KOMPSAT-2 S/W Simulator.

In this paper, we present design and implementation features and validation of KOMPSAT-2 simulator (SIM). The SIM is implemented on PC server to minimize costs and troubles on embedding onboard flight software into simulator. Object oriented design methodology is employed to maximized S/W reusability, and XML is used for S/C characteristics data, TC, TM and Simulation data instead of expensive commercial DB. Consequently, we can reduce costs for the system development, efforts on embedding flight software. A simulation for science fine mode operation is presented to demonstrate the overall validation of SIM. SIM has been verified officially by various tests such as SIM subsystem test, MCE system integration test, interface test, site installation test, and acceptance test. They were performed successfully. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]