March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
...he allowed ESOC to participate more directly in the onboard software test campaign on the spacecraft engineering model. Through a number..., come together twice a week and use a software simulator go through all operations, scenarios and flight ...
January 2020
Apollo girl - camaraderie and discrimination in the Apollo era
... to broaden the scope of my duties, I gravitated toward the operations end, so that I could better understand how the software worked in an operational environment: in other words, did it work the way it was intended and, more importantly, how...
October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
... ‘virtualise’ itself to enter this new Cloud era – in other words, it must move from a dependence on physical hardware to a software-based solution. It must also embrace standards from the telecoms provider (telco) world. This transformation will...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
...In particular, the new version of the spacecraft’s onboard software, already prepared for an in-flight upload in July 2003... and healthy after three years of flight. However, the onboard software had to be configured such that the lack of sunlight on ...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... that the systems engineers and developers fully appreciate the importance of unambiguous protocol design and appropriate software implementation of the protocols used for automation between nodes and for monitoring ground segments. If protocols are...
08 July 2020
NASA increases recommendations required by Boeing for Starliner flight
...and Boeing have been incrementally changing the software, testing the software and adding resources when required, said Steve... program, in a call with reporters yesterday. Reviewing software procedures however appears to have been a sticking point for...
