Overview

Project Title

NASA core Flight System (cFS) as a CCSDS Onboard Reference Architecture

Approval

Approved

Document Number

Charter

4.02 Application Support Services Working Group

Document Type

Orange

Description of Document

This experimental report provides an overview of NASA’s cFS software architecture and the integration and use of CCSDS standards to enhance interoperability, system commonality. It shall cover the following topics: 1. Overview of NASA’s cFS software architecture and tool chains. 2. Use of CCSDS standards in the architecture, development tools, and ground systems. 3. Benefits of applied standards to the development, maintenance and operations of spacecraft systems.

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

In parallel there is work planned on a Orange book covering the SAVIOR and CAST architectures.

Resources

Book Editor

NASA

Book Editor Resources

4 mm

Prototype 1

Not Required

Prototype 1 Resources

Prototype 2

Not Required

Prototype 2 Resources

Prototype 3

Prototype 3 Resources

Contribute

Monitor Only

CNSA, ESA, NASA

Resource Comments

The schedule for this book is longer due to resource availability. This should not affect total funding other than spanning 2 NASA fiscal years .

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.)
Estimated Completion Date
(Date in M/D/YYYY format.)
Actual Completion Date
(Date in M/D/YYYY format.)
Comments
(Date in M/D/YYYY format.)
Project ApprovedOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet10/11/201610/11/2016
Project Start DateOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet10/11/201610/1/202010/1/2020Work on the book has started
Internal WG Review
First Draft Circulated to WGOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet8/8/20179/10/2023
First Draft Comments DueOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet9/26/201710/1/2023Comment time extended due to summer holidays
Second draft circulated to WGOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet10/31/201710/15/2023Will discuss book at the Fall meeting
Second Draft Comments DueOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet12/5/201710/30/2023
Final WB Submitted to AD for Further ProcessingOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet1/9/201811/15/2023
External Milestones
Secretariat Document ProcessingOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet1/15/2024
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 DevelopmentOrange BulletBlue Bullet
Second Prototype DevelopmentBlue Bullet
CMC ApprovalOrange BulletGreen BulletMagenta BulletBlue Bullet5/15/20182/15/2024
Total Time to Complete
(in months)
19
40
Attachments
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Created at 7/1/2015 2:42 AM by Suess Martin
Last modified at 5/15/2023 6:42 AM by Jonathan Wilmot