NASA Kennedy Space Center selects company’s OS/COMET® product
 OS/COMET® is a commercial off-the-shelf software tool that provides superior TT&C capabilities for military, intelligence, and commercial satellite constellations. |
Harris Corporation announces the NASA Kennedy Space Center has selected its OS/COMET® telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) software for the Constellation Launch Control System.
OS/COMET® is a commercial off-the-shelf software tool that provides superior TT&C capabilities for military, intelligence, and commercial satellite constellations. The OS/COMET® product will deliver critical command and telemetry processing services to meet the needs of the Launch Control System architecture.
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The KSC Launch Control System architecture leverages leading-edge industry standards, existing technologies, and commercially available products to provide significant core functionality in the command and control of constellation launch vehicles and ground support systems.
 The KSC Launch Control System architecture leverages leading-edge industry standards, existing technologies, and commercially available products to provide significant core functionality in the command and control of constellation launch vehicles and ground support systems. |
Based on open software architecture concepts, the Launch Control System will deploy OS/COMET® to provide a service within the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) pattern. Using OS/COMET® as a SOA service capitalizes on its ease of configuration and efficient API interface to the LCS architecture.
“Launch control is the perfect space application for OS/COMET® and this procurement by KSC is an indication of NASA’s new direction of using COTS for the Constellation program,” says Frank Van Rensselaer, vice president and senior executive account manager, NASA Programs Harris Corporation. “Harris has a 50-year legacy with the NASA mission to complement more than two decades of successful TT&C deployments supporting commercial and defense spacecraft. OS/COMET® is the lowest risk COTS launch control choice for Constellation.”
Harris NASA Programs business unit conducts advanced research studies and develops network architectures that provide highly reliable, space and terrestrial communications and support solutions for the mission critical challenges of NASA’s Exploration program.