Kubos Mission Applications¶

Mission applications include anything that makes decisions or governs autonomy on the satellite, as well as any other applications designed to address mission-specific concerns.

Applications can be used to enable the satellite to act autonomously. Some basic versions of this are:

Querying hardware services and storing telemetry
Creating and broadcasting telemetry beacons that change depending on satellite state
Controlling deployment procedures

Applications are also used to accomplish specific mission goals. Some possible examples are:

Image analysis
Payload operation
Payload monitoring
Deployment <deployment>

KubOS is built to support multiple mission application files existing and running on a system concurrently. This allows customers to break their logic into specific, siloed portions which can be updated or replaced piecemeal as issues arise or as new features are added.

Additionally, mission applications can be easily configured to execute different logic depending on when and how they are run. For example, when run on-demand, versus when run at startup.

Mission applications are monitored and managed by the Kubos applications service.