Flight Software Systems Branch/Code 582
Projects and Missions
Software Engineering Expertise
Code 582 provides software and computer engineers as well as computer scientists with expertise in:
- Embedded real-time software engineering creating products the enable spacecraft hardware, science instruments and flight computers to operate as an integrated on-orbit science observatory
- Life-cycle flight software engineering, including:
- Early mission formulations and designs
- Requirements analysis
- Development, verification and validation
- Mission life-sustaining engineering
- High fidelity simulation test systems
Supporting Current Missions and Projects
- Capture, Containment, & Return System (CCRS)
- Developing flight software including Payload Software (PSW) and Robot Software (RSW)
- Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI)
- Developing Descent Sphere flight software
- Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)
- Integrating Flight Vehicle Test Simulator
- Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE)
- Developing Spacecraft and Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) flight software
- On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1)
- Developing Spacecraft, Servicing Payload, and SPIDER Payload flight software
- Roman Space Telescope (RST)
- Developing Spacecraft and WFI flight software
Sustaining Engineering Missions
- Aqua
- Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS)
- Aura
- Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST)
- Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)
- Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)
- James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
- Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD)
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
- Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
- Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)
- Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
- Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT)
- Terra