cFS Publications

Space and Missile Systems Center payloads arrive at International Space Station on NASA commercial resupply mission
Space Test Program Satellite-4 (STPSat-4) leveraged NASA’s core Flight Software (cFS) to streamline the software development on the bus and ground system.

Rugged single-board computer for space embedded computing applications introduced by Aitech
Aitech Defense Systems Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif., is integrating the NASA cFS into the company’s SP0-S space single-board computer for space applications.

The Core Flight System (cFS) Community: Providing Low Cost Solutions for Small Spacecraft
While the cFS itself is a viable flight software (FSW) solution, we have discovered that the cFS community is a continuous source of innovation and growth that provides products and tools that serve the entire FSW lifecycle and future mission needs. 

Aitech and Embedded Flight Systems team up to integrate NAS’’s cFS into a space SBC
Aitech and Embedded Flight Systems, Inc. (EFSI) have partnered to integrate NASA’s cFS into Aitech’s flexible SP0-S spacesingle board computer (SBC).

Students experience ‘NASA Satellites 101′
Students at Capitol Technology University in Laurel, Maryland, for example, use NASA technologies, such as cFS, to develop their own computers and build their own small satellites known as Cube-Sats.

Snickerdoodle NASA cFS and RTEMS
Discussion of using snickerdoodle, cFS, and RTEMS.

Increasing flight software reuse with OpenSatKit
This paper describes the OpenSatKit that was developed to address the cFS deployment challenges and to serve as a cFS training platform for new users.

Using CCSDS Standards to Reduce Mission Costs
This paper will present the new CCSDS Spacecraft Onboard Interfaces Services (SOIS) Electronic Data Sheet (EDS) standards and show how they are being applied to data interfaces in the cFS software framework, tool chain, and ground systems across a range of missions at NASA. 

Model-based System Health Management and Contingency Planning for Autonomous UAS
This paper presents a model-based run-time architecture for autonomous on-board diagnosis, health management, and contingency management, implemented on NASA’s Core Flight System (cFS/cFE) as part of the Autonomous Operating System (AOS).

In-Time Safety Assurance Systems for Emerging Autonomous Flight Operations
This paper presents a preliminary conceptual design of such an in-time safety assurance system for highly-autonomous aircraft operating at low altitudes near and over populated areas.

Model-Based On-Board Decision Making for Autonomous Aircraft
This paper presents the software reliability analysis of the flight software of a recently launched space mission.

Software Reliability Analysis of NASA Space Flight Software: A Practical Experience
This paper describes Decision Maker (DM) and its reasoning algorithm and present the supporting modeling framework for the construction of system and fault models.

High-Resolution Image and Video CubeSat (HiREV): Development of Space Technology Test Platform Using a Low-Cost CubeSat Platform
This paper presents high-resolution image and video CubeSat (HiREV), the first constructed 6 U platform to reach the space technology test bed stage, developed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). The flight software of HiREV is based on cFS.

A Study on developing Flight Software for Nano-satellite based on NASA cFS
This paper describes the process of developing flight software for a nano-satellite based on cFS.