology With International Agreements To Use That Technology ARIANNE 5 Shuttle-OV105 Shuttle CS Gateway TSU HTV-09 TPF Solar Probe CRM Rømer DSCOVR MYTH IKAROS AMOS-4 ST-2 Standards stifle innovation KOMPSAT-3A(TC) KOMPSAT-3A(TLM) ASNARO GSAT201 GSAT0199 W6A FACT IXV GOES-R(A) O3B model1 CCSDS stimulates advanced technology SPRINT-A GEOEYE-2 IRIS by adopting, adapting, developing, SES-6 APSTAR7BCS12 APSTAR7BCsim ASTRO-H and solidifying innovations with FORMOSAT-5 EUROBIRD-2A DZZ-HR exposure to a wider community. YAMAL-402 INGENIO FM INGENIO EQM SICRAL 2 ABS-2 ARSAT-2 HAYABUSA 2 VNREDSAT-1 W3D MYTH STANDARDS… BIROS BIROS-EM SWARM-C Standards delay implementation LOWER COST FLYINGLAPTOP AMAZONIA 1 SLATS TURKSAT-4A LOWER RISK OPTUS-10 HIMAWARI-8 FACT CSO-1-S INCREASE CAPABILITY CSO-1-Ssim CSO-Stests Not if the innovation is brought into the MEASAT-3B E3B KAZSAT-3 standards process early. Delays result IRNSS-1A When an innovative technology ATHENAFIDUS ATHENAF-sim is rapidly brought to the GEMS from reluctance to standardize, M3MSAT standards community, it is vetted DIRECTV-15 O3BMODEL 9 not from standardization. with a larger user base, hence ORB-5 CINEMA facilitating the widespread EXPRESSAT1 EXPRESSAM4R adoption of innovative GEMS HTV-DM technology. HTV-EM MASER Service Module PAZ CCSDS Track Record PROBA-V EarthCare as of May 2012: APSTAR-7 ADS-1B ASTRA-2E RCM-1 CCSDS currently has 69 active JASON-3sim AB7 standards and practices APSTAR7sim SDS-4 NPOESS C6 571 spaceflight missions have CON-X1 MetOp-C used various CCSDS standards NPOESS C5 ExoMars LISA NPOESS C4 MMS ATV-6 COMS-2 MMS 1 EnMAP JASON-3 JWST CCSDS was formed in 1982 by the major space agencies of the world to provide a forum for solving common problems in the AGENCIES development and operations of space data systems. It has developed Recommended Standards and Recommended Practices for data and communications systems to: a) Promote interoperability and cross MEMBER OBSERVER support among cooperating space AGENCIES AGENCIES agencies to reduce operations costs by ASI/Italy ASA/Austria sharing facilities CNES/France BFSPO/Belgium b) Reduce the cost to the various agencies CNSA/China CAS/China of performing common data functions, CSA/Canada CAST/China by eliminating unjustified project-unique design and development DLR/Germany CLTC/China ESA/Europe CSIR/South Africa Currently membership includes: FSA/Russia CSIRO/Australia 11 Member Agencies INPE/Brazil DCTA/Brazil 28 Observer Agencies JAXA/Japan DNSC/Denmark 145 Commercial Associates NASA/USA EUMETSAT/Europe CCSDS also functions as an ISO Standards UKSA/UK EUTELSAT/Europe Committee, Technical Committee 20 GISTDA/Thailand Subcommittee 13 (TC20-SC13), Space HNSC/Greece Data and Information Transfer Systems. In this capacity, CCSDS/ISO-TC20-SC13 IKI/Russia represents 20 nations. ISRO/India KARI/Korea KFKI/Hungary MOC/Israel NCST/USA NICT/Japan NOAA/USA NSARK/Kazakhstan NSPO/Taipei SSC/Sweden SUPARCO/Pakistan TsNIIMash/Russia TUBITAK/Turkey USGS/USA www.ccsds.org On the CCSDS website our published OTHER FEATURES ON standards are downloadable for free. WWW.CCSDS.ORG PUBLICATIONS AS OF MAY 2012 • 50 Recommended Standards NEW WORK ITEMS Blue Books – normative and directly implementable ANNOUNCEMENTS for interoperability This is where CCSDS announces new initiatives, so technical experts can see • 19 Recommended Practices Magenta Books – normative, but not directly what exciting new technology work is being implementable, such as architectures, practices, etc. developed for standardization in CCSDS, and join the CCSDS team to help forge the • 44 Informational Reports future. These include new working groups, Green Books -- overviews, ops concepts, new document projects, new “Birds of a foundations for standards Feather” groups, etc. • And other documents Experimental, procedural, etc. THE CCSDS BLOG This is for general announcements of CCSDS REVIEW DOCUMENTS activity, such as new document reviews and meeting announcements. CCSDS conducts open, cross-organizational reviews, coordinated through space agency representatives for each nation. THE COLLABORATIVE From the CCSDS website, anyone (agency, WORK ENVIRONMENT industry, academia, etc.) with a solid This is the SharePoint work area where the technical background can represent their real work gets done. Public visitors can organization’s needs and contribute to view the working group structures, contact CCSDS document reviews. info, and material that is made public by the working groups. If you’re interested in joining a CCSDS working group, this is the place to start. CCSDS ARCHITECTURAL OVERVIEW This Architectural Overview shows the Areas and Working Groups (topics) that are currently, as of May 2012, developing new standards in CCSDS. Systems Engineering • Security • Space Assigned Numbers Authority • Delta-DOR MISSION CONTROL CENTER ARCHIVES & MISSION APPLICATIONS CONTROL CENTER Spacecraft Onboard Space Link Services Cross Support Services Space Internetworking Mission Operations Interface Services Services and Information • RF & Modulation • Cross Support Service Management Services • Onboard Wireless WG • Space Link Coding and Management • Asynch Messaging • Application Support Syncrinization • Cross Support Transfer • IP-over-CCSDS Links • Navigation Services (including • Multi/Hyper Data Services • Motion Imagery and • Spacecraft Monitor and Plug-and-Play) Compression • Cross Support Applications Control • Space Link Protocols Architecture • Delay Tolerant • Data Archive Ingestion • Next Generation Uplink Networking • Digital Repository • Space Data Link • Voice Audit/Certification Security • CFDP over Encap • Telerobotics • Planetary Communications Six Technical Areas • Optical Coding and Twenty-seven working bodies: Modification Working Group (producing standards) Birds of a Feather stage (pre-approval) Special Interest Group (integration forum) THE SIX TECHNICAL CROSS SUPPORT SERVICES (CSS) The CSS area addresses how space network AREAS DEVELOPING NEW resources are made available by one STANDARDS IN CCSDS organization to another for the purpose of “Cross Support.” The objective of the CSS area is therefore to define what services are required at various cross-support interface points, and how those services are exposed, scheduled, and used SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (SE) by organizations that want to confederate their The SE area supports the work of CCSDS by infrastructure in order to execute a mission. providing overall architecture for space mission communications, operations, and cross-support; SPACE INTERNETWORKING coordination and collaboration with the other SERVICES (SIS) areas about architectural choices and options; and evaluation of consistency of all area The SIS area provides services and protocols programs of work with the defined architecture. to address networked interactions of many forms: between spacecraft and earth-based resources, among spacecraft, between SPACECRAFT ONBOARD spacecraft and landed elements, and within INTERFACE SERVICES (SOIS) heterogeneous spacecraft. The SIS area deals The primary objective of the CCSDS SOIS area with communication services and protocols that is to improve the spacecraft flight segment data are independent of specific link technology systems design and development process by (as a lower layer bound) and independent of defining generic services that will simplify the application-specific semantics (as an upper way flight software interacts with flight hardware bound). This covers essentially the network and permit interoperability and reusability for through application layers of the OSI reference the benefit of agencies as well as industrial model. The SIS area accommodates all ranges contractors. of delay, interactivity, and directionality, although not all protocols are appropriate for all environments. SPACE LINK SERVICES (SLS) The SLS area develops efficient space link MISSION OPERATIONS AND communications systems common to all INFORMATION MANAGEMENT participating agencies. A space link interconnects SERVICES (MOIMS) a spacecraft with its ground support system or with another spacecraft. New generations The objective of the MOIMS area is to address all of space missions require telecommand of the flight execution phase applications that are and telemetry capabilities beyond current required to operate the spacecraft and its ground technologies. These new needs are for higher system in response to mission objectives and their data rates, better link performances, and associated detailed information management higher performing ranging systems. SLS area standards and processes. The focus of this area concentrates on radio frequency (RF) and is primarily on the “mission operations” functions modulation, channel coding, and data link layer that occur on a timescale driven by the flight path -- for both long-haul (e.g., spacecraft to ground) of the space vehicle. The MOIMS area ensures and proximity links (e.g., orbiter to lander). Two that application standards exist that facilitate the additional SLS functions are data compression for smooth transition of space mission information end-to-end data transfer optimization and ranging between the “mission operations” systems and for accurate orbit determination. the “mission utilization” systems. CCSDS BLUE BOOKS As of May 2012, CCSDS has 50 active CCSDS CCSDS Blue Books are required to be proven Blue Book publications. These are Recommended prior to publication by at least two independently Standards that can be implemented and developed prototypes that
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