Customer: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

Programme: ATV

Supply Chain: CNES > CS Group SPACE

Context

CS Group responsabilities for ATV mission team support are as follows:

• Operations support

The features are as follows:

• Training Instructor: Preparation of tests, creation of scenarios, drafting of plans and follow-up, support to ESA for the preparation of simulations
• Interface with FDS teams
• Planner: Preparation of the flight plan, checking its consistency and transmission to the teams
• Operation Manager: real-time coordination of operations in accordance with the flight plan, management of operational contingencies; interface with partners

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• Operations support within the ATV team
• Operational pre-Qualification, Operational Qualification and ATV operations phases
• Support to the Mission team for the roles of Training Instructor, Planner, Operation Manager

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• Support Team

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• Means of the ATV control center
• Mastery of the components of the ATV mission
• Operational planning
• Continuity of service 24 hours a day during the flight phases, team of 11 engineers (average)

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Hardware environment(s)	PC
Operating System(s)	Linux
Programming language(s)	KornShell, SCILAB
Production software (IDE, DEVOPS etc.)	cygwin, oscar, doors