A Reusable Spacecraft Command and Telemetry Storage Framework
Open Access
- Author:
- Peterson-Burch, Shea Donald Forrest
- Graduate Program:
- Aerospace Engineering
- Degree:
- Master of Science
- Document Type:
- Master Thesis
- Date of Defense:
- None
- Committee Members:
- Lyle Norman Long, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lyle Norman Long, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor - Keywords:
- spacecraft
commands
telemetry
command and telemetry database - Abstract:
- The problem of successfully managing the ever increasing quantity of spacecraft commands and telemetry involved in today’s typical spacecraft missions demands building a standardized spacecraft command and telemetry storage framework that can be readily reused from mission to mission and that will allow for a broad range of applications, users, and data flow processes without requiring costly customizations. This reusable framework requires a number of key components – a flexible storage mechanism that can be adapted to a variety of mission configurations, an easy and robust mechanism for importing and modifying data, monitoring and reporting functionality that ensures data integrity and alerts the user to problems, an easy and flexible means of generating reports and transmitting information, and a means to allow for a distributed, multi-user, multi-role environment typical of most working environments. The work described here address two of the traditional problem areas associated with the construction of such a reusable command and telemetry framework: a storage mechanism that is flexible enough to handle multiple configurations as well as ongoing changes to that configuration and secondly, an import process, both bulk and incremental, that is constructed for ease of human and software use while simultaneously enforcing data integrity. Solutions are presented and subsequently implemented in Java, XML, and MySQL.