GSOC's Service-Oriented Ground System "HCC" - Status and First Experiences from Sounding Rocket Missions

Abstract

At the German Space Operations Center (GSOC), a service-oriented ground system is developed under the working title "HCC". Beside the decomposition of the ground segment into services, these activities cover the definition and implementation of a common infrastructure framework consisting of basic services specifically suited for space operations: data transportation, security aspects, common configuration, centralized storage and further more. While primarily targeted to support satellite and human spaceflight operation, it was realized that this infrastructure also serves well for the ground data system of sounding rockets, launched and operated by GSOC's department "Mobile Rocket Base" (Moraba). In fact, using the HCC framework for the telemetry distribution of sounding rockets allows to bring the HCC basic services into operation with no need to have all the tools necessary for satellite operation already completed to work in the HCC context. We describe the fundamental ideas of HCC along with its status, especially the implementation of the basic services. Some of them have been used for the first time in the context of the Mapheus 12 mission, executed by Moraba on October 21st 2022.