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CCSDS XML Telemetric and Command Exchange (XTCE)

Dan Smith - Ronald Jones - Kevin Rice(NASA/GSFC)

March 2015

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Agenda

XTCE Status XTCE Tailoring Guides XTCE 1.1 to 1.2 Status Beyond 1.2 CCSDS SM&C Actions

• 140204-01:Validate if MO data model for parameter service fits with XTCE

Other XTCE Efforts

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XTCE Tailoring Guides

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OMG XTCE 1.1 Document Tree

Specification(document, template)

SpecificationXTCE 1.1

Specification

(March 2008)

XTCE

USA GovSat

Conformance Profile

(November 2014)

XTCE 1.1

Associated

Schema File

(November 2006)

Intend to publish revision to GovSat in parallel with XTCE 1.2

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CCSDS XTCE 1.1 Document Tree

Yellow Book ?? (OMG specification)

SANA Registry ?? (OMG rules table)

Blue Book

Green Book

XTCE 1.1

Informational Report CCSDS 660.0-G-1

(July 2006)

Update to 1.2

XTCE 1.1

Recommended Standard

CCSDS 660.0-B-1

(October 2007)

XTCE

USA GOVSAT

Conformance Profile

(Nov 2014)

XTCE

XTCE-CC

Draft ICD

(2015)

Key: Red outlined box = CCSDS Approved Document Red dashed box = CCSDS/OMG document in work

XTCE 1.1 Element Description Report

CCSDS 660.1-G-1

(May2012)

Update to 1.2

Host XTCE Tailoring Guides on both OMG & CCSDS Websites

XTCE 1.2 Recommended

Standard CCSDS 660.0-B-2 Replace XTCE 1.1

(2015)

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XTCE 1.1 to 1.2 Status

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OMG XTCE 1.1 to 1.2 – RTF Schedule

RTF schedule ✔ June 2014 – draft “Change Form” ✔ September 2014 – draft issues to moims-sc@mailman.ccsds.org ✔ September 2014 – attended Space Domain Task Force (SDTF)

Quarterly Meeting (NASA Goddard, NASA JPL, Industry) ✔ October 2014 – Issues finalized (included 16 ESA, 5 CNES) May 2015 (was Nov 2014) - submit Change Form to Architecture

Board (AB) – slipped due to submitters work load June 2015 (was Dec 2014) – approved by AB July 2015 publish

Issues Finalized October 2014 --> Paperwork --> OMG AB Approve June 2015

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OMG XTCE 1.1 to 1.2 – Agreements with CCSDS

✔ Distributed accepted issues by spreadsheet to CCSDS SM&C and interested parties

Included ESA and CNES issues

CCSDS agreement – OMG XTCE 1.2 book will be sent out for acceptance and for comment. 

Acceptance - Would like to accept exactly OMG Book, with CCSDS frontal matter included, replaces current CCSDS XTCE 1.1 Blue Book which is due for update.

Comments - All comments received during the CCSDS review will be submitted to OMG for consideration in next XTCE release.

Schedule - CCSDS incorporate all XTCE 1.2 changes Submit OMG XTCE 1.2 Specification to become Blue Book, replaces XTCE 1.1

Submit XTCE Green Book Pink Sheet showing updates from 1.1 to 1.2

Submit Tailoring Guides (USA, ESA, CNES)

Books - Yellow Book, Magenta Book, SANA Registry - ??? Rules Tables (spreadsheet) - SANA Registry - ???

XTCE 1.2 Blue Book replaces XTCE 1.1 Blue Book

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OMG Beyond XTCE 1.2

Process:

A new RTF would be formed to address new issues and deferred issues from XTCE 1.2

Depends on community interest, but do not want to wait another 7 years

Significant Changes to XTCE 1.x (i.e. “XTCE 2.0”) The process would start from scratch again as it re-opens the standard completely There would be a new RFP issued first, followed by a FTF Include all comments received during the CCSDS review of XTCE 1.2

Do Not Wait 7 Years

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MO M&C Services and XTCE Comparison

140204-01:Validate if MO data model for directives fits with XTCE

Object Types/Directives - ACTION, PARAMETER, ALERT, CHECK, STATISTICS, AGGREGATION, CONVERSION, GROUP

Goal is to have specific MO M&C Service Tables map to XTCE syntax Kevin Rice and Sam Cooper worked together to perform mapping Mapping documented in “SMCtoXTCE_V5.2.docx”

Analysis Core issue: XTCE is designed to describe the space to ground interface (commands,

telemetry packets)• Not a general messaging syntax, but mission ops database language• XTCE describes the binary representation of packets• Not clear to us that its applicable to defining MO M&C Services directives• We believe M&C Service Message need specific schemas

Recommend - Message Specific Schemas instead of XTCE (define in CCSDS Book)

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Example - ACTION MO Service Message in XTCE

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Example - ACTION MO Service Message in XTCEContinued

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Other XTCE Efforts

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Other XTCE work at Goddard

Conversion Tool Developed ASIST (GOTS T&C) to XTCE XTCE to ITOS (GOTS T&C) Tested with real mission data – Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO)

• Other missions pending (RAVEN, GPM, etc…)

Experimented against JPL Schema• XTCE database successfully converted to JPL AMMOS MMD format• Limited testing at this time, but this will be expanded in FY15

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NASA JPL

Task started in FY12 and looks at approaches to address the rising need to share and interpret information across Centers and Space Agencies.

How we Recognized Success

✔ Year 1 - Did we learned enough about XTCE and AMMOS missions to make a judgment on applicability of XTCE for use across AMMOS?

✔ Year 2 – Are JPL missions and XTCE ready to move towards operational use?

• Goddard responsible for XTCE technical tools (XTCE to MMD, MMD to XTCE)

• JPL concurs on readiness for infusion to a JPL mission through the Multi-Mission Dictionaries (MMD)

Year 3 and beyond – XTCE standard infused across multiple JPL and other NASA Centers applications and missions

• Europa Clipper, JPL Core FSW

• Potentially other: Mars 2020, INSPIRE CubeSat, JSC

Workshops GSAW (California, USA) – March 2015 ESAW (Darmstadt, Germany) – June 2015