Welcome to the OMG Space Domain Task Force (SDTF).

The Space DTF will meet online Tuesday through Thursday during the 24Q4 OMG meeting, September 10-12, 2024, in San Francisco, CA. The agendas will be available via the OMG Events page. Registered attendees are able to attend either in-person or remotely. Registration is available via the OMG website.

Plenary topics are detailed on the Space DTF Agenda page.

Space professionals committed to greater interoperability, reduction in costs, schedule, and risk for space applications through increased space standardization.

The Space Domain Task Force is fostering interoperability by building the standards to operate modern spacecraft. Check out the poster to the right that was showcased our progress and future specifications that was presented during the recent Ground System Architecture Workshop (GSAW) Conference in El Segundo, California.

• Clarify space, satellite and ground system requirements
• Provide a transparent space standards development environment, open to participation by all.
• Encourage the development and use of Model-Driven specifications that allow future-proofing of space systems.
• Encourage continued space industry member participation to leverage existing OMG specifications.

• Use the Object Management Group (OMG) technology adoption process to specify interfaces for software components, services, and frameworks in space applications.
• Lever existing OMG specifications.
• Involve all interested members of the OMG in the OMG Space Domain Task Force.
• Issue RFIs, RFPs and RFCs for technology relevant to space.
• Identify relevant standards, architectures, research and technologies in space applications.
• Assist and advise the Liaison Sub-Committee regarding its relationship with related Standards Organizations and Consortia.
• Participate and present in other space industry consortia to encourage further OMG participation.

Our task force has supported the adoption of several specifications:

• XML Telemetric and Command Exchange (XTCE)
• Ground Equipment Monitoring Service (GEMS)
• Spacecraft Operations Language Metamodel (SOLM)
• XTCE US Government Satellite Conformance Profile (XUSP)
• Command and Control Messaging Specification (C2MS)
• CubeSat System Reference Model Profile (CSRM)

The following standards are currently works in progress as future specifications:

• Ground Data Delivery Interface Space vehicle operations require varying compositions of ground applications that are integrated together within a common network (WAN and/or LAN) to provide an end-to-end ground system capability. This includes real time data and metadata transfer across these applications. Typical data includes spacecraft bus commands, telemetry, and mission payload in digital/baseband form. Metadata is carried in-band with the data and includes parameterized information and real-time status used by the ground applications to properly process, store, retrieve, and deliver the data. No common model for this dynamic data/metadata interface currently exists. Approaches, designs, and custom protocols vary widely from one vendor to another offering little opportunity for reuse to system integrators. The result is often a costly and time-consuming integration effort. This RFP solicits proposals for the following: 1) A Platform-Independent Model describing a lightweight application-level message interface that encapsulates spacecraft data and metadata so they can be transferred between ground applications within a common network. 2) At least one Platform-Specific Model describing the encoding format of the metadata and data encapsulated by this interface. This platform specific model will call out at least one standard transport layer for carrying the encapsulated/encoded metadata and data, with the intent of reusing an existing transport that provides high throughput, low latency, and optionally secure transmission.

We also support space-related standards managed by other task forces within the OMG:

• Space Telecommunications Interface (STI)
• Alert Management Service (ALMAS)

• We are currently drafting multiple RFPs as detailed in the RFIs/RFPs section.

The OMG SpaceDTF met in Chicago, IL from June 10-12, 2024. Here are the meeting highlights:

• Worked to get GDDI Revised Submission through the Architecture Board
• Discussed improvements for SOLM 1.2

Go to proposed RFPs