REPORT CONCERNING SPACE
DATA SYSTEM STANDARDS
CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
FOR
SPACE DATA SYSTEMS
GLOSSARY
CCSDS A30.0-G-2
GREEN BOOK
February 1997
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AUTHORITY
Issue:
Green Book, Issue 2
Date:
February 1997
Location:
Not Applicable
This document has been approved for publication by the Management Council of the
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) and reflects the consensus of
technical panel experts from CCSDS Member Agencies. The procedure for review and
authorization of CCSDS Reports is detailed in the Reference [42].
This document is published and maintained by:
CCSDS Secretariat
Program Integration Division (Code OI)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Washington, DC 20546, USA
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FOREWORD
This document is a technical report which consolidates glossaries provided by the active
technical panels of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS).
Through the process of normal evolution and the progress in the build-up of
implementations, it is expected that modifications and expansions of this report will occur.
This Report is therefore subject to CCSDS document management and change control
procedures which are defined in Reference [42].
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At time of publication, the active Member and Observer Agencies of the CCSDS were
Member Agencies
– British National Space Centre (BNSC)/United Kingdom.
– Canadian Space Agency (CSA)/Canada.
– Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/France.
– Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)/Germany.
– European Space Agency (ESA)/Europe.
–
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)/Brazil.
– National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/USA.
– National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)/Japan.
– Russian Space Agency (RSA)/Russian Federatio