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Green Books: Informational Reports

CCSDS Informational Reports (Green Books) is intended to provide for the timely publication of a very broad range of general information for the CCSDS community. Informational documents are often published in support of an Experimental specification, a Draft Standard or a Recommended Standard. They may therefore contain descriptive material, supporting analysis, test results, scenarios, etc., which are otherwise inappropriate for the contents of a technical specification.

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Telemetry Summary of Concept and Rationale. Green Book. Issue 1. December 1987.
This Report presents the conceptual framework and rationale for the CCSDS Telemetry System. It provides background information supporting the two CCSDS technical Recommendations for Telemetry, Telemetry Channel Coding and Packet Telemetry.
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Lossless Data Compression. Green Book. Issue 2. December 2006.
This Report presents a summary of the key operational concepts and rationale underlying the requirements for the CCSDS Recommended Standard for Lossless Data Compression. Supporting performance information along with illustrations are also included.This Report also provides a broad tutorial overview of the CCSDS Lossless Data Compression algorithm and is aimed at helping first-time readers to understand the Recommended Standard. The current issue corrects minor errors in the original and updates obsolete information.
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Image Data Compression. Green Book. Issue 1. June 2007.
This Informational Report presents a summary of the key operational concepts and rationale which underlie the requirements for the CCSDS Recommended Standard, Image Data Compression (CCSDS 122.0-B-1). Supporting performance information along with illustrations are also included. This report provides a broad tutorial overview of the CCSDS Image Data Compression algorithm and is aimed at helping first-time readers to understand the Recommended Standard. For user test data, go here: http://cwe.ccsds.org/sls/docs/sls-dc/
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Overview of Space Communications Protocols. Green Book. Issue 2. December 2007.
This Report provides an architectural overview of the space link protocols recommended by CCSDS and shows how these protocols are used in space mission data systems.
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TM Synchronization and Channel Coding--Summary of Concept and Rationale. Green Book. Issue 1. June 2006.
This Informational Report contains the concept and supporting rationale for the TM Synchronization and Channel Coding Recommended Standard and includes performance data and historical background information on code selection.
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Space Data Link Protocols--Summary of Concept and Rationale. Green Book. Issue 1. December 2007.
This CCSDS Informational Report contains background and explanatory material to support the CCSDS Recommended Standards on the TC, TM, and AOS Space Data Link Protocols and Communications Operation Procedure-1 that accompanies the TC Space Data Link Protocol.
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Telecommand Summary of Concept and Rationale. Green Book. Issue 6. January 1987.
In order to establish a common framework within which the Agencies may develop standardized telecommand services, the CCSDS advocates adoption of a layered systems architecture. Within this approach, specific layers of service (including their operational protocol and data structuring techniques) may be selected for implementation according to mission requirements. The current layered set of CCSDS telecommand Recommendations was developed to match the conventional free-flying mission environment, as characterized by the transmission of command data at relatively low uplink data rates to spacecraft of moderate complexity. This Report summarizes the principal concepts associated with the CCSDS recommended space mission telecommanding architecture.
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Proximity-1 Space Link Protocol--Rationale, Architecture, and Scenarios. Green Book. Issue 1. August 2007.
This Report contains background and explanatory material to support the CCSDS Recommended Standards for Proximity-1 Space Link Protocol (CCSDS 211.0-B, CCSDS 211.1-B, and CCSDS 211.2-B).
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TC Synchronization and Channel Coding--Summary of Concept and Rationale. Green Book. Issue 1. June 2006.
This Informational Report contains the concept and supporting rationale for the TC Synchronization and Channel Coding Recommended Standard and includes performance data and historical background information on code selection.
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The Application of CCSDS Protocols to Secure Systems. Green Book. Issue 2. January 2006.
This Report is intended to provide guidance to missions that wish to use the CCSDS Recommendations for spacecraft control and data handling but also require a level of security or data protection. The report provides background information on security, details various options for security implementation in space missions, and outlines the impact of security on defined CCSDS services.
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Security Threats against Space Missions. Green Book. Issue 1. October 2006.
This CCSDS Informational Report provides an overview of potential threats against various categories of civilian space missions and provides illustrative security threat data for mission planners.
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Encryption Algorithm Trade Survey. Green Book. Issue 1. March 2008.
This Report presents the results of a survey conducted by the CCSDS Security Working Group.
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Authentication/Integrity Algorithm Issues Survey. Green Book. Issue 1. March 2008.
This Report presents the results of a survey conducted by the CCSDS Security Working Group.
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CCSDS Guide for Secure System Interconnection. Green Book. Issue 1. November 2007.
This CCSDS Informational Report is an adaptation of United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Security Guide for Interconnecting Information Technology Systems (NIST Special Publication 800-47).   The CCSDS Report is tailored for the space community and provides a guide for secure space agency interconnections.
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Bandwidth-Efficient Modulations: Summary of Definition, Implementation, and Performance. Green Book. Issue 1. April 2003.
This Report contains technical material to supplement the CCSDS Recommendations for the standardization of modulation methods for high symbol rate transmissions generated by CCSDS Member Agencies.
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Navigation Data—Definitions and Conventions. Green Book. Issue 2. November 2005.
This Report contains technical material to supplement the CCSDS Recommendations for the standardization of spacecraft navigation data generated by CCSDS Member Agencies. The topics covered herein include radiometric data content, spacecraft ephemeris, planetary ephemeris, tracking station locations, coordinate systems, and attitude data. This Report deals explicitly with the technical definitions and conventions associated with inter-Agency cross-support situations involving the transfer of ephemeris, tracking, and attitude data. The current issue contains expanded material regarding spacecraft attitude data and radiometric tracking data.
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Mission Operations Services Concept. Green Book. Issue 2. August 2006.
This CCSDS Report presents a set of concepts, reference architecture, and service framework for spacecraft monitoring and control. The ability to standardize the interfaces for Spacecraft Monitoring and Control (SM&C) by means of a service oriented architecture will allow significant saving in the development of the flight components and the ground segment of future space missions. In fact, it will be possible to use standardised SM&C infrastructure systems to seamlessly transfer data across systems, and to adopt commercial-off-the-shelf applications for monitoring and control purposes.
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Space Data Systems Operations with Standard Formatted Data Units: System and Implementation Aspects. Green Book. Issue 5. February 1987.
This Report concerns space data systems operations with Standard Formatted Data Units (SFDUs). It explains the rationale for operations with SFDUs, the initial operational requirements for SFDUs, and the major benefits to be expected from operations with SFDUs.This document has been reconfirmed by the CCSDS management Council through March 2008.
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Standard Formatted Data Units — A Tutorial. Green Book. Issue 1. May 1992.
This Report explains the rationale of the Standard Formatted Data Unit (SFDU) concept and outlines the Structure and Construction Rules with the help of examples. It supports the main SFDU Recommendation, CCSDS 620.0-B-2. This document has been reconfirmed by the CCSDS management Council through March 2008.
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Standard Formatted Data Units — Control Authority Procedures Tutorial.. Green Book. Issue 2. November 1994.
This Report describes the Control Authority (CA) organization from both an implementer's and a user's perspective. This document serves as a companion document to CCSDS 630.0-B-1 and CCSDS 632.0-B-1, and as such is intended to provide a tutorial for the procedures and services identified in the Control Authority Procedures (CAP) Recommendation and Control Authority Data Structures (CADS) Recommendation, background to assist in the effective implementation of the CAP and CADS Recommendations, and rationale and requirements for the CA organization.This document has been reconfirmed by the CCSDS management Council through March 2008.
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Parameter Value Language — A Tutorial. Green Book. Issue 2. June 2000.
This Report describes the Parameter Value Language (PVL) and provides a description of how and why one would use this language for information interchange. This document has been reconfirmed by the CCSDS management Council through March 2011.
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The Data Description Language EAST—A Tutorial. Green Book. Issue 1. May 1997.
This Report describes the usage of the EAST language, its format, and construction rules as well as suggested practices. It is a companion document to CCSDS 644.0-B-1, The Data Description Language EAST Specification (CCSD0010). This document has been reconfirmed by the CCSDS management Council through March 2011.
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The Data Description Language EAST—List of Conventions. Green Book. Issue 1. May 1997.
This Report establishes an evolving list of conventions used in the data generation process to produce real numbers. These conventions are referenced in EAST Data Descriptions (see CCSDS 644.0-B-1) and could be referenced in other Data Description Records (DDRs), written in other Data Description Languages (DDLs).This document has been reconfirmed by the CCSDS management Council through March 2011.
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XML Telemetric and Command Exchange (XTCE). Green Book. Issue 1. July 2006.
This CCSDS Informational Report presents a set of concepts and tutorial on the XML Telemetric and Command Exchange (XTCE). XTCE is an XML based format aim at facilitating the exchange of spacecraft telemetry and command databases between different organizations and systems during any mission phase. Such a non-proprietary format avoids the need for customized import/export tools, and the validation and new implementation of mission databases, which are often error-prone. The scope of XTCE is limited to the exchange of satellite telemetry and commanding databases. XTCE can be used to exchange a database between spacecraft manufacturers, instrument manufacturers, and different systems of the ground segment. It can also be used as an exchange mechanism between different development teams or between missions, which enhances database re-use.
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Advanced Orbiting Systems, Networks and Data Links: Summary of Concept, Rationale and Performance. Green Book. Issue 3. November 1992.
This CCSDS Report contains background and explanatory material to supplement the CCSDS Recommendation, Advanced Orbiting Systems, Network and Data Links: Architectural Specification, 701.0-B-2.
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CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP)--Part 1:  Introduction and Overview. Green Book. Issue 3. April 2007.
This Report provides an introduction to the concepts, features and characteristics of the CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP).
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CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP)--Part 2:  Implementers Guide. Green Book. Issue 3. April 2007.
This Report provides information to assist implementers in understanding the details of the protocol and in the selection of appropriate options, and contains suggestions and recommendations about implementation-specific subjects. This Report also contains implementation reports from various member Agencies, reports on testing of the implementations and protocol, and the requirements upon which the CFDP is based.
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CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP)--Part 3:  Interoperability Testing Final. Green Book. Issue 1. September 2007.
This Informational Report describes and discusses the results of CFDP interoperability testing conducted among CCSDS Agencies.
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Next Generation Space Internet. Green Book. Issue 1. April 2003.
This Report describes the proposed Next Generation Space Internet (NGSI) architecture.
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Mars Mission Protocol Profiles--Purpose and Rationale. Green Book. Issue 1. July 2008.
This CCSDS Informational Report provides an operations overview for Mars mission interoperability and gives the supporting rationale for the relevant communications protocols to be used in Mars end-to-end operations for packet or file relaying.
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Spacecraft Onboard Interface Services. Green Book. Issue 1. June 2007.
This Informational Report describes the concept and supporting rationale for the Spacecraft Onboard Interface Services (SOIS).  It is intended to provide an introduction and overview of the SOIS services concept upon which the detailed CCSDS SOIS recommendations are based, as well as to summarize the specific individual service recommendations and rationale. The concepts described in this Informational Report are the baseline concepts for the CCSDS standardization activities with respect to services and generic support services to be used in the flight segment of spacecraft systems.
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Space Link Extension Services--Executive Summary. Green Book. Issue 2. March 2006.
This Administrative Report provides an overview of Space Link Extension (SLE) Services.  It is designed to assist readers with their review of existing and future SLE documentation.
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Standard Terminology, Conventions, and Methodology (TCM) for Defining Data Services. Green Book. Issue 1. November 1994.
This Report is a summary of, and cross-reference to, internationally adopted standards for defining data services, and is the result of a study of different data service definition conventions conducted in support of the definition of CCSDS Space Link Extension services. The material contained in the Report is not limited to Space Link Extension services and may be applicable to other data service definition activities of CCSDS and its member Agencies.
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Cross Support Concept -- Part 1:  Space Link Extension. Green Book. Issue 3. March 2006.
This Report presents the cross support concept for CCSDS Space Link Extension (SLE) services.  It identifies the functional components of the ground-resident portion of a space data system and defines the interface points where agency interoperations may occur. This Report summarizes the technical considerations for all cross support of CCSDS-compliant space data systems.
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Space Link Extension--Application Program Interface for Transfer Services--Summary of Concept and Rationale. Green Book. Issue 1. January 2006.
This Report presents a summary of supplementary information supporting the CCSDS documents that specify the Application Program Interface (API) for SLE transfer services.
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Space Link Extension--Application Program Interface for Transfer Services--Application Programmer's Guide. Green Book. Issue 1. January 2006.
This Application Programmer's Guide provides tutorial material for software developers wishing to integrate the API into SLE user applications or SLE provider applications.   In particular, it explains how to create and configure API components and discusses a number of scenarios demonstrating how an application can use the API.
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CCSDS Glossary. Green Book. Issue 3. July 1997.
This Report consolidates glossaries provided by the active technical panels of the CCSDS.
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Unique Identification of CCSDS Objects and Services. Green Book. Issue 1. June 2000.
This Report defines the highest-level CCSDS identifiers available to distinguish among types of CCSDS-defined objects and services at the CCSDS level, and it describes how to construct unique identifiers in the larger context of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT) identifiers.
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