Customer: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Programme: Kineis
Supply Chain: CNES > CS Group SPACE
Context
CS Group responsabilities for SCC IVV, support in Technical and Operational Qualification and LEOP operations of N3SS et KINEIS missions are as follows:
- Piloting by CS GROUP of the IVV. Piloting by CNES of TQ/OQ tests and support for the LEOP and routine phases of the 5 KINEIS constellation launches

The features are as follows:
- **AIV **: Development of LDP procedures and missionary, definition of strategy, automated plans and execution of tests (AIV tools for managing contexts, results, requirements)
**QT/QO ** system tests: preparation and support for the execution of compatibility/qt/qo tests, development of operational procedures
**Support for operations **: Resources integrated in CNES teams for launch, the recipe in flight and beginning of life (shifts, soil clips)
Project implementation
The project objectives are as follows:
- Assistance to engineering and support for the realization of ** Integration, System and operations qualification ** of the ** segments of control of the n3ss satellite and the KINEIS ** constellation implementing the ** line of Isis products**
- Missionary and ISIS Integration on Cluster Science and Cloud
- Development of the CNES/ESA/NASA IOAG demonstrator
The processes for carrying out the project are:
- Requirements management (STB, If): Jira
- Specific assembly process, integration, validation qualification of control soil segments
- Tests qualification system for control soil segments: compatibility, technical and operational qualification
Technical characteristics
The solution key points are as follows:
- Configuration and deployment of SCCs: nominal, rescue, SCP/SSV (experts) and test lines
- Operational qualification channel TM/TC Isis: BDS configurations, sessions, Sle, COP, catalogs, TM visualization, TC Histo
- Implementation of ISIS operational concepts: procedures, automation
- Experienced AIV team for rapid skill rise
The main technologies used in this project are:
| Domain |
Technology(ies) |
| Hardware environment(s) |
N3SS Esx Dell, SAN, Appliance Netbackup, HP Thin Pro, switch, firewall, KINEIS Cloud |
| Operating System(s) |
Red Hat 7.5, VMWare, NoMachine, PXE |
| Programming language(s) |
Python, Bash |
| Interoperability (protocols, format, APIs) |
XML, XTCE, Jason, CCSDS, standard CNES XIF |
| Production software (IDE, DEVOPS etc.) |
JIRA, CONFLUENCE, Git, Ansible |
| Main COTS library(ies) |
Ldap, IDM, ZeroMQ, SGDB |