FROM SIMULATIONS TO OPERATIONS:DEVELOPMENTS IN TEST AND VERIFICATION EQUIPMENT FOR SPACECRAFT

摘要

Supported by Research and Development programs of the European Space Agency (ESA), simulation and test tools arernbeing developed to improve the life cycle cost efficiency of spacecraft development. Standardisation and rationalisation,rnuse of (C)OTS products, reuse of both software and hardware are some of the lines along which schedule optimisationrnand cost reduction is pursued.rnBased on experience with the development, production and use of test equipment for scientific satellites such as XMMNewtonrnand INTEGRAL, the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR is developing a next generation of Test andrnVerification Equipment (TVE) for spacecraft avionics systems, such as Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystems (AOCS).rnStarting points for these developments are the application of existing relevant technologies, modularity, scalability,rncommonality and reuse of tools, equipment and results during the various phases of the spacecraft life cycle.rnThis paper will focus on the interface between TVE and ESA's latest generation Spacecraft Control & OperationrnSystem, SCOS-2000, as important element of the next generation TVE to enable reuse of technologies from simulationsrnto flight operations.