Projects

Overview
Project Title	Mission Operations - Message Abstraction Layer (MAL) - B-3
Approval	Approved
Document Number	521.0
Charter	2.04 Spacecraft Monitoring and Control Working Group
Document Type	Blue
Description of Document	The SM&C WG has thoroughly and critically reviewed the underlying concepts of the MO Framework and the M&C services. This effort is labeled as MO 2.0. All participating agencies have provided input and points for improvement. The focus has been on simplification and increasing the potential for adoption of the SM&C standards. MAL being the core of the MO framework, the WG has concluded the review of the current MAL concepts and agreed on a set of changes as the as the first step in this context. This project is for implementing the changes to MAL that have been agreed by all representatives of the agencies participating to the SM&C WG.
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	This project is the update of an already published Blue Book.
Resources
Book Editor	ESA
Book Editor Resources	1 mm
Prototype 1	ESA
Prototype 1 Resources	1 mm
Prototype 2	CNES
Prototype 2 Resources	1 mm
Prototype 3
Prototype 3 Resources
Contribute	DLR, NASA
Monitor Only	FSA, JAXA
Resource Comments	ESA and CNES have already committed the resources. The update of the book has started and work on prototyping will follow.

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	10/31/2021
Project Start Date	12/1/2021
Internal WG Review
First Draft Circulated to WG	2/28/2022
First Draft Comments Due	3/31/2022
Second draft circulated to WG
Second Draft Comments Due
Final WB Submitted to AD for Further Processing	4/28/2022
External Milestones
Secretariat Document Processing
First Agency Review
RID Resolution
Secretariat Document Processing 2
Final Agency Review
RID Resolution
First Prototype Development	10/15/2022
Second Prototype Development	10/15/2022
CMC Approval	12/31/2022
Total Time to Complete (in months)	13