Similar to other missions, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory's Command and Data Handling (C&DH) subsystem is critical for operations of the spacecraft. The onboard C&DH system comprises of two fully redundant boxes - a primary and a cold backup. Within each box, amongst other components, is a Single Board Computer (SBC) that hosts the flight software (FSW) system. In the event of an SBC reset, the Flight Operations Team (FOT) is poised with a lengthy task of restoring the SBC to nominal configuration. Due to the complexity of the C&DH system, this may take many days at a time to complete. The spacecraft's FSW applications are located in Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM) and are copied into Random Access Memory (RAM) upon SBC initialization/reset. Each SBC has two banks of EEPROM, with each bank containing a copy of the FSW. Since launch, there have been many configuration changes to tables and applications that have been loaded into just RAM. Unfortunately, these changes are vulnerable to being wiped during a SBC initialization/reset, when the RAM is overwritten by the EEPROM. Although the EEPROM loads the default FSW configurations, the process to command non-default individual table and application changes is very cumbersome and time consuming. This consequentially increases the time until the spacecraft is back into nominal Mission Science Mode (MSM) drastically. The GPM Power-On Reset (POR) Expedited Recovery Process (PERP) Design introduces a method of consolidating commands into a single file load which the SBC can process independently of the ground - decreasing recovery time, the level of TDRS support reliance, and human error. This tested design can be implemented across many other missions that utilize a similar core Flight Executive (cFE) platform; hence providing an easy-to-follow, safe, and efficient process that can be applied across the board.


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    Titel :

    GPM Mission's Best Practices: PERP


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2018) ; 2018 ; Marseille, France


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    28.05.2018


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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