A reference architecture for satellite systems operations

• Autor(a) principal: Adair Jose Rohling
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do INPE
• Texto Completo: http://urlib.net/sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21c/2018/09.11.17.51

Software for Satellite Control Systems (SCS) domain performs a relevant role in space systems, being responsible for ensuring the functioning of the satellites, from the orbit launch to the end of their lifetime. Systems in this domain are complex and are constantly evolving due to technological advancement of satellites, the significant increase of controlled satellites, and the interoperability among space organizations. However, in order to meet such complexity and such evolution, the architectures of these systems have been usually designed in an isolated way by each organization, hence may be prone to recurrent efforts and difficulties of interoperability. In parallel to this scenario, reference architecture, a special type of software architecture that aggregates knowledge of a specific domain, has performed an important role for the success in development, standardization, and evolution of systems in several domains. Nevertheless, the usage of reference architecture has not been explored in the SCS domain. Thus, this thesis presents a Reference Architecture for Satellite Operations Systems. Results achieved from using this reference architecture in the development of a Microsatellite Control System for National Institute for Space Research (INPE) showed a significant reduction of effort, benefits of interoperability, scalability, and sharing of ground resources.