Implementation of CCSDS Mission Operations Services at the German Space Operations Center

Abstract

The CCSDS Mission Operations framework defined by the CCSDS Spacecraft Monitor & Control working group aims to provide a reusable, interoperable and distributed mission operations system based on a service-oriented architecture paradigm. Services are defined in terms of an abstract model called the “Message Abstraction Layer”, which is cast to a concrete technology by separately defined bindings. This work is concerned with prototype implementation of binding to the Space Packet Protocol. Challenges and solutions are outlined as well as next steps in terms of testing to prove interoperability. A second prototype implementing a core set of services – the Monitor and Control services – is discussed briefly, as well as a possible way of transition towards a Mission Operations framework based infrastructure at the German Space Operations Center GSOC. The work is put into context by pointing out how benefits for missions arise from the framework and its design.