[Cesg-all] CCSDS in the News - CCSDS: International Space Communications Standards Organization Surpasses 300th Mission

[penelope.walz]

Dear CCSDS Community:

 

Today, Wednesday, August 11, 2004, CCSDS Public Affairs disseminated a press
release entitled "CCSDS: International Space Communications Standards
Organization Surpasses 300th Mission" to major US news outlets and
international space-targeted media.

 

You may read the release below or find it at
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14789 .

 

Congratulations to all CCSDS participants whose hard work over the years
made surpassing 300 missions possible.

 

Best regards,

Penelope Walz

Tel +1 301 474 5424

penelope.walz at btas.com

630 Ivy Lane, Suite 720

Greenbelt MD 20770

 

 

 

The  Consultative  Committee  for  Space  Data  Systems (CCSDS)

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

 

For immediate release

 

CCSDS: International Space Communications Standards Organization Surpasses
300th Mission 

 

WASHINGTON, August 11 (CCSDS Secretariat) - Today the Consultative Committee
for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) announced that more than 300 missions have
elected to use the committee's internationally developed standards and
protocols to enable reliable communications in space.  And the number
continues to rise.

 

 Supported by NASA, the CCSDS is dedicated to furthering interoperability in
the international space community through the development of standardized
techniques for handling space data.  Founded in 1982, the world's 10 major
space agencies originally created the CCSDS as a forum to discuss common
problems occurring in space communications.  Since then, the organization
has grown into an international working collaborative that includes the ten
original member agencies, 22 observer agencies and over 100 industry
associates worldwide.  Industrial associates develop compatible products to
meet the requirements of CCSDS enabled missions and ground-support
complexes. 

 

"Since its inception, the CCSDS has operated mostly 'behind the scenes' to
improve communications in space and to enable the build-up of reusable
international mission support infrastructure," said Adrian Hooke of NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., and a founder of the
CCSDS.  "To now know that over 300 missions have chosen to use CCSDS'
communications protocols is truly an exciting milestone for this
organization." 

  

CCSDS standards and protocols reduce project costs, and enhance cross
support, interoperability and data communications.   Earlier this year,
Proximity-1, a short-haul delivery protocol developed by the CCSDS, became
the first standard space communications protocol able to reliably operate in
the proximate environment between a Mars bound asset and an orbiter.  In
fact, all Mars spacecraft and, for the past 15 years, virtually all deep
spacecraft, have implemented CCSDS standard data communications protocols on
their long-haul links back to Earth.

    

The most widely used standards include CCSDS recommendations for exchange of
spacecraft telemetry and telecommand information, including mechanisms for
interconnecting ground stations, control centers and mission archives in
support of data sharing.  From the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the first
mission to move towards adoption of CCSDS standards, and the International
Space Station, the largest international scientific project to date, to
today's newsmaker Cassini-Huygens, missions worldwide have benefited from
CCSDS collaboration.  Yet despite their popularity, each carefully
engineered CCSDS standard is available to the world free of charge. 

 

 "A high level of international cooperation and information sharing occurs
throughout our membership," explained Dr. John D. Kelley of NASA
Headquarters, Washington, D.C., and the CCSDS' General Secretary and
Chairman of the Management Council.  "It's been our key to success in
developing the sort of high-quality standards and protocols that the space
community regularly chooses to adopt."

 

The original national member space agencies represent Japan, the United
Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Russia, Canada and the United
States, as well as the multi-national European Space Agency.  One of the
first organizations to recognize the benefits of international cooperation
in space, the CCSDS will continue to foster a collaborative environment for
the advancement of space communications into the future. 

 

 

 

About the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) 

 

In 1982, the world's major space agencies recognized that future data system
interoperability would be enhanced through the development of standardized
techniques for handling space data and established the Consultative
Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) as a forum where common space data
system standards could be developed.

  

Over two decades later, CCSDS has grown into an organization of
international cooperation and information-sharing comprised of  ten  member
agencies, 22 observer agencies and over 100 private industry associates from
around the world.  Data communications protocols developed by CCSDS now fly
on over 300 international missions, including every spacecraft associated
with the Mars mission. 

  

For more information about the CCSDS or to find CCSDS standards, please
visit the CCSDS web site at http://www.ccsds.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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