Jacques Blamont, French Space Agency (CNES)
Catherine Lambert, CNES, France
On board data processing is nowadays fundamental to improve the mission performances and to optimize the on-board resources needed to store, manipulate, compress and transmit data to ground whatever the mission : earth observation, scientific, telecommunications mission, ....
The steady performance improvements of the data processing algorithms and the availability, for spaceborne applications, of highly integrated ASIC circuits allow the implementation of sophisticated real-time schemes.
This talk will outline some of the main on-board data processings in CNES missions with emphasis on architectures, and present the future prospects.
Jacques Blamont received the D.SC. from Paris University (1956) in
Physics. From 1957 to 1996, he was Profesor (now emeritus) at University of
Paris VI. After having been in charge of the first French sounding rockets, he
became scientific and technical director of CNES, where he serves still as
adviser to the President. He has participated to practically all planetary
missions (both American and soviet) as a Prime Investigator for various
experiments, culminating with the development during the 80’s and early 90’s of
image compression devices, whose first flew in 1994 on the DOD Clementine
mission.
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