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:

• Support for operations

The features are as follows:

• Training instructor: preparation of tests, creation of scenario, drafting of plans and follow -up, support for ESA for the preparation of simulations
• Interface with FDS teams
• Planner: preparation of the flight plan, verification of 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:

• Support for operations within the ATV team
• Operational pre-qualification phases, operational qualification and ATV operations
• Support to the Mission team for the training roles 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
• Continuation of the 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