Eurostar E3000 Satellite On-Board Software Development of a product line towards multiple system needs

D. Breton (1) , A Rossignol (1)

1 EADS Astrium SAS

The present paper describes how the on-board software for the telecommunication satellites family Eurostar E3000 contributes to the successful story of the product line. It encompasses a synthetic description of the platform and the on-board software functions and major requirements to support the different options and variants, how this generic software was efficiently developed and verified, how each instantiation for each new satellite program could benefit from the overall industrialization process.

Keywords: Reusability; Evolvability; Product line

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Embedded Systems

D. Breton, A Rossignol. Eurostar E3000 Satellite On-Board Software Development of a product line towards multiple system needs. Conference ERTS'06, Jan 2006, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-02270493⟩