Messenger: Flight Software Design for a Deep Space Mission

Author

Artis, David A. ; Heggestad, Brian K. ; Krupiarz, Christopher J. ; Mirantes, M. Annette ; Reid, J. Doug

Author_Institution

Johns Hopkins Univ., Hopkins

fYear

2007

fDate

3-10 March 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) is a NASA Discovery mission to study the planet Mercury. Launched in August 2004, it will perform one more flyby of Venus and three flybys of Mercury, followed by Mercury orbit insertion in 2011 for a one-year science-gathering mission. Throughout the mission, MESSENGER will use seven instruments to collect data about key characteristics of the planet to understand Mercury and the formation of the inner solar system.

Keywords

Mercury (planet); aerospace computing; aerospace control; control engineering computing; space vehicles; Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems; MESSENGER guidance and control software; NASA Discovery mission; configurable telemetry storage; deep space mission; file delivery protocol; flight software design; onboard file system; planet Mercury; spacecraft attitude; system software architecture; Bandwidth; Earth; Instruments; Mercury (planets); Planets; Software design; Space missions; Space technology; Space vehicles; Venus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0524-6

Electronic_ISBN

1095-323X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2007.352747

Filename

4161301