Customer: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

Programme: Pléiades

Supply Chain: CNES > AIRBUS DS > CS Group SPACE

Context

CS Group responsabilities for TMA Pleiades programming channel are as follows:

• Liability in co-contracting, prime contractor

The features are as follows:

• Programming Unit: Image requests, Prog., Reception stations
• Access Unit: User access interface
• DUPC UNIT: Satellite commands, Cu data
• PCME UNIT: International Defense Programming
• Processing unit: TMI inventory and archiving
• ImagereceIVINGSTATION UNIT: TMI reception and ingestion
• Accuratitudedatarestoration unit: fine attitude data
• Commandcontrol Unit: System and satellite settings
• Integration of Mission Phrlib/Gotlib Mission Bookstores

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• Development: engineering phases, software specifications, preliminary and detailed design, coding and unit tests, unit and AIV validation, recipe, warranty,
• MCO: Correction of anomalies and development of many functional developments.

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• V Cycle

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• Architecture strongly deployed, more than 200 XML file interfaces, web services
• Complexity of mission algorithms, performance requirements
• Civil duality/Defense
• Floor operating time of 25 years

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Operating System(s)	Linux, XP
Programming language(s)	C++, Java
Production software (IDE, DEVOPS etc.)	Oracle spatial, SIG OpenMap, Web Services, Apache Tomcat, Apache Axis, Kerbéros/LDAP ,Java web start, Xerces
Main COTS library(ies)	45 cots