Presentation to

Francisco Barreiro.- Engineering Director, Aerosp. Div.

Moscow30th June 2006

Interests & Objectives

To present:

TCP’s overall company capabilities and expertise (briefly)

TCP’s overall activities in the aerospace sector (briefly, also)

A brief summary of the results of Phase A activities conducted by TCP, within AE ESP2003-10799-E

TCP’s possible contribution and interests

TCP Sistemas e Ingeniería

TCP Sistemas e Ingeniería, S.L. is a Spanish independent company in the field of Software Engineering

The company was set up in 1992 by a group of professionals coming from the Informatics, Communications and Aerospace businesses

TCP’s headquarter is placed in Madrid (Spain). Besides, the company has offices in Valladolid (Spain), Ashburn (VA, USA) and Sao Paolo (Brazil)

Currently TCP employs nearly 300 highly skilled professionals (90% university graduates)

The Aeroespace Division represents aprox. a 10% of the company

TCP: A bird’s eye view

TCP

Management systems

ITIL

BusinessProcesses

RequirementsEngineering

Man-MachineCollaborativeControl Systems

Mobility

Operators& PTTs

IT Systems

Banks

Insurance Co.Aerospace

Transport

Telecom

IRqA

SW Factory

Aerospace BU TCP’s expertise in the aerospace field started since the

company origin in 1993.

Presently, TCP’s Aerospace Division is formed by 25 engineers working in two main fields of activities:

On-board SW Ground Segment: Monitoring and Control (M&C) and

Tele-operation applications

Our main customers in this sector are ESA, specially ESOC, and EADS-CASA

On-board Software Our main fields of expertise in on-board SW are:

Real-Time Developments Safety-Critical Developments Testing: Test Harness Generation (THG) Certification (RTCA-DO/178B)

Specifically, TCP is working since 2004 in the development, implementation and validation of a adaptive flight control system for UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicles)

Other open areas in this field include autonomy systems for planetary missions, combining on- board capabilities of control, navigation, planning and autonomous decision making, with ground based capabilities

Ground Segment: M&C Systems

Stations Management: GMCT: General M&C Tools CSMC: Central Station M&C, allows automatic ground station control

and fully remote operations FEC-NT: Antenna Front-End Controller, ESA’s baseline for its EO and

DSN stations PPIU: Power Plant Interface Unit, provides station power plant M&C SDAS: Building installations supervisory systems

Kiruna(CSMC, PPIU, FEC)

Redu(PPIU,FEC)

Kourou(FEC, PPIU)

Goldstone(NDIU)

Malindi(FEC,CSMC)

Maspalomas(FEC)

ESOC(CSMC, PPIU)

ESTEC(SDAS)

New Norcia,Perth(FEC)

Villafranca(PPIU, FEC, CSMC)

Cebreros(FEC)

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Scientific Operations • SAVIO: SOA framework & components for web- based

distributed systems• DYNACORE: provides instrument remote operation• CMMOC: Multimission Scientific Operations Centre

Ground Segment: Tele-operation

Mission requirements and assumptions

Ground Stations Technical requirements

Ground Stations proposed baseline

Phase A: Ground Stations System

WP 3400 output documents: Ground Stations part ofCustomer Requirements Document Ground Segment Baseline DefinitionSpace to Ground Interface Control Document

Final report

Ground Segment Structure

GROUND SEGMENT

Ground Operations Organisation GROUND SYSTEM

Mission ControlSystem

EGSE´s Ground Communications

Subnet

GroundStationsSystem

SupportingInfrastructures

MOC SOCSpace

SegmentControlStations

MissionExploitation

Stations

Mission requirements and assumptions

Telecommunications: L2 orbit (1.6-1.8MKm), 5 years nominal mission

15M antennas, in X-band

ESA’s X-b near-earth transponder (like Hershel-Plank)

Max. data rate downlink 1.5Mbps.

Data production rate: 32 Gbits per day.

8 hours/day for downloading the data Ground Stations under consideration:

o Argentina (Falda del Carmen)o P.R. China (Miyun)o Russia (Facilities TBC)o South Africa (Sat. Appli. Centre, CSIR)o Spain (Villafranca, ESA)

Mission requirements and assumptions

Other:

Minimize need of specific resources

Variable number of centres during the mission lifetime

Minimal requirements on architecture and communications infrastructure. Same configuration HW/SW in each layer

Distributed, international environment, ground segment distributed operations (scientific & mission)

Possible MOCs, SOCs role rotation

Up to 4 ground stations. Normal working hours operations, 2-3 hour-a-day per station

Ground Stations Technical Requirements

Functional requirements (15m antenna)

downlink: Xband. G/T=38Db/K

uplink: X band. EIRP=81dBW

ranging: required but not simultaneous TM rng

data rate: DL 1.5 Mbps / UL: 40/400 bps, 4kbps

data processing: CCSDS standard with Reed Solomon

and Viterbi coding

Modulation SCD mode, OQPSK or GMSK

S/No 70dBHz

BER 1E-5 or less. 5dB TM recovery

Ground Stations Technical Requirements

Cross support and interoperability:M&C: full station configuration and routine operations automationSLE services: RAF, RCF, CLTURaw data storage & archive Use of COTS

Design, implementation, maintenance ECSS recommendations and SLE compliance

Ground Stations Technical Requirements

General requirements on Ground Station Network Need of a GSN Management layer (1 to 4 stations co-

ordinated) to ensure 8 h continued operations (routine)

Primary and backup network TM on line real time transfer to MOC Science transfer via offline public network Support systems: operations automation and remote

operation. Coordination tools.

Network interface: consider co-located CCs or enough bandwith to fullfill on line comms.

Ground Stations Proposed baseline

Some TBDs:

Definition of G/S Service provision, to replace the requirement of identical HW/SW cfg (due to heterogeneous G/S)

WSO/UV mission service agreement

QoS TBD

Req. on G/S layer Coordination with MOC/SOC layer

Now some questions ...

Modifications of the space to ground IF ?

Ground Stations to consider ?

Modifications on ground segment concept ?

Communications infrastructure ?

International standards (SLE) assumed ?

... ?

TCPSI possible contribution

Ground Stations G/S Management (M&C, Automation) Management of heterogeneous G/S Network:(remote

M&C, scheduling and coordination)

Distributed SOC Science goal tracking tools planning & scheduling tools workflow and coordination remote payload operations via web simulation framework tools security tools Proposals management tools e-collaboration

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