Flight Software Development for the CHEOPS Instrument with the CORDET Framework

Author(s)

V. Cechticky, Roland Ottensamer, A. Pasetti

Abstract

CHEOPS is an ESA S-class mission dedicated to the precise measurement of radii of already known exoplanets using ultra-high precision photometry. The instrument flight software controlling the instrument and handling the science data is developed by the University of Vienna using the CORDET Framework offered by P&P Software GmbH. The CORDET Framework provides a generic software infrastructure for PUS-based applications. This paper describes how the framework is used for the CHEOPS application software to provide a consistent solution for to the communication and control services, event handling and FDIR procedures. This approach is innovative in four respects: (a) it is a true third-party reuse; (b) re-use is done at specification, validation and code level; (c) the re-usable assets and their qualification data package are entirely open-source; (d) re-use is based on call-back with the application developer providing functions which are called by the reusable architecture.

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Organisation(s)

Department of Astrophysics

External organisation(s)

P&P Software GmbH, High Tech Center, Tägerwilen, 8274, Switzerland

Volume

732

Publication date

09-2015

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Aerospace Engineering, Space and Planetary Science

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/flight-software-development-for-the-cheops-instrument-with-the-cordet-framework(45884609-e7dc-4e0f-bce6-73bad8178c0b).html