Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) Central Facility: a new Mission Control System Architecture

摘要

EUMETSAT's MSG Central Facility (CF), currently under development by Science Systems, provides an integrated environment for the planning, scheduling, control and monitoring of the entire MSG mission. Implemented in a Windows NT environment, hosted on Digital Alpha servers and Intel PC workstations, the CF system makes use of new technologies. It supports packetised TM/TC and provides automated operations support at both Schedule (Timeline) and Procedure levels. A local operations history archive supports long term data storage, hosted on a large RAID array and off-line tape jukebox. The archive itself is based on ORACLE Enterprise Server and includes a parameter change based processed telemetry history. Event driven real-time data distribution is based on the CORBA standard. Operations preparation and configuration control tools are fully integrated within the CF system.