An increasing variety of communications services are available to space missions. Yet varying standards between providers hinder adoption due to the complexity of managing many configurations. We present a software framework to automatically establish end-to-end communications during contacts with a provider by configuring spacecraft protocols at the physical, link, and network layers. Underlying protocols and routes are abstracted, allowing the user to simply send data to a destination with the framework ensuring its delivery. We evaluate a full implementation of the framework in laboratory experiments conducted on an emulated communications testbed. These tests demonstrate data delivery across three different services with rapid (<20s) reconfiguration as the spacecraft transitions between providers.


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    Title :

    Automated End-to-End Spacecraft Connectivity Across Diverse Links


    Contributors:
    A. Gannon (author) / D. Brooks (author) / S. Zogheib (author) / E. Schweinsberg (author) / L. Shalkhauser (author) / B. Frantz (author) / M. Koch (author) / R. Dudukovich (author) / J. Downey (author) / J. Briones (author)

    Publication date :

    2024


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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