Customer: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Programme: Venμs
Supply Chain: CNES > CS Group SPACE
Context
CS Group responsabilities for Maintenance of the Venµs Image Production (VIP) center are as follows:
- Maintenance of the data center (VIP), the distribution server (VPDS), the qualification and operation support tools within the VEnµS ground segment

The features are as follows:
- Upgrade of COTS, image libraries and missions used by the center,
- Functional validation of the VIP center and VPDS,
- Integration of the PDS component developed by ACS,
- VIP Integration / Validation,
- Dimensioning of the hardware architecture and its upgrade,
- QT/QO phase support,
- Evolutive and Corrective maintenance during the mission,
Project implementation
The project objectives are as follows:
- Delivering an operational VIP/VPDS image processing center that takes into account the constraints of the VENµS mission during the operational phase.
The processes for carrying out the project are:
- Development and continuous integration (coding/unit tests)
Technical characteristics
The solution key points are as follows:
- Integration of the MACCS (image processor level L2/L3°) component,
- The image chain has taken into account the processing of stray light in the image processing chain (level L1).

The main technologies used in this project are:
| Domain |
Technology(ies) |
| Operating System(s) |
Linux CentOS 6.5 |
| Programming language(s) |
JAVA,JAVASCRIPT, C,C++, Python, PHP, SQL, SWING, ksh,HTML |
| Interoperability (protocols, format, APIs) |
XML |
| Main COTS library(ies) |
LAI (Euclide, POLLUX, MARIO, GDAL), PHRLIB , MSLIB |