DAU and Ground Station Set Up - Concept of Operations

Abstract

Many systems in use today to generate the set up information for Data Acquisition Units (DAUs) and for Telemetry Ground Stations are tailored around the requirements for a particular set of supplier's hardware. This makes adding support for a new supplier a costly operation. An attempt is under way to enable development of a system that could be used to set up a DAU and a Telemetry Ground Station with equipment from the currently existing suppliers as well as future suppliers. The goal is to reduce the impact of adding a different supplier's hardware into a system. As the first step in this process it was necessary to agree upon a Concept of Operations that could meet the needs of multiple companies. Once the Concept of Operations was developed then the standards necessary to enable the development of this type of a system could be considered. This paper discusses the Concept of Operations that was developed and the rationale behind the decisions that were made.