Software Systems Engineering Branch/Code 581
Technologies and Products
Technical Expertise
Through previous projects, or under internal R&D, HQ or other funding, Code 581 has developed expertise and products in technology areas such as the following:
- Flight and Ground Systems
- Software Systems
- Defines concept through implementation to operation
- Develops Specifications
- Designs system architecture
- Sensor webs/distributed sensors management
Current Technologies & Products
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- Dramatically improve onboard processing (OBP) capability for high data rate missions, in particular, HyspIRI.
- Goddard Dynamic Simulator (GDS)
- Real-time high fidelity environmental and space component simulator.
- Current mission support is provided to GEDI, GPM, LRO, MMS, and NICER.
- Sensor Web 3G for Earth Science Decadal Missions
- Link together ground and space-based instruments to enable autonomous collaborative observation collections.
- Current mission support is provided to LADEE.
- Software Simulation of Electrical Components for Spacecraft Development
- Validation methods for software models of electrical components with the objective of expanding the use of bit-level software simulations from software development to spacecraft design.