Customer: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

Programme: Spot Helios

Supply Chain: CNES > CS Group SPACE

Context

CS Group responsabilities for Support for soil operations of the Helios 2A / 2B post maintenance center are as follows:

• Strengthen CNES teams, maintain CMPs in operational conditions, comply with operational constraints

The features are as follows:

• **Exploitation of CMP **, namely :
• 24 -hour soil penalty: Conf exploitation monitoring. hardware and software
• Monitoring of installations, guarantee of the integrity of software
• Participation in operational meetings
• Supports at the tests of the team, mission, orbito teams **Technical management of subsystems ** (STS, Dutch, CGCU, EGM, OMGS, FOS/ARPE, CCS, …), namely :
• Software monitoring with regard to the industrial resp. maintenance
• Validation of new versions
• Support for on -call duty if software problems
• Preparation for CNES software monitoring commissions

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• Ensure operations for the operating floor service for positions to post Helios satellites as a delegation of tasks
• MCO (Maintaining operational conditions) of the Middle Sol used to ensure the operations of satellites in the Helios sector

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• V Cycle

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• Maintaining skills to ensure the MCO and support for operations over a very long period

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Hardware environment(s)	HP-UX, PC
Operating System(s)	Linux RedHat, Windows
Interoperability (protocols, format, APIs)	BPD, FTP, VMWare
Production software (IDE, DEVOPS etc.)	Testlink
Main COTS library(ies)	CRYSPIS, NetBackup