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A method to develop mission critical data processing systems for satellite based instruments. The spinning mode case

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2020-04-08 v1 Software Engineering

Abstract

Modern satellite based experiments are often very complex real-time systems, composed by flight and ground segments, that have challenging resource related constraints, in terms of size, weight, power, requirements for real-time response, fault tolerance, and specialized input/output hardware-software, and they must be certified to high levels of assurance. Hardware-software data processing systems have to be responsive to system degradation and to changes in the data acquisition modes, and actions have to be taken to change the organization of the mission operations. A big research & develop effort in a team composed by scientists and technologists can lead to produce software systems able to optimize the hardware to reach very high levels of performance or to pull degraded hardware to maintain satisfactory features. We'll show real-life examples describing a system, processing the data of a X-Ray detector on satellite-based mission in spinning mode.

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@article{arxiv.1102.2730,
  title  = {A method to develop mission critical data processing systems for satellite based instruments. The spinning mode case},
  author = {Francesco Lazzarotto and Sergio Fabiani and Enrico Costa and Ettore Del Monte and Giuseppe Di Persio and Immacolata Donnarumma and Yuri Evangelista and Marco Feroci and Luigi Pacciani and Alda Rubini and Paolo Soffitta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.2730},
  year   = {2020}
}

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proceedings of the COSPAR 2010 assembly, Bremen, Germany

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