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JPL Flight Systems Testbed
Pluto Fast Fly-by (PFF)
Testbed. Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has contracted to ICS (October
1994) to establish a flight software testbed control system architecture
for the Pluto Fast Flyby mission. The testbed will also be used as an example
for future JPL spacecraft. The testbed architecture is based around the
Mips R3000 processor and the VxWorks real-time executive. The host workstations
are Sun SPARCstations. Eventually, SCL will be ported to a RAD-6000 (rad-hard
RS/6000) for the mission. The work performed by ICS has resulted in several
copies of SCL being purchased and involvement of the Naval
Research Lab's Clementine software lead.
The University
of Colorado (CU), Colorado Space Grant Consortium has developed a concept
for ground control operations for the Pluto Program. The students at CU
have integrated a multi-workstation control center using the SCL system
architecture. The Concept of Operations is to have CU students man the
control center and task the spacecraft. Surf through the CU web pages to
get a glimpse of their work. The students have also developed web pages
as a teaching tool for SCL.
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