Ground-Segment Reference Environment Y.Doat, P.Fauré, E.Doelling, R.Santos OPS-GSI, OPS-EC, OPS-GIM 06.02.09

Presentation Content Today’s Environment; Objectives; Building Plans; Communication Infrastructure; Support Facilities; Future Evolution; Project organisation.

Today’s Environment

Current OPS-GS Environment H.32 OPS-GS Reference Station: Ground-Station Test & Validation; Operational Support; RFTC. OPS-GS Laboratories: NDIU integration and validation; SVT Support; PC Support; Integration and rack validation.

Current OPS-GI Environment D.126 Software: Integration and unit validation; System validation; Software technology laboratory (e.g. virtualisation); Build and source repository access. Investigation of problems.

Objectives

Objectives Technical Infrastructure: Network and Security: An innovative end-to-end approach for validation and operational support. Network and Security: A flexible and secure approach for testing and support. Configuration Control & Planning: An environment under control. Quality: Improve the quality without impacting the expertise. Engineering Public Relation Do what you say and Show what you do.

End-to-End Objective Validation from the following perspectives: Functional: validation of provided services (TM, TC, Tracking, Station M&C, …); Performance: mission requirements increase; stability (long duration). Required by OPS-O, triggered by MEX, ROS low bit rate problems; OPS-G, more systematic validation.

Network Objective Simulated operational network. Required by: Performance testing; Error cases: bit error rates, latency, … ; Long duration testing; Isolated from non-operational data traffic; Independent from operational use constraints (e.g. freeze). Required by: OPS-G, end-2-end representative validation.

Security Objective Support from external industry: Internet Access Secure sessions (remote troubleshooting); Established and controlled by the T.O. Internet Access Testing of ESA infrastructure against new developed equipment outside ESOC (e.g. timing system M&C validation); Required by: OPS-G to reduce costs and increase efficiency; ESA security requirements.

Configuration Control Objective Ensure the configuration of the environment: Support various versions of subsystem; Support various configuration of subsystem and end-2-end; Validate hardware integration configuration to be in line with Ground-Station System Integration Standard. Required by: OPS-G, validation of various versions; OPS-O, end-2-end validation of configuration changes, backward compatibility, …

Quality Objective Develop processes associated with: Required by: End-2-End validation; Security; Configuration control; Scheduling of resources (booking capability, visibility to users); Pre-deployment validation. Required by: OPS-G OPS-O.

Public Relation Share OPS-G capability with: Show what engineering is: ESA colleagues; ESOC visitors. Show what engineering is: Engineering processes; Ground-Segment: Ground-Station, Control Centre and Network; Data flows; … Temporary vs Permanent Exhibitions Short term: Poster display (e.g. the ones presented in conferences; Long term: Explain what a Ground-Segment is? Required by: OPS-G.

Building Plans

Current Layout Electronic PC Lab Lab Wiring Office Workshop Equipment Microlab Equipment Pool Reference Station

New layout (Ground) Workshop (Reorganised in 2008) Reference Station OCC Comms Reference Station (RF) Workshop (Reorganised in 2008) Wiring Reference Station (M&C, FEC, NDIU) Meeting Short Term Storage

New layout (Mezzanine) PC Lab Office Electronic Lab Equipment Storage Pool

External view of H Building

3D Representation of the Ground-Segment Reference Environment Area

Communication Infrastructure

Current OPS-GI Integration Environment

Current OPS-GS Reference Station Environment

Network Detailed Topology Pre-OPSLAN Distribution Data Centre Relay LAN Validation OPSLAN Halley+Deneb Network Detailed Topology Corporate DMZ Access WIFI Distribution ESA sites Internet Collaboration Server Access to Internet MCS/NIS Ref. Infrastructure Service Ground-Station Ref. Ground-Station Ref. WAN Emulation MCS/NIS

Support Facilities

Support Facilities Workshop: PC Lab: Electronic Lab: Hardware preparation and integration of racks & Consoles; Wiring of racks and Ground-Segment Reference Environment. PC Lab: Configuration of deployed PCs; Support of Linux, Windows, QNX. Electronic Lab: Embedded hardware support (design & production).

Future Evolution

Future Evolution End-to-end including a ground-station: Possibility to use Vil4 for limited capability (e.g. M&C, Telemetry and Tracking). End-to-end including MCS: Possibility to configure for dedicated MCS. Evolution for SSA reference Environment.

Project

ESOC Project Team Y.Doat OPS-GSI P.Fauré OPS-ECS R.Santos OPS-GIM Team W.Nzoubou OPS-ECS E.Doelling OPS-ECT

Planning 1st semester 2009: Cleaning of area; (After D/OPS approval) 1st semester 2009: Cleaning of area; 2nd semester 2009 & 1st semester 2010: Start of building work; Network architecture; Reorganisation.

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