How CSC Can Help
CSC brings clients unique and unparalleled aerospace knowledge of flight simulations, planning and scheduling, space communications, data processing, flight dynamics, and systems engineering offering focused expertise in areas such as:
- Flight software
- Ground control systems and middleware
- Mission planning and scheduling
- Science data processing and data archiving systems
- Spacecraft and ground simulators
- Space and earth science
- Spacecraft orbit analysis
- Network and security engineering
- Instrument checkout and calibration
- Lights-out, automation, and process control
- Front-end processors
- Spacecraft requirements analysis and operations concepts
- Systems engineering
- Systems verification and validation
- Project management
How Clients Benefit
Clients rely on CSC as a valuable partner and advisor through every step of the mission life cycle, from mission development and operations through the final delivery and archiving of science data for the research community. We have developed tools and performed trade studies, requirements definition, operations concepts, and Guidance, Navigation and Control engineering since the Apollo program. Today, CSC supports Mission Development and Preparation with prototype development, standards development, flight software, ground systems, science data processing and data archiving systems, simulators, and test and configuration management tools.
CSC also works in science and mission planning, command generation, data processing and archiving, anomaly identification and resolution, sustaining engineering and reengineering, and lights-out operations. More than 10,000 scientists and engineers worldwide use CSC-developed and maintained ground support systems. CSC currently supports several highly visible NASA missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cassini, and the Mars Exploration Rovers.
CSC supports programs in Space Science, Earth Science, and Aeronautics, assisting in experiment development, calibration, and deployment; scientific research; algorithm optimization; and software development and maintenance. For more than two decades, NASA has competitively awarded research grants to CSC scientists to pursue cutting-edge research using NASA satellites.
Representative Projects
CSC has contributed significantly to many projects and spacecraft control centers at NASA. These include Hubble Space Telescope (HST), X-Ray Timing Explorer (XTE), Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Wind/Polar, Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), Landsat 7, Earth Observer 1 (EO1), Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). On these projects, CSC has successfully supported missions and reengineered systems to infuse new technologies, enhance capabilities, accommodate changed mission objectives due to budgetary constraints, and reduce operational costs.
CSC developed and maintained the ground support systems that have supported more than 300 successful NASA missions and more than 10,000 scientists and engineers worldwide, giving us a deep understanding of the ingredients of successful support to the scientific community.We assisted NASA in overseeing the development of the Earth Observing System (EOS) Core System, from concept development through operational tests. CSC was a pioneer in GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) communications, Internet protocol in space, and other groundbreaking technologies used successfully on NASA missions — all of which started with CSC studies and prototyping. CSC develops and deploys space mission automation tools that use various disciplines such as artificial intelligence, model- and case-based reasoning, soft computing (neural networks), and real-time fault detection and diagnostic reasoning to create advanced tools for the construction and deployment of real-time expert systems.
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Learn about the broader benefits of developments in space applications and engineering.
Learn about our support for NASA, which goes back almost half a century.
Read a case study about our work to integrate NASA's Columbia supercomputer.
Visit our High-Performance Computing Center of Excellence.
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