Spacecraft Command Language (SCL)

Spacecraft Command Language (SCL)

There is increasing demand within the aerospace and defense industry for cost-effective, easily available commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions. However, mission critical operations demand high levels of functionality, flexibility, scalability and control not always available with COTS products. The award-winning Spacecraft Command Language (SCL) product offers a proven COTS solution to support the complete life-cycle of command and control operations.

Using SCL's full-featured scripting language, you can easily build, test and operate diverse control systems across mission critical command and control (C2) and Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C3ISR) domains. It is the industry's only solution

using the same technology for both ground control and flight software systems, which increases flexibility and reduces costs over time. The system's Real-Time Engine is portable so it can deliver data to a variety of workstations and embedded systems. First deployed operationally on the NASA Clementine mission in 1994, SCL provides a mature, stable, and extensible software architecture to help ensure success in a variety of systems requiring autonomy and lights-out operations. SCL has more than 20 years of on-orbit experience, including:

• 12 years operating as a component of the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE) on Earth Observing -1

  • ASE on EO-1 was a recipient of the 2005 NASA Software of the Year Award

• An 8 year mission supporting both flight and ground operations for the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)

• A man-rating certification - the highest level of quality for spaceflight - from NASA for the Interim Control Module (ICM)

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