INTEGRAL mission control system (IMCS): technology and integrated solutions for supporting a complex scientific mission

Author

Di Girolamo, Gianpiero ; Maldari, Paolo ; Croce, Francesco ; Alberti, Michela

Author_Institution

Directorate of Tech. & Oper. Support, Eur. Space Agency, Darmstadt, Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

161

Abstract

The INTEGRAL mission is concerned with the fine spectroscopy and fine imaging of celestial gamma-ray sources with concurrent source monitoring in the X-ray and optical energy ranges. The mission will be controlled from the INTEGRAL Mission Operation Centre (MOC) at ESOC in Darmstadt, based on scientific utilisation planning inputs provided by the INTEGRAL Science Operation Centre (ISOC) located at ESTEC (Nordwijk). The satellite science data will be processed at INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC) in Versoix. This paper describes the IMCS components from the design and integration point of view. It aims to provide readers with an understanding of how a combination of developed software systems (SCOS-2000 infrastructure) complemented by specific additional development and by the adoption of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products is best suited to fulfil the operational user requirements of a complex and demanding real-time critical system

Keywords

X-ray spectroscopy; aerospace control; artificial satellites; gamma-ray sources (astronomical); physical instrumentation control; real-time systems; space research; visible spectroscopy; IMCS; INTEGRAL Mission Operation Centre; INTEGRAL Science Data Centre; INTEGRAL Science Operation Centre; INTEGRAL mission control system; ISDC; ISOC; MOC; SCOS-2000 infrastructure; X-ray energy range; celestial gamma-ray sources; complex scientific mission; concurrent source monitoring; fine imaging; fine spectroscopy; optical energy range; real-time critical system; satellite science data; software systems; Control systems; Instruments; Monitoring; Payloads; Process planning; Satellites; Space technology; Spectroscopy; Telecommunications; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Euromicro Conference, 2001. Proceedings. 27th

Conference_Location

Warsaw

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1236-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURMIC.2001.952450

Filename

952450