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Model-driven engineering for low-code ground support equipment configuration and automatic test procedures definition

Carrasco, Alberto; Martínez, Agustín; Sánchez, Sebastián +4 more

Space domain systems must go through different types of ground testing. For system-level black-box functional testing, ground support equipment is built ad hoc, customized for each different mission. Building any of this specific equipment involves considerable engineering effort that can be diluted using techniques that allow reusing configuratio…

Solar Orbiter fine pointing Mode improvement in flight: Challenges and achievements

Cantiello, Ilario; Chapman, Patrick; Monroig, Guillaume +2 more

ESA Solar Orbiter was launched from Cape Canaveral in collaboration with NASA on the February 10, 2020 to start its journey around the Sun, with the commissioning phase ending in April 2020. After commissioning, ESA set a tighter pointing requirement goal to further improve the performance in Fine Pointing Mode, in preparation of the upcoming star…

In-flight verification of the engineering design data for the Energetic Particle Detector on board the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter

Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert F.; Elftmann, Robert; Rodríguez-Pacheco, Javier +25 more

This work presents an overview of the in-flight engineering data of the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) instrument suite during its first year of operation. EPD is part of the in-situ scientific payload of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission which was launched in February 2020. After completion of its commissioning phase, Solar Orbiter started it…

Model-driven environment for configuration control and deployment of on-board satellite software

Carrasco, Alberto; Martínez, Agustín; Sánchez, Sebastián +3 more

This paper describes a model-driven environment for configuration control and deployment of on-board satellite software. The solution enables platform-aware software development through the use of modelling artefacts provided by a framework called MICOBS. The paper describes the proposed platform model, as well as the supporting models needed to c…

Structural shock verification by numerical analysis of the EPD payload units on board Solar Orbiter spacecraft

Ravanbakhsh, Ali; García-Pérez, Andrés; Sorribes-Palmer, Félix +1 more

Electronic components can be seriously damaged during the launch of spacecraft due to the intense shock loads, which are generated by the launch operations such as the separations of the launcher stages and the release of the spacecraft. A shock verification program should be carried out in the development phase of space instruments to guarantee t…