Objectives and Concepts of the European Ground Systems Common Core (EGS-CC)

Abstract

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 preand post-launch phases for all mission types. This will bring a number of benefits, such as the seamless transition from spacecraft Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) to mission operations, reduce cost and risk, support the modernisation of legacy systems and promote the exchange of ancillary implementations across organizations. The initiative is being undertaken as a collaboration of ESA, European National Agencies and European Prime Industry. In this paper we describe the main objectives of the EGS-CC initiative, the overall system concept and the features it will provide.