Projects

Overview
Project Title	XML Telemetric and Command Exchange (XTCE) 1.2
Approval	Approved
Document Number	660.0
Charter	2.04 Spacecraft Monitoring and Control Working Group
Document Type	Blue
Description of Document	This is a minor update of the already available blue book to correct obvious mistakes/typos and to improve the schema annotations. The XML Telemetric and Command Exchange (XTCE) is an XML based format aim at facilitating the exchange of spacecraft telemetry and command databases between different organizations and systems during any mission phase. Such a non-proprietary format avoids the need for customized import/export tools, and the validation and new implementation of mission databases, which are often error-prone. The scope of XTCE is limited to the exchange of satellite telemetry and commanding databases. XTCE can be used to exchange a database between spacecraft manufacturers, instrument manufacturers, and different systems of the ground segment. It can also be used as an exchange mechanism between different development teams or between missions, which enhances database re-use.
Applicable Patents	There are no patent issues for this technology that are known by the CCSDS community
Patent Comments
Survey of Similar Standards Documents or Projects Undertaken in Other Bodies and elsewhere in CCSDS
Resources
Book Editor	NASA
Book Editor Resources
Prototype 1	Not Required
Prototype 1 Resources
Prototype 2	Not Required
Prototype 2 Resources
Prototype 3
Prototype 3 Resources
Contribute	CNES, DLR, ESA, UKSA
Monitor Only	ASI, CSA, FSA, INPE, JAXA
Resource Comments

Schedule

Legend for Schedule Milestones = Required for Orange Books = Required for Green Books = Required for Magenta Books = Required for Blue Books Note - Red Books are Draft Blue/Magenta Books Schedule Milestones	Original Completion Date (Date in M/D/YYYY format.)	Comments (Date in M/D/YYYY format.)
Project Approved	1/1/2008
Project Start Date	1/1/2008
Internal WG Review
First Draft Circulated to WG	1/30/2009
First Draft Comments Due	2/15/2009
Second draft circulated to WG	2/15/2009
Second Draft Comments Due	2/15/2009
Final WB Submitted to AD for Further Processing	3/1/2009
External Milestones
Secretariat Document Processing	3/8/2009
First Agency Review	3/23/2009	Requesting simple up/down vote of approved book from the Object Management Group.
RID Resolution	7/5/2009
Secretariat Document Processing 2		Minimal, this is a book from the OMG.
Final Agency Review		Not required.
RID Resolution		RIDS passed to the OMG.
First Prototype Development		Not required on this update.
Second Prototype Development		Not required on this update.
CMC Approval	8/2/2009
Total Time to Complete (in months)	19