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NASA GSFC Software wins 2020 Software of the Year: Creating a Software “App Store” for Exploration and Science Missions.
Projects can pick from a selection of existing processor platforms, operating systems, software tools, and applications to implement their mission, significantly reducing cost, risk, and schedule. Projects then focus on mission specific applications and can then chose to share any applications or updates back to the cFS open source community.
The cFS was developed by the Flight Software Systems Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and was first used by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter , which launched in 2009. The cFS was used on subsequent Goddard missions such as the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission , the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission , multiple International Space Station Experiments, and now it will be used in a range of Goddard SmallSats.
JPL has been investigating CubeSats and SmallSats mission costs to develop models that can estimate and validate the costs of future missions early on in the formulation phase. This allows mission designers to better understand constraints and potential solutions to spur innovation in concept development.
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