Department 04 · 5 technologies
System Architecture & Standards
The flight software, computing hardware, networks and standards that autonomous spacecraft are built on.
Technologies in this department
FSW
Flight Software Autonomy
The onboard software architecture that hosts autonomous functions and decision logic.
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LEVELS
Spacecraft Autonomy Levels
Frameworks, such as ECSS-E-ST-70-11C, that classify how much a spacecraft can do without ground control.
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CFS
Core Flight System (cFS)
NASA's open-source, reusable framework for spacecraft flight software.
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TTETHERNET
Time-Triggered Ethernet
Deterministic Ethernet that guarantees timing for safety-critical traffic on a shared network.
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EDGE
Edge Computing in Space
Processing data on board instead of sending everything back to Earth for analysis.
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