As part of the 'Faster, Better, Cheaper' paradigm for NASA missions, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is developing a Flight System Testbed for prototyping and early integration of future planetary missions. This paper describes the development of a set of reusable, extendible spacecraft flight software to be used as a basis for prototypes in the testbed. This effort has focused on identification and implementation of functions which are common across multiple missions. This effort has also developed an intertask messaging system which supports modification of existing functions, additions of new functions, and porting to various computation and input/output (I/O) architectures. This paper also identifies a number of other JPL activities which support standardization and reusability of planetary spacecraft designs.


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    Title :

    Reusable, extendible flight software for a planetary spacecraft prototype testbed


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    Publication date :

    1995-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English