John Mooney, The Boeing Company, Richard Cleis, The Boeing Company, Trent Kyono, The Boeing Company, Matthew Edwards, The Boeing Company,
Keywords: Mount control, small telescope control system
Abstract:
The Space Observatory Control Kit (SpOCK) is the hardware, computers and software used to run small and large telescopes in the RDS division of the Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL). The system is used to track earth satellites, celestial objects, terrestrial objects and aerial objects. The system will track general targets when provided with state vectors in one of five coordinate systems. Client-toserver and server-to-gimbals communication occurs via human-readable s-expressions that may be evaluated by the computer language called Racket. Software verification is achieved by scripts that exercise these expressions by sending them to the server, and receiving the expressions that the server evaluates.
Date of Conference: September 19-22, 2017
Track: Poster