A practical description is presented of the methods used to reduce spacecraft telemetry data using a hierarchial toolkit of software programs developed for a UNIX environment. A project requiring the design, implementation and test flight of small, lightweight spacecraft was recently conducted. This spacecraft development required hundreds of tests and integrations of subsystems on several special purpose testbeds, with each test creating large amounts of telemetered data. This paper focuses on the automated analysis and reduction of data which is telemetered from one of the key subsystems, the Probe. A typical telemetry stream from a testbed run averaged 50 Megabytes of raw data, containing over 1600 system variables. The large telemetry file (raw data) sent from the Probe was decoded and decomposed into a large number of smaller Break Out Files (BOFs) containing variables with timestamps, and image files.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Automated analysis tools for reducing spacecraft telemetry data


    Contributors:
    T. J. Voss (author)

    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    9 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





    Spacecraft telemetry and command

    Charles, F. J. / Larson, F. L. | NTRS | 1967



    An adaptable spacecraft telemetry system.

    Czarcinski, E. A. / Maxwell, M. S. / Silverman, J. R. | NTRS | 1965


    Anomaly Root Cause Analysis Method Based on Spacecraft Telemetry Data

    Tian, Hongwei / Wang, Lu / Yang, Wenfang | IEEE | 2024