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Deployment in the Space Sector

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The greatest challenges in space projects are ensuring traceability of system requirements throughout the development process and guaranteeing that they have been properly implemented, and that the overall system therefore complies with the standards adopted in the sector. In addition, the software development process is often influenced by a number of factors, such as constraints on the hardware platform, stringent performance requirements, and results of the RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) analysis. To address the above challenges, Space Systems Finland Ltd. has used the DEPLOY project to explore ways of using formal modelling and verification for facilitating requirements engineering, deriving robust system architectures and increasing the degree of development automation.

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  1. Space Systems Finland Ltd., Kappelitie 6, FI-02200, Espoo, Finland

    Dubravka Ilić, Timo Latvala & Kimmo Varpaaniemi

  2. Department of Information Technologies, Åbo Akademi University, Joukahaisenkatu 3-5 A, FI-20520, Turku, Finland

    Linas Laibinis & Elena Troubitsyna

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Ilić, D., Laibinis, L., Latvala, T., Troubitsyna, E., Varpaaniemi, K. (2013). Deployment in the Space Sector. In: Romanovsky, A., Thomas, M. (eds) Industrial Deployment of System Engineering Methods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33170-1_5

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