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The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) is an international organization of major national space agencies and industry partners formed in 1982 that peacefully cooperate in the development of standards to promote interchange of space-related information. The goal of the CCSDS is to create an open and CCSDS-compatible space data system for international support and science information interchange. The CCSDS is composed of ten member agencies, twenty-three observer agencies, and over 100 industry partners. The CCSDS Blue Book is a reference that is on the desk of almost every spacecraft communications engineer.
Recommendations
The CCSDS develops recommendations, called Blue Books, for standards in order to:
- Reduce the cost of performing space missions
- Enable cross support for space missions
- Improve understanding of space related data
- Preserve archived space related data
Benefits of CCSDS
- Promotes Understanding of Exchanged Data
- Reduces Nonrecurring Costs:
- Fewer Project-Specific Developments
- Shorter Test Times
- Less Training of Staff is Needed
- Reduces Recurring Costs:
- More Commercial Off-the-Shelf COTS Hardware is Needed
- Fewer Facilities Because of Load Leveling
- Only Selected Redundancy is Needed
- More Automation, Less Staff
- Mitigates Mission Risk
- Enables Ingest and Access Data Archives
Important CCSDS Standards
- Telemetry Channel Coding
- Packet Telemetry
- Space Link Extension Services (SLE)
- Space Communications Protocol Specifications (SCPS)
- SCPS-FP
- SCPS-TP
- SCPS-SP
- SCPS-NP
- Proximity-1 Space Link Protocol
- CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP)
External links
- CCSDS Official Web Site URL Accessed 13 March 2006
- CCSDS Documents in PDF format URL Accessed 12 April 2006
- An Introduction to CCSDS URL Accessed 12 April 2006
- CDSCC, an acronym sometimes confused with CCSDS URL Accessed 12 March 2006
- Goddard Space Flight Center URL Accessed 12 March 2006
- National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center URL Accessed 12 March 2006
The content of this article was adapted and expanded from the CCSDS site at GSFC (Public Domain)
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