Monitoring and Control Operations Preparation Framework for EGS-CC Based Environments

Abstract

OPEN is an ESA initiative to provide an open, shared, coherent and harmonized environment and software foundation for current and future monitoring and control preparation tools dedicated to EGS-CC. This long term collaborative vision is being implemented with a first version released under a commercially friendly ESA Community License. As the current implementation is now delivering fundamental functionalities, the future looks promising. This paper provides a description of the Operations Preparation Environment (OPEN) software framework. It describes the rationales and objectives behind the initiative, the implementation of the framework, functionalities, the extensions under implementation and the use cases at ESOC (i.e. OPEN-M, OPEN-S).