Methodology

CAPTEC employs development methods appropriate to achieve the quality and reliability required for critical software application environments. The software development cycle is compliant with the PSS-05 standard of the European Space Agency (ESA). Object oriented approaches to development are supported by CASE tools with internally developed proprietary tools for quality control and generation of tests. Quality assurance is performed independently of software development.

Projects

The company has been engaged in the the following major development projects:

• Multimedia application for Cardiology Conferencing (CCS) using the PC/Windows platforms.
• Development of an interface for the Multimedia Display System (MDS) for integration with a 3rd party Radiology Information System (RIS).
• Software implementation of a Reversible Image Compression Algorithm (RICA) on the PC platform.
• On-board satellite control software for the European Space Agency's XMM mission.
• Independent software verification of on-board satellite software developed by a European supplier for a joint ESA / NASA mission.
  

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Space Projects

XMM The X-ray Multi-Mirror satellite (XMM) is a three-axis stabilised spacecraft carrying an observatory in the soft X-rays portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

HUYGENS / CASSINI The Huygens mission is to investigate the atmosphere and surface of Titan - the only one of Saturns moons to have an atmosphere. It consists of a probe which will be dropped into the Titan atmosphere by the NASA Cassini spacecraft 7 years after launch in 1997.

SOHO - SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory CAPTEC was responsible for the development of the Attitude and Orbit Control Software (AOCS) for this satellite. SOHO was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida in December 1995 and has been operating successfully since then.

ISO - Infrared Space Observatory CAPTEC was responsible for the development of the Attitude and Orbit Control Software (AOCS) for this satellite. ISO was launched from French Guiana in October 1995 and has been operating successfully since then.

HIPPARCOS The objective of the European Space Agency's Hipparcos mission was to produce an astrometric catalogue of about 100,000 stars to unprecedented accuracy levels.

Research Projects

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