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European Ground System – Common Core – Proof of Concept

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Generic


Customer: European Space Agency (ESA)

Programme: Generic

Supply Chain: ESA > CS Group SPACE

Context

Firm fixed price contract CS Effort: 34 man-months Team: CS: 5 persons Rhea: 3 persons Siemens: 3 persons Novabase: 1 person

CS Group responsabilities for European Ground System – Common Core – Proof of Concept are as follows:

  • Consortium leader (CS Group, Rhea, Siemens, Novabase)
  • Development, Maintenance

Main Picture

The features are as follows:

  • Detailed technologies analysis based on criteria defined in order to meet the relevant EGS-CC requirements.
  • Trade-off tests to ensure the best overall assemble of technologies working together.
  • PoC implementation and performance tests to ensure that the selected technologies are compliant with the EGS-CC requirements, mainly in the area of performance requirements and key functional requirements which depend on technologies and third party products

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

  • The European Ground Systems – Common Core (EGS-CC) is a European initiative to develop a common infrastructure to support space systems monitoring and control in pre- and post-launch phases for all types of missions.
  • The EGS-CC POC project is responsible for the analysis and selection of technologies potentially applicable to the EGS-CC system.

The processes for carrying out the project are:

  • Proof of Concept, analysis and selection of technologies potentially applicable to the EGS-CC system.

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

  • The EGS-CC has adopted for the technology selection process a set of criteria based on the FURPS+ model developed by Hewlett Packard and extending it with EGS-CC specific. This set of criteria has been refined at the start of the project, and applied throughout the work as part of the different activities performed.
  • Key aspects of the EGS-CC prototyped.

Archi Picture

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain Technology(ies)
Operating System(s) Linux
Programming language(s) Java, open-source technologies