Titulo Estágio
Mission Data Visualization
Área Tecnológica
Interação com o Utilizador
Local do Estágio
VisionSpace, Matosinhos.
Enquadramento
Visionspace Technologies is a company in space industry. We provide services to European Space Agency (ESA) Ground Segment Infrastructure regarding verification and validation of critical software.
Since the beginning, VisionSpace was involved in the design and quality assurance phase of the Simulation Ground Infrastructure from the European Space Agency (ESA). It is important to notice that besides well defined model-based development cycles and frameworks of Operational Spacecraft Simulators (OSS), there is always some Mission specific requirements that only fits specifically to that Spacecraft under development.
At the same time as the Spacecraft is build, an OSS is developed, which uses the On-Board Software (OBSW), which goal is to provide training to the Flight Control Teams (FCT). During the training phase of the FCT, the Spacecraft Engineers become familiarized with the Spacecraft and their specific routines ones the Spacecraft is launched.
The visualization of the status and monitoring of a complex system as a Spacecraft requires the analysis of the critical components and implementing additional functionalities to monitor and changing their status.
This master's thesis appears in the scope of the development of a visualization tool that allows to monitor the Ground Segment and the Spacecraft components. This study will take shape of the integration of the current ESA Ground Operations System interacting with the OSS.
Operating a Spacecraft is a critical task for all member of the FCT and it is required an intensive training, where during these trainings an OSS is used and failures were intensively injected to perform recovery procedures.
Since the Spacecraft is a complex and critical system it is hard to display all its components and implements all its failure modes. Currently the only way to monitor the Spacecraft is through Alpha-Numeric and Graphical Displays, where only values are shown. This tool will go further, not just showing the current values of the Spacecraft, but also displaying intuitively its components and the user immediately grasp the meaning of the health-status just by looking coloring schemes of the components.
Beside identifying visually the failures, it is important to understand the effects of such failure and how to handle them. The analysis of such failure-effect events fundamental for troubleshooting and executing recovery procedures by the FCT. Therefore an extension is proposed to the tool to manage the failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA).
Understanding all the Spacecraft Sub-Sytems is not the goal of his study, but implementing the visualization tool and creating an overview and understanding the main visual-components of the Ground Segment and Spacecraft is the main concert of this study.
Objetivo
This master work is divided into two main components, a theoretical component and a practical component.
The goals for this master thesis are the following:
- Analyze and study satellite missions carried out by ESA(European Space Agency); - Analyze and study different satellite sensors which provide different kind of data to
the ground stations; - Analyze and study the current online visualization of satellite data mission and their
best practices (state of the art); - Study how these mission data should be displayed to the user; - Develop an online front-end system (website) that is able to display mission data; - Develop an back-end system (web-server) to respond to the front-end system
requests; - Develop an web service (Restful) to provide mission data. This platform will be used by
the web-server mentioned before and will provide any user (probably scientists) mission data as they register and request.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
- Milestone1 (Month 1 to Month 2)
The first milestone will be mainly used to do theoretical research about the different missions carried out by ESA and study the different sensors carried aboard the satellite, each satellite has many sensors and they provide different type of data to the ESA ground stations.
In this milestone it is important to gather real data provided by some real mission. The goal is to choose a mission (satellite), gather data or information and try to understand the file type and see real data or information.
Milestone2 (Month 3 to Month 5)
The second milestone phase is to study the state of the art in online mission data, i.e, online websites that show information about real missions carried out by ESA or other space agency.
Study how the mission data or information available should be displayed to the end user in a user-friendly way, so that users could use our system to help them in their projects.
Research about the system architecture to be developed and possible frameworks to use in this project.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
-Milestone 3(Month 6 to Month 8)
The third milestone is exclusively devoted to the development of the proposed prototyped system. It will be expected the system to be finished at the end of this period.
-Milestone 4 (Month 9 to Month 10)
The last milestone will be the shortest one, this will be mainly devoted to evaluate and validate the system built, guaranteeing that everything proposed has been done correctly and efficiently. Bugs will be fixed.
At the end, all conclusions about the work done will be written and the thesis document will be reviewed.
Condições
People are the foundation of Visionspace success. As an employee-owned company, we care about not only the technologies we develop but also the path we take to create them. Visionspace operates under a highly collaborative organizational model that recognizes and encourages leadership throughout the company and takes care of the individual.
Visionspace' technical staff members play a pivotal role in developing advanced software technology. Engineers work in small team settings and must successfully interact with clients, partners, and other employees in a highly cooperative and intellectually challenging environment.
We’re looking for people who can invent, learn, think, and inspire. We reward creativity and thrive on collaboration.
We offer you a great internship experience with a fast growing company and the opportunity to join our staff.
Our philosophy, simply stated, is recruit once, hire twice.
This is a unpaid internship, Visionspace will pay:
- Food allowance;
- Travel allowance.
Observações
- Recommended Bibliography
-- “EGOS User Desktop - Interface Control Document”, European Space Agency
-- “SIMSAT, Software User Manual”, European Space Agency
Orientador
Mario Ulisses Pires Araujo Costa
ucosta@visionspace.com 📩