SCOS-2000 Release 4.0 : Multi-mission/Multi-Domain Capabilities in ESA SCOS-2000 MCS Kernel

GMV, leading a European consortium, has recently been responsible for the development of SCOS-2000 Release 4.0 (SCOS-2000 R4.0). The overall objective of the project, as described in this paper, was the production of the SCOS-2000 R4.0 infrastructure Mission Control System for the European Space Agency. The main tasks performed are: o Porting of the system to new operating system versions (Linux SUSE 9.0) and a preliminary analysis of the work to be done for the porting to new hardware platforms (64 bits platforms). o Implementation of the first set of the SCOS-2000 Multi-domain requirements, producing the core multi-domain system. o Development of a number of re-engineering and harmonization activities on the existing system. o Integration of a number of patches from SCOS-2000 maintenance projects for bug fixing. o Integration of system improvements from missions. The SCOS-2000 system is a mature infrastructure mission control system, used in several missions in ESOC and external operators. Last official release is SCOS-2000 R3.1, which has been the baseline for SCOS-2000 R4.0. R3.1 is a single domain mission control system, providing most of the generic functionality required for the monitoring and control of usual missions.