Customer: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

Programme: CO3D

Supply Chain: CNES > CS Group SPACE

Context

CS Group responsabilities for Mission CO3D simulator are as follows:

• Development

The features are as follows:

• Mission Programming Simulator
• Comparison of mission performance for different satellite or mission designs
• Long-term progress analysis of on-going projects (including bi-satellite stereo mapping of all the emerged lands),
• Comparison of mission performance regarding scheduled acquisitions properties
• Dimensioning needs evaluation (reservations of station passages, satellite memory, etc.).

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• Realization of configurable and fast tools to simulate the mission programming of the land cover over a long term horizon in order to validate the industrial choices on the definition of the satellites and the constellation, and to study various programming alternatives ;
• CO3D mission programming support

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• V Cycle

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• Provide the customer with efficient programming alternative analysis tools on large horizons
• Bring a capacity to understand the mission issues
• Earth -observation Mission programming experience
• Development of optimized mission simulators in terms of calculation time.
• Responsiveness to customer needs.

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Hardware environment(s)	PC
Operating System(s)	Windows, Linux
Programming language(s)	Java
Interoperability (protocols, format, APIs)	XML
Production software (IDE, DEVOPS etc.)	Eclipse, Testlink, git
Main COTS library(ies)	POLARIS