GSC Sentinel-2 PDGS OCD - Emits - ESA
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4.6 System Maintenance and Evolution Concepts<br />
<strong>GSC</strong> <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2 <strong>PDGS</strong> <strong>OCD</strong><br />
Issue 1 Revision 2 (draft) - 25.07.2010<br />
GMES-GSEG-EOPG-TN-09-0008<br />
page 160 of 350<br />
The <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2 <strong>PDGS</strong> will assume a single overall configuration serving both <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2A and<br />
<strong>Sentinel</strong>-2B units. As such, the <strong>PDGS</strong> will be designed and qualified (since its first deployed<br />
configuration before <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2A launch) for operations in the dual spacecraft context, at least<br />
on a functional point of view.<br />
Nevertheless, the time separating the two launches together with the requirements on the<br />
<strong>PDGS</strong> to insure specific tasks during the commissioning-phase of the spacecrafts will impose<br />
that while the <strong>PDGS</strong> is fully operational for <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2A, it shall accommodate the gradual<br />
phase-in of the activities required to serve the second unit (e.g. <strong>PDGS</strong> sizing, non-regression<br />
testing, OSV, commissioning activities, etc).<br />
It is further anticipated that although the two units are theoretically identical [Assumption-01],<br />
slight changes might have to be accommodated before-hand on the <strong>PDGS</strong> to prepare for the<br />
assimilation of <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2B in addition to the hardware sizing increase required to cope with<br />
the dual data-flow.<br />
Hence, the <strong>PDGS</strong> operations concept shall include a specific operation scenario provisioning<br />
for the accommodation of additional constellation spacecrafts while in operations.<br />
As regarding the foreseen evolution of the <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2 mission with EDRS (cf. section 3.6)<br />
which will possibly happen subsequently to <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2A launch, similar provision shall be<br />
made in the <strong>PDGS</strong> operations concepts to allow for accommodating the new interfaces in<br />
operation.<br />
More generally, the <strong>PDGS</strong> shall account for the necessary evolutions of its system-level<br />
configuration throughout its lifetime in hardware and software as required by its operational<br />
maintenance activity.<br />
This section settles the operation baseline in this respect. Following introductory paragraphs,<br />
a common approach applicable to the <strong>PDGS</strong> operational transfer is specified. Then,<br />
specialised scenarios targeting the operational phase-in of new spacecraft units and EDRS<br />
are described.<br />
4.6.1 REFERENCE-PLATFORM<br />
The operational maintenance activity of a system with distributed complexity such as the<br />
<strong>PDGS</strong> will not efficiently be carried out directly on the target platform. As it will commonly be<br />
installed with a dedicated environment tailored for its operational scope (e.g. without space<br />
dedicated to IV&V activities and associated teams), and considering its geographical<br />
distribution in various sites, problem troubleshooting and resolution would be doubtlessly<br />
unproductive.<br />
Hence, for self-supporting its system maintenance and evolution activities, the <strong>PDGS</strong> will<br />
include a specific Reference-Platform (RP) function. The Reference-Platform will aim at<br />
simulating the <strong>PDGS</strong> behaviours in parts or as a whole by way of a simplified local instance<br />
acting as a reference image of the deployed <strong>PDGS</strong> instance. There will be a unique<br />
Reference-Platform that will be equipped and manned specifically in order to:<br />
○ Support the IV&V Phases of the <strong>PDGS</strong>;<br />
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