CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DESIGN OF FUTURE ON-BOARD DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR SCIENTIFIC SPACE-CRAFT EXPERIMENTS

Abstract

Requirements for programmable dataprocessors are discussed in this paper. This is done based on the experience of the development of electronic hard-wired modules for a series of scientific space-craft experiments. The operation and the realisation of three characteristic experiments with the present technology is described. Flow diagrams are shown for cornputer control and data-processing for these experiments. From the flow diagrams some preliminary requirements for general usable programmable data processors are derived and means are shown how the requirements can be implemented.