November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
...and specifications of images from satellites were not coherent, so that the users had to employ a range of different software and interpretation skills for using satellite images. Japan’s Mount Fuji captured by Axelspace’s Hodoyoshi-1 micro satellite...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... testing has also supported development and certification of the new state-of-the-art engine controllers and software. The engine controllers for the RS-25 engines for first integrated flight have been tested and installed...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... memory images for patching from a file). This allows decoupling of data transfers and operations, e.g. for on-board software updates. The file-based operations concept is currently being implemented in ESA’s generic mission control system SCOS...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
.... To reach the levels of reliability needed for all the different systems, including the flight computer and software, hundreds of tests for verification and validation (V&V) are carried out. We achieved 120 successful docking tests with...
