[Moims-mp] Minutes of the MP&S WG meeting on 22 April 2025

Wed Apr 23 11:15:18 UTC 2025

Dear all,

Please find below the minutes of the MP&S WG meeting of yesterday afternoon.

Regards,

Peter

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Subject: Mission Planning & Scheduling WG meeting
Date and time: 22 April 2025, 16:00 - 18:00 CET
Location: WebEx

Attendance list

- Peter van der Plas (ESA, chair)
- Eric Ferguson (NASA, deputy chair)
- César Coelho (ESA)
- Christoph Lenzen (DLR)
- Geoff Lochmaier (NASA)
- Guillermo Buenadicha (ESA)
- Maria Woerle (DLR)
- Marvin Wittschen (DLR)
- Olly Page (UKSA)

Agenda:

  1.  Status and next steps towards Blue Book publication
  2.  Preparation of the agenda for the CCSDS Spring meetings
  3.  RID discussion

Status and next steps towards Blue Book publication

  *   Blue Book
     *   Red Book update v2 provided 23 Feb 2025, all Agencies RIDs closed
     *   Red Book update v3 ongoing, expected 25 Apr 2025, all RIDs to be closed
     *   Blue Book publication version with only minor editorials (if any)
  *   SANA Artefacts
     *   XML Service Specification automatically generated from Blue Book
     *   XSDs for File Formats automatically generated from XML Service Specification
  *   Services Prototyping
     *   Test Specification v21 available, mostly complete now
     *   DLR prototyping completed
     *   ESA prototyping status?!
     *   Cross-checking DLR/ESA prototypes still pending
     *   Yellow Book to be finalized
        *   Guillermo to updated test specifications sections
        *   DLR/ESA to provide test reports / output from testbed
        *   Peter to write the introduction, conclusions, finalize book
  *   File Formats Prototyping
     *   Yellow Book with test specifications mostly completed
     *   ESA prototyping mostly completed
     *   DLR prototype to be updated for current Blue Book and Yellow Book
     *   Cross-checking ESA/DLR prototypes to be automated (script or tool)

Preparation of the agenda for the CCSDS Spring meetings

Meetings will take place 9-13 Jun 2025 at Laurel MD, with the regular time slots
Attendance in person? Attendance remotely? Availability? Constraints?

DLR: Maria in person, Christoph (remote, no constraints) and Marvin (remote, no constraints)
ESA: Guillermo (remote, limited time), Cesar in person (part time, probably 0.5 days in MPS), Peter in person (no constraints), Dave TBD, Dominik TBD
UKSA: Olly in person (TBC)
NASA: Eric in person, Geoff (possibly remote)
CNES: Clement remote (TBC)

Topics for discussion:

  *   Magenta Book (1.5-2 days)
     *   Additional information in the book
        *   Working session on the topics and ideas, way forward
     *   Editorial issues
        *   How to maintain the EA diagrams?
        *   How to include the Information Model specification (Cesar)?
        *   How to align with the Blue Book (avoiding redundancies)
  *   Green Book (1-1.5 days)
     *   Hands-on session(s) on the new sections and topics
  *   GDrive reorganisation + CWE (0.5 day - afternoon session)
     *   Hands-on session to reorganise the directory structure
     *   It should be clear where to find the latest versions
     *   Cleanup some of the old working data
     *   Should be "future-proof" also supporting the upcoming projects
     *   Prototyping documentation and code on CWE, links to GitLab
  *   Next steps (0.5 day - Friday morning)
     *   Outreach and promotion of the standard
     *   Additional supporting information for the standard (MO in general)
     *   Potential future projects, new books
     *   Conclusions
     *   Reporting to MOIMS

Peter will make a planning based on the information above and provide to the WG for further discussion.

RID discussion

See RID table for details, list of all open RIDs with the major ones in bold:

MPS-017              Inconsistencies in XSD mapping
MPS-018
MPS-019
MPS-020
MPS-021              Editorial
MPS-022              Rationalise angle and distance values and units
MPS-023              Editorial
MPS-024
MPS-025
MPS-026              Passing argument values to embedded activities or pointing templates
MPS-027
MPS-028
MPS-029
MPS-030
MPS-031
MPS-032              Editorial
MPS-033              Editorial
MPS-034              New RID from Marvin added to the table

AOB

Next WG meeting: May 20th 16:00 - 17:00

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ESA - European Space Agency

Peter van der Plas
Modelling and Simulation Excellence section (TEC-SFX)
Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality

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