Automating Services for Spacecraft Conceptual Design Via an Enterprise Service Bus

CloudSatCD: An e-Engineering Solution to Space Systems Concept Design

“…SpaceESB is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) extension for reaching budgeting which may be remotely invoked using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm [6]. As shown in Figure 4, the ESB enables distributed access to some budget services and allows some engineering workflow to be supported.…”

“…Hence, the approach taken facilitates towards information sharing and integration, platform independence and computer systems interoperability. Additionally, it allows that the impact of any major design decisions taken by the design team be rapidly evaluated and incorporated tending to reduce misconceptions risks [6].…”

“…In this work, we extend two previous endeavors towards providing an e-engineering environment, an application named SatBudgets [5] and its enterprise service bus extension named SpaceESB [6] both targeting also the concept design phase of satellite projects. The extension is undertaken by cloudenabling its core functionalities and providing eengineering services in order to help mainly systems engineers, managers and major decision makers.…”