The article discusses the architectural basis of the cross-platform onboard software for navigation and communication satellites. The functional characteristics of the designed software components are the queues used, the ports, the supported hardware, and the low-level inter-hardware communication protocols. The verbal description of the selected area of knowledge and the formalization of relations between individual entities allows you to move from the architectural basis, limited by physical parameters and the environment for the functioning of software tools, to a descriptive model, which served as the basis for a relational database. An identification method is proposed for unambiguously identifying a specific component of the on-board software with the possibility of performing further actions on it, for example, archiving, retrieving, duplicating, etc. An onboard software component is viewed as a complex entity that contains not only program code, but also a number of attributes that are used during operation. The structural diagram of a relational database is presented. This structure unites and links both information about software components and the electronic document management tool as a whole.