Customer: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

Programme: Pléiades

Supply Chain: CNES > CS Group SPACE

Context

CS Group responsabilities for PLEIADES Mission Support are as follows:

• Support to CNES mission teams for the implementation of operational activities and the monitoring of PLEIADES missions

The features are as follows:

• Preparation, qualification and execution of mission operations
• Maintaining operational documentation
• Implementation of operational scenarios for training or maintenance of skills
• Missionization of operation tools
• Development of new procedures
• Support for the preparation of operations in the operational qualification phase, launch, posting, recipe in flight, routine

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• Support for CNES Mission teams for the implementation of operational activities and monitoring Pleiades, CSO and Helios missions

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• Technical Assistance

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• Mission management tools (DUPC, EGM, CPM)
• SDGC PHR, CMP Hélios and CPCC CSO environments and tools
• Operational control center
• Complex organizational environment
• Sensitive context (national defense)
• Mastery of technical (software) and functional elements (observation satellite mission in low orbit)
• Hotline support/4 engineers team

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Hardware environment(s)	Serveurs PC IBM, PC, Moyens du SDGC PHR, CMP HELIOS et CPCC CSO
Operating System(s)	Redhat Linux Enterprise 5, Windows
Interoperability (protocols, format, APIs)	scripts, XML
Main COTS library(ies)	Kerberos, LDAP, ACL