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The Use of Modeling for Flight Software Engineering on SMAP

Murray, Alexander·Jones, Chris G.·Reder, Leonard·Cheng, Shang-Wen
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The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission proposes to deploy an Earth-orbiting satellite with the goal of obtaining global maps of soil moisture content at regular intervals. Launch is currently planned in 2014. The spacecraft bus would be built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), incorporating both new avionics as well as hardware and software heritage from other JPL projects. [4] provides a comprehensive overview of the proposed mission

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Murray, Alexander, Jones, Chris G., Reder, Leonard, Cheng, Shang-Wen. 2011-03-05. The Use of Modeling for Flight Software Engineering on SMAP. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120007457

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