Speaker
Mr
Charles Collier
(AFRL)
Description
The Next Generation Space Interconnect Standard (NGSIS) effort is a Government-Industry collaboration effort to define a set of standards for interconnects between space system components with the goal of cost effectively removing bandwidth as a constraint for future space systems. The NGSIS team has selected the ANSI/VITA 65 OpenVPX standard family for the physical baseline and is extending it for space applications. The Serial RapidIO protocol has been selected as the basis for the digital data transport and enhanced features are being defined for space applications. The NGSIS standards are developed to provide sufficient flexibility to enable users to implement a variety of system configurations, while meeting goals for interoperability and robustness for space. The NGSIS approach and effort represents a radical departure from past approaches to achieve a Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) for space systems and could possibly serve as an exemplar for the Reinventing Space community as an alternate business model for future space systems developments.
