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GENSO - Call for proposals for new students or teams

12 November 2008
The ESA Education Office is currently looking for student teams to fill the following vacancies in the Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations project.

GENSO is a software standard which allows each ground station on the network to communicate with non-local spacecraft and share data with the spacecraft controllers via the internet. This will allow for a near global coverage in communication for every educational satellite launched, greatly increasing the return from educational space missions and the opportunities for sending commands to the spacecraft.

The call is open to students and amateur radio enthusiasts from any country, although preference will be given to students from the member countries of the ISEB Agencies, in particular if their participation is well supported by their universities.

The projects outlined below have been identified by current team members as tasks which are distinct enough to be suitable for a university project or thesis, while still forming a valuable addition to the overall GENSO project. Combinations of projects or new, original projects relevant to GENSO may also be proposed.

Hardware Interface and Local Control
1. Adding modem support to GMS
2. Adding rotator support to GMS (AZ & EL 1000 [RC2800] / G-5500 [GS-232B]) (driver)
3. Adding audio support to GMS
4. GENSO GROWS Gateway Server (UNISEC preferred)

Ground Station and Mission Applications - projects related to the Hardware Abstraction Layer
5. Protocol transcoder
6. Software Modem
7. Software Radio
8. Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) upgrade

Ground Station and Mission Applications - projects related to the Ground Station Servers and the Mission Control Client
9. Hardware configuration (graphical drag'n'drop)
10. Real-time streaming (data/audio/voice)
11. "Wall plugs" (pass report delivery to user/API)

Authentication Server
12. Central Scheduler (optimisation, conflict resolution, knowledge based system)
13. Redundant Server Clustering
14. Space Communication Quality Assurance
15. NAT-Traversal

User Administration Interfaces
16. Design of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for GSS and MCC and web interfaces
17. Implementation of Graphical User Interfaces for GSS and MCC
18. Implementation of web interfaces (admin & end-users)

Drivers and Development
19. Drivers for a specified hardware item
20. Iterative development and review

Review and Verification
21. Simulation Tool

Performance Modelling and Simulation
22. Performance analysis / modelling / simulation

Infrastructure (servers and services)
23. Help / knowledge forum

Communication and Public Relations
24. Communication content
25. GENSO graphical identity
26. Teaching exercises

Legal Matters and Agreements
27. Investigation of relevant legal matters and drafting of end user agreements

Ground Station Hardware
28. Survey and analysis of existing/future modulation techniques

The details on these opportunities can be found on the Call for Proposals PDF under documents.

Proposals and deadline

Expressions of interest should be submitted to genso @ esa.int using the template provided. Prior to submitting a proposal, interested parties may contact the same address with any questions.

The initial deadline for responding to the call is 12 December 2008. After this time, any projects still open or future opportunities that arise will be advertised on the GENSO project website. A separate call for ground stations to test the software is envisaged in early 2009.

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More information

Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations How GENSO works Project background Project timeline GENSO teams

Documents

Call for proposals - European Operations Node Call for proposals - new student teams Proposal template