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Current and future trends for launch vehicles include increasingly stringent requirements for mission responsiveness and adaptability. In a previous FLPP activity we developed a tool to analyze state-of-the-art approaches for on-board optimized guidance. FORCES Pro was used in the backend to generate fast embeddable optimization solvers. This paper describes the implementation of the simulation tools, the guidance and control algorithms, and the initial steps taken to qualify the flight software for demonstrator vehicles currently under development by FLPP and INCAS. Our software has been used to simulate thousands of end-to-end scenarios involving nominal and off-nominal conditions, different levels of dispersion, mid-flight target changes and partial engine failures. All missions in the test plan completed successfully with adequate landing states and constraint satisfaction throughout the entire flight
