phroyd: cozydark: Space Travel With a New Language in Tow | On September 28, for the first time ever, SES, the Luxembourg-based satellite operator, has allowed an Ariane 5 rocket to transport a TV satellite into space, which is made by Astrium and runs entirely on latest generation software. Every single one of the programs used to operate the satellite was written in the new satellite language SPELL. The acronym stands for “Satellite Procedure Execution Language & Library.” What we are talking about here is a new standard, which will help the many different programming languages that were previously used to operate satellites and their subsystems to be unified under one roof. The University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) has contributed substantially to SPELL’s being adopted in the operations of Astrium satellites. To this end, SnT scientists took an existing mathematical tool and refined it getting it ready for practical application, with whose help the procedures written in different native languages can now be translated into SPELL using a fully automated process. SES is one of the world’s biggest satellite operators with a vast fleet of satellites in orbit. The satellites and their technical components are produced by different manufacturers who each use their own programming language. “Because of the complete and utter lack of common standards up until now, we used to have to make a big production out of operation and maintenance of the machines,” explains Martin Halliwell, Chief Technology Officer at SES. “Our operators were working with a number of different programming languages to help us control our SES fleet through space.” Which is problematic as the machines don’t easily forgive programming errors. Says Halliwell: “If a single error is made, it may result in our satellite getting lost in space. Which, for us, literally means incurring millions in losses.” continue reading Now THAT’S A Big WOW!!!

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Space Travel With a New Language in Tow |

On September 28, for the first time ever, SES, the Luxembourg-based satellite operator, has allowed an Ariane 5 rocket to transport a TV satellite into space, which is made by Astrium and runs entirely on latest generation software. Every single one of the programs used to operate the satellite was written in the new satellite language SPELL. The acronym stands for “Satellite Procedure Execution Language & Library.”

What we are talking about here is a new standard, which will help the many different programming languages that were previously used to operate satellites and their subsystems to be unified under one roof. The University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) has contributed substantially to SPELL’s being adopted in the operations of Astrium satellites. To this end, SnT scientists took an existing mathematical tool and refined it getting it ready for practical application, with whose help the procedures written in different native languages can now be translated into SPELL using a fully automated process.

SES is one of the world’s biggest satellite operators with a vast fleet of satellites in orbit. The satellites and their technical components are produced by different manufacturers who each use their own programming language. “Because of the complete and utter lack of common standards up until now, we used to have to make a big production out of operation and maintenance of the machines,” explains Martin Halliwell, Chief Technology Officer at SES. “Our operators were working with a number of different programming languages to help us control our SES fleet through space.” Which is problematic as the machines don’t easily forgive programming errors. Says Halliwell: “If a single error is made, it may result in our satellite getting lost in space. Which, for us, literally means incurring millions in losses.” continue reading

Now THAT’S A Big WOW!!!

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