A Simulator for Training Flight Safety Officers at the Guiana Space Center

Abstract

The certification of Flight Safety Officers at the Guiana Space Center requires a repetition of training exercises during which various failure scenarios are simulated. For each of them, the team decides in real time to abort the mission if required when precise conditions are met.

Due to the arrival at the CSG of the new launchers Soyuz and Vega and to the associated increased launch rate, the need to perform these trainings on a dedicated, realistic and easily configurable environment appeared. For this purpose, a training platform called EMUL was developed and is used at the CSG since April 2014.

After a brief recall of flight safety operations and of the training process of Flight Safety Officers at the CSG, this paper presents the main features and the architecture of this “flight safety simulator” and provides preliminary feedbacks and perspectives for further developments.

8 Glossary

ACVI

Adjoint Controle Visuel Immédiat

(Deputy Officer for real time telemetry)

AGC

Automatic Gain Control

CSG

Centre Spatial Guyanais

(Guiana Space Center)

EMUL

Entrainement MULtilanceur

GNC

Guidance Navigation and Control

GPS

Global Positioning System

H0

Take Off time

IMU

Inertial Measurement Unit

LOS

Loss Of Signal

HMI

Human-Machine Interface

MSA

Mission de Surveillance et d’Alerte

MSI

Mission de Sauvegarde et d’Intervention

OBC

On Board Computer

RSV

Responsable Sauvegarde Vol

(Flight Safety Officer)

RSVA

Responsible Sauvegarde Vol Adjoint

(Deputy Flight Safety Officer)