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5 Data Standards Management
Pages 38-44

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From page 38...
... dards for the end-to-end transmission, handling, and storage Standards permit mass production, thereby reducing both of all data associated with space operations: scientific data production and ownership costs, and they facilitate expanoriginating on spacecraft, uplink and downlink data needed sion of markets, permitting products developed for one marto conduct associated operations, tracking data, and even ket to be sold elsewhere. There are also motivations beyond voice communications with astronauts.
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From page 39...
... national data communications standards required to carry out commercial space industry, and others in developing space NASA missions, including NASA participation in interna- data standards is evidence that NASA's data standards work tional missions."3 is appropriately recognized and is effective. This program By its basic nature, the scope of this program element element leverages other work done in the U.S.
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From page 40...
... ing Group and the Management Council occurs in this e The benefits and costs of increasing interoperability forum. with military space systems, commercial space systems, and The committee judged the standards management prothe systems of foreign space agencies seem properly consid- gram element planning to be quite well crafted, as evidenced ered, as evidenced by the direct involvement in ongoing stan- by the program element's long history of demonstrated sucdards development activities.
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From page 41...
... NASA/GSFC SBIRS-High Space Base Infrared System 2006 DOD New Horizon Pluto-Kuiper belt mission 2006 NASA/APL Dawn Meteorite Explorer 2006 JPL, UCLA THEMIS 5 Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms 2006 NASA/SSL THEMIS 4 Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms 2006 NASA/SSL THEMIS 3 Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms 2006 NASA/SSL THEMIS 2 Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms 2006 NASA/SSL THEMIS 1 Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms 2006 NASA/SSL Solar-B 2006 ISAS GLAST Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope 2006 NASA COROT Convection Rotation a Transits planetaires (Convection Rotation and Planetary Transits) 2006 CNES INMARSAT 4F 3 International Maritime Satellite 4F3 2006 INMARSAT GOCE Gravity Field and Steady State Ocean Circulation Explorer 2006 ESA ATV-3 Automated Transfer Vehicle 3 2006 ESA CRM Coral Reef Mission 2006 PCRF, MIT/CSR RascomStar-Qaf 1 Telecommunications 2006 (June)
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From page 42...
... SDO Solar Dynamic Observatory 2007 NASA/GSFC Kepler Satellite for the search of Earth-size and smaller planets 2007 NASA Ames SMOS Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity 2007 ESA/CNES/SNP Megha-Tropiques Convective systems, water cycle, and energy budget in the 2007 CNES/ISRO tropical atmosphere Solar Probe 2007 NASA/JPL Mars Premier Orbiter 2007 CNES ACCESS Advance Cosmic Ray Composition Experiment for the Space Station 2007 NASA/GSFC ATV-4 Automated Transfer Vehicle 4 2007 ESA HTV-01 H-II Transfer Vehicle 2007 JAXA HTV-DM H-II Transfer Vehicle Demonstration Flight Model 2007 JAXA Phoenix Study Mars Polar Region 2007 NASA COSMO-SkyMed4 Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean Basin Observation 2007 ASI THEOS Thai Earth Observation System 2007 GISTDA Orbview-5 Commercial remote sensing satellite 2007 ORBIMAGE Astra-1M Telecommunication Satellite 2008 ESA LRO Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter 2008 NASA GSFC ZX 9 (Chinasat) Telecommunications Satellite 2008 Spirale 2 Early Detection System 2008 CNES Spirale 1 Early Detection System 2008 CNES Eddington L2 Astroseismology Mission 2008 (June)
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From page 43...
... It also pro with use of CCSDS standards mainly because much of the CCSDS's vides support for handling compressed data in a way that recognizes the work addresses the challenges of deep-space links such as poor quality need to handle compression block boundaries to support error contain of service and other problems associated with sending radio frequency ment. Discussions are in progress to identify ways to accommodate all of (RF)
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From page 44...
... Managers executing plans for the data standards pro- Finding: It appears that the expected services are being sucgram have both an understanding of the objectives and pro- cessfully provided by NASA's space data standards managecesses for space data handling, and an acceptable ability for ment program element, as evidenced by the continuing derisk10 management, as demonstrated by their continuing suc- velopment of standards that are being adopted by space cess in delivering standards in a timely manner and within activities around the world. The relatively modest funding available resources.
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  • space communications
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  • consultative committee
  • time history
  • macroscale interactions
  • standards development
  • link layer

  • space link
  • space operations
  • data handling
  • automated transfer
  • operating plan

  • mediterranean basin
  • british ministry
  • basin observation
  • nasa space
  • major space

  • deep space
  • commercial space
  • foreign space
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