PACKET TELEMETRY AND PACKET TELECOMMAND: THE NEW GENERATION OF SPACECRAFT DATA HANDLING TECHNIQUES
International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 24-27, 1983 / Sheraton-Harbor Island Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California === During twenty-five years of space exploration by NASA, the formats and protocols used within the flow of spacecraft telemetry and telecommand data...
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International Foundation for Telemetering
1983
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/612856 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/612856 |
Summary: | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 24-27, 1983 / Sheraton-Harbor Island Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California === During twenty-five years of space exploration by NASA, the formats and protocols used
within the flow of spacecraft telemetry and telecommand data have usually been
customized from mission-to-mission. Consequently, considerable resources are often
expended by each project in redesigning and testing significant elements of the spacecraft
and ground network hardware and software. This high degree of customization tends to
inhibit automation of the data handling processes, thus raising costs and potentially
reducing reliability.
The concepts of standardized “Packet Telemetry” and “Packet Telecommand” are
emerging as viable alternatives to the constant cycle of redesign. Within each concept,
autonomous “packets” of data are created within space or ground application processes,
using standard formatting techniques. These packets are then switched end-to-end through
the space data network to their destination application processes, using standard transfer
protocols. As a result the intermediate data networks may be designed to be completely
mission-independent, thus facilitating a high degree of automation and interoperability.
The Packet Telemetry protocols are currently mature and are in a final review cycle; the
Packet Telecommand protocols are more developmental, but essentially form symmetrical
“mirror-images” of the telemetry formats. This paper reviews both sets of standard
protocols. |
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