Automated verification of spacecraft telemetry data

Abstract

Telemetry package is one of the inevitable subsystems in a complex spacecraft. Telemetry (TM) data of the mainframe and payload section of the spacecraft is required to be monitored continuously throughout its life span to check the subsystems health and take appropriate decision from ground or autonomously from on-board. In various types of spacecraft like geostationary, remote sensing and interplanetary machines, the telemetry data collected for the health monitoring of hardware, software and its functions will be huge. This huge data of collection is aided by Telemetry database code which has to be verified against the TM requirements. These telemetry requirements data are maintained in flat word and excel worksheet. This paper delineates the methodology and implementation of automation of entire telemetry database verification. This paper also describes the comprehensive process for verifying spacecraft telemetry related information of all types of spacecrafts to complete the traceability analysis very fast and display result in GUI form. This software reduces a lot of valuable time during project schedule and ease the process of analysis.