Preface

The overall goal as expressed in the CCSDS Charter is the enabling of interoperable spaceflight missions by producing standards in the communications and data systems area. The strategic goals that follow are intended to be unique approaches to better enable that charter

Overall Strategic Goals

The CCSDS Mission Statement is “Advancing technology, with international agreement to use that technology”

In order to enable the next generation of spaceflight missions, CCSDS is aiming at technology evolution and innovation through the process of developing, validating, maintaining and promoting a body of unique space data systems standards, focusing on interoperability of space systems and cross-support between space organizations.

CCSDS shall keep pace with the new requirements of space missions to be flown in the coming decades for scientific, exploration, commercial, and defense purposes, as reflected in relevant roadmaps of participating agencies and inputs and recommendations of other organizations and bodies, like the Interagency Operations Advisory Group (IOAG), International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG) and others.

CCSDS shall keep pace with technology advancements in the industry. While we respect and learn from requirements of current missions, future missions are the primary target of CCSDS standards. CCSDS strives to develop new interoperability capabilities, which will enable a new set of missions, some of which are not even yet envisioned.

Technical Strategic Goals

The strategic technical objectives and goals below are not intended be all-inclusive of ongoing CCSDS work, nor are they grouped by organization or teams within CCSDS; rather, they are intended to be the more strategic and high-level initiatives guiding the current and future direction of the CCSDS as a whole. Grouping of the goals naturally reflects the direction of the CCSDS organization and the common-sense breakdown of technical disciplines

TECHNICAL GOAL 1

To define innovative, secure, widely applicable communication standards and related architectures that facilitate interoperability and cross support and meet the challenges and anticipated needs of the future projects, including:

the use of higher frequency bands (radio frequency and optical);

the achievement of higher data rates and volumes with simultaneously greater spectral efficiency through more capable protocols, modulation, coding, and compression techniques;

the achievement of higher accuracy distance and velocity measurements of near-Earth and deep-space missions;

the use of secure communication protocols and links to protect associated systems and information flows

TECHNICAL GOAL 2

To define a complete suite of interoperable, cross support planning, data delivery, and control service interfaces, implementing an efficient management of the cross support services, providing end-to-end solutions, and meeting mission challenges, including:

integrated mission planning for combined interagency operations taking into account resource needs;

simplification and improved efficiency of cross support service request, delivery, and governance;

call-up of international cross support during spacecraft emergencies;

a complete suite of cross support interfaces supporting forward- and return-data transfers, radiometric data, monitor data, and service control;

cross support file transfer operations such as: radiometric, Delta Differential One-way Ranging (Delta-DOR), off-line data, and space file transfer.

TECHNICAL GOAL 3

To define the full suite of mission operations standard functions and services to enable ground and onboard interoperability at the Application Layer level in support of complex joint collaborative missions and of the standardization of the corresponding ground data systems, in order to meet the needs of future projects, including:

implementation of multi-mission spacecraft and instrument mission operations services;

exchange of mission plans between cooperating agencies;

conjunction assessment, navigation, tracking, and trajectory prediction;

interoperability of robotic systems for cross-agency support

TECHNICAL GOAL 4

To define an integrated set of space internetworking standard services in support of end-to-end communications between applications for the full scope of future joint collaborative missions, covering the entire Solar System, and meeting future project needs, including:

jointly conducted human and robotic operations;

management of space-to-space and direct-to-Earth links as part of the network;

sensor web and other innovative technologies for low Earth orbit (LEO) operations;

application to the space domain of well-established internetworking technologies;

fully automated routing across networks end-to-end;

end-to-end file and message transfer operations.

TECHNICAL GOAL 5

To define reference onboard communications architectures and services supporting efficient data-handling applications and future system evolution, including:

standardized avionics architectures;

advanced technologies, such as wireless communications and software-defined radios;

innovative approaches such as plug-and-play approaches and electronic data sheets;

onboard autonomy capabilities.

TECHNICAL GOAL 6

To define cross-cutting functions and end-to-end system architectures, in support of interoperability and cross support, overarching and underpinning the above goals, and facilitating addressing global challenges, including:

cyber security;

reference system architectures;

information models and architectures;

systems-of-systems interoperability;

CCSDS support services and capabilities.

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Houses the Top Level Content of the Strategic Plan