For spacecraft development, realizing strong supporting ground segment software is as important as designing the actual hardware component of the spacecraft. This thesis describes the author’s contributions to the ground segment software design and development for nanosatellite space missions at the UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory. Particular emphasis is given to the ground segment software for the CanX-3 and CanX-4/-5 missions. For the CanX-3 mission, several software applications are explored, specifically ground control software for the payload on-board computer and star tracker, and mission planning software. For the CanX-4/-5 mission, its mission monitor and control software, and whole orbit data parser are discussed. For each software application, design considerations and decisions made during the development are explained. Furthermore, detailed discussions on their architectural and graphical user interface design and implementation are presented.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OTU.1807/35114 |
| Date | 18 March 2013 |
| Creators | Choi, Jin Hyouk |
| Contributors | Zee, Robert E. |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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