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<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 58 of 350<br />

commanding, to artificially append a margin of three imaging scenes covering the<br />

discontinuity boundaries (cf. [RD-41]).<br />

3.5.5 SCHEDULING<br />

The <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2 mission aims for a high autonomy with enhanced pre-programming, so that<br />

the nominal spacecraft operations will execute according to a sequence of commands<br />

uploaded from ground typically once every 14 days.<br />

Two schedule references are supported:<br />

- The Mission Timeline (MTL) based on a time-code referenced on the on-board clock;<br />

- The Orbit Position Schedule (OPS).<br />

To a large extent, spacecraft scheduling will require that the sensor measurements or<br />

downlink events to ground-stations precisely correspond to their on-ground related features<br />

such as the sensor overflying a specific area on earth or the satellite being effectively visible<br />

within a given ground-station mask. On the other hand, the varying nature of the spacecraft<br />

low earth orbit, as perturbed through atmospheric-drag and geo-gravitational forces, induces<br />

that spacecraft positioning cannot be predicted with the required precision in the long-term.<br />

The OPS scheduling approach precisely answers to the varying geo-positioning paradigm<br />

outlined above in that it allows commands to execute relatively to the spacecraft position<br />

within the orbit, the accurate positioning being measured autonomously on-board through the<br />

GPS embedded hardware.<br />

Hence, whilst the classical MTL-based scheduling will allow for accurate commanding of onboard<br />

operations at specific times, it is not well adapted to long-term operation schedules for<br />

which the OPS approach will generally be preferred.<br />

3.5.6 COMMANDING AND CONTROL<br />

For commanding and control, the <strong>Sentinel</strong>-2 satellites are interfaced from ground via the S-<br />

Band channel activated by schedule during pre-defined S-Band ground-station contact<br />

periods, primarily using the TMTC and ranging ground-station at Kiruna (Sweden).<br />

During those periods, commanding can be performed (TC) and telemetry (TM) is received<br />

with an apportioned data-rate on the S-Band link of 64kbps for uplink and 128kbps or<br />

2048kbps configurable for downlink.<br />

In particular, the TC link is used for providing schedule increments to the spacecraft (cf.<br />

3.5.5), upload on-board software patches or configuration parameters (cf. 3.5.2.4) and overall<br />

control of the spacecraft in-orbit (e.g. manoeuvre commanding).<br />

The TM link is used for TC acknowledge, general spacecraft monitoring, downlink of on-board<br />

software configuration, and basic satellite orbit ranging and datation activities.<br />

S-Band communication with the spacecraft is made following the CCSDS Packet Utilisation<br />

Standard (PUS) services.<br />

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