PLATO payload, big data PUS packets classifier and astronomical digital imagette data decompression

M. Vela Nuñez; E. Galli; D. Loidolt; C. Ziemke; A. Pannocchia; V. Noce; C. del Vecchio Blanco; M. Focardi; R. Cosentino

doi:10.1117/12.2628230

27 August 2022 PLATO payload, big data PUS packets classifier and astronomical digital imagette data decompression

M. Vela Nuñez, E. Galli, D. Loidolt, C. Ziemke, A. Pannocchia, V. Noce, C. del Vecchio Blanco, M. Focardi, R. Cosentino

Proceedings Volume 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 121804O (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628230
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Abstract

The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is a space telescope under ESA development. The (PLATO’s) Instrument Control Unit (ICU) is an electronics box that is responsible for the management (MGT) of the payload (P/L), the communication with the Service Module (SVM), and the compression of scientific data before transmitting them as telemetries TMs to the SVM. The ICU receives data from 2 “fast” (F-DPU) each 2.5s and 24 normal Data Processing Units (N-DPU) each 25s. In order to reduce the huge data volume produced on-board by the 104 CCD (4 CCD per camera), for each target star it will be allocated a window, from which all the pixel values will be gathered, forming a small image called “imagette”. These cropped images are compressed by means of a lossless algorithm running in the ICU FPGA and transmitted as Packet Utilization Standard (PUS) packets to SVM. These streamlined transmissions require qualified compression and decompression techniques to preserve images. In this poster we propose a scripting tool that classifies and collects automatically telemetry PUS packets, hosting scientific data and metadata, to reconstruct compressed imagettes on-ground.

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M. Vela Nuñez, E. Galli, D. Loidolt, C. Ziemke, A. Pannocchia, V. Noce, C. del Vecchio Blanco, M. Focardi, and R. Cosentino "PLATO payload, big data PUS packets classifier and astronomical digital imagette data decompression", Proc. SPIE 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 121804O (27 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628230

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