Draft documents are subject to change, and the draft CCSDS Recommendation referenced here does not necessarily represent consensus technical agreement among the CCSDS Member Agencies.

The Management Council of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) has authorized the publication, and requests Agency review, of the following document:

Reference Architecture for Space Data Systems (RASDS) is intended to provide a standardized approach for description of data system architectures and high-level designs, which individual CCSDS working groups may use within CCSDS. This draft update is an extended approach, RASDSv2, specifically adapted for the space domain and aligned with best current practices in the fields of system and software architecture and modeling.

Member and Observer Agencies are requested to send their sets of review comments to the CCSDS Review Coordinator with a copy to the CCSDS Secretariat. Each review comment should be submitted on a separate Review Item Disposition (RID) form. Submission of RIDs in electronic form is preferred. The following ASCII RID forms are available (click on form name to access):

Please contact the Secretariat office at secretariat@mailman.ccsds.org if you have questions.

International review start date: 7/1/2024
International review completion date: 8/30/2024
Overall review coordinator:
Name: Peter Shames
E-mail: Peter.M.Shames@jpl.nasa.gov