The Design of the European Ground Systems - Common Core (EGS-CC)

The European Ground Systems – Common Core (EGS-CC) is a European initiative to develop a common infrastructure to support space systems monitoring and control in preand post-launch phases for all mission types. This is expected to bring a number of benefits, such as the seamless transition from spacecraft Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) to mission operations, reduce cost and risk, support the modernisation of legacy systems and promote the exchange of ancillary implementations across organizations. The initiative is being performed as a collaboration between ESA, European National Agencies and European Industry. A presentation of the initiative and its current status can be found in the paper “Highlights of the European Ground Systems Common Core Initiative”. This paper will focus on the Software Requirements Engineering and Architectural Design, Phase B of the EGS-CC project, which has been performed by a geographically distributed industrial team in close collaboration with the EGS-CC System Engineering Team (SET) under ESA Contract.