Overview

Project Title

Launch Data Message

Approval

Approved

Document Number

507.1

Charter

2.02 Navigation Working Group

Document Type

Blue

Description of Document

This project, currently a "Draft Project" was originally proposed in 2016, but it was never submitted for CMC Approval given other higher priority work being conducted in the Navigation Working Group. See CCSDS-required Concept Paper at https://cwe.ccsds.org/moims/docs/MOIMS-NAV/Draft%20Documents/Concept%20Papers/LDM/Launch_Data_Message-20221216.pdf Extensive coordination activities and analyses are required to prepare for and conduct successful spacecraft launch and early orbit sequences. The owners, operators and analysts of the launchers, upper stages, and deployed satellites often span a diverse international and organizational space community. Space lift providers commonly launch and deploy many satellites in a single launch. This is especially driven by nanosatellite and CubeSat programs, with upcoming launches anticipated to deploy as many as 100 multi-national spacecraft. Each entity may have different methods for coordination, launch data content, spacecraft commissioning and operation. This can yield a lack of coordination between pertinent space organizations, extensive workload in converting non-standard launch data formats, and the potential for data misinterpretation and operational errors. The Launch Data Message serves to improve all data exchange, coordination and inter-organizational aspects of both domestic and international launches, thereby reducing operations costs, increasing overall efficiency and minimizing operational risk.

Applicable Patents

There are no patent issues for this technology that are known by the CCSDS community

Patent Comments

N/A

Survey of Similar Standards
Documents or Projects
Undertaken in Other Bodies
and elsewhere in CCSDS

A survey of available standards conducted by the US National Institute for Standards and Technology turned up nothing like the Concept for the Launch Data Message. The proposal is an aggregate of a number of currently available launch information sharing vehicles, but they are not in one centralized message. This message will aggregate and harmonize the various existing resources.

Resources

Book Editor

NASA

Book Editor Resources

The prospective Book Editor estimates 8 man months +/-1 man month.

Prototype 1

NASA

Prototype 1 Resources

8 man months +/- 1 man month. Note that the first prototype will be prepared by the document proposer, an employee of COMSPOC Corporation, an American company headquartered in Exton, PA.

Prototype 2

UKSA

Prototype 2 Resources

8 man months +/- 1 man month. Note that the second prototype will be prepared by U.K. Space Agency (Josh Brayford, Head of Space Standards at UKSA) has now committed to serving as the second prototyper for the LDM. Modified 06/01/2023 while review is in progress based on rejection by CNES.

Prototype 3

Prototype 3 Resources

Contribute

DLR, ESA, JAXA, NASA, UKSA

Monitor Only

Resource Comments

Schedule

Legend for Schedule Milestones
Orange Bullet = Required for Orange Books
Green Bullet = Required for Green Books
Magenta Bullet = Required for Magenta Books
Blue Bullet = Required for Blue Books
Note - Red Books are Draft Blue/Magenta Books

Schedule Milestones
Orange BookGreen BookMagenta BookBlue Book
Original Completion Date
(Date in M/D/YYYY format.)
Comments
(Date in M/D/YYYY format.)
Project ApprovedOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet1/2/2018CMC-P-2023-05-003
Project Start DateOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet1/2/2018
Internal WG Review
First Draft Circulated to WGOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet
First Draft Comments DueOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet
Second draft circulated to WGOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet
Second Draft Comments DueOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet
Final WB Submitted to AD for Further ProcessingOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet
External Milestones
Secretariat Document ProcessingOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet
First Agency ReviewMagenta BulletBlue Bullet
RID ResolutionMagenta BulletBlue Bullet
Secretariat Document Processing 2Magenta BulletBlue Bullet
Final Agency ReviewMagenta BulletBlue Bullet
RID ResolutionMagenta BulletBlue Bullet
First Prototype DevelopmentBlue Bullet
Second Prototype DevelopmentBlue Bullet
CMC ApprovalOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet4/30/2021
Total Time to Complete
(in months)
39
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Created at 2/15/2016 10:07 AM by Berry David
Last modified at 1/11/2024 3:42 PM by Tom Gannett