Welcome to RT Logic - on-orbit satellite control, satellite test, launch vehicle telemetry, GPS, Satellite Communications, (SATCOM), airborne communications, spectrum monitoring, interference detection, AFSCN, CCSDS, Frequency Converter, GPS Ground Test, GPS receiver, SLE, Satellite Channel Simulator, Space Ground Link, Space Link Extension

RT Logic recognizes that customers want open and flexible solutions that leverage current Range investment. ARCS provides the answer. The product provides the ability to wrap an interface with existing applications and devices without compromising future upgrade or local/remote control and status. The options and supported hardware platforms coupled with the potential for adding or replacing functionality with no impacts to the API provides exceptional flexibility for use within both new and legacy systems.

The ARCS experience starts with the definition of a mission operation. The mission Configuration Editor provides a signal-centric method of describing the signals to be processed from the vehicles. In effect, the user describes the characteristics of the telemetry links to be processed by the processing equipment rather than the specific configuration for each component in the processing chain. Parameters selectable in the signal-centric editor include signal sources and destination (antenna feeds, recording devices, forwarded communication channels, test points, etc.), as well as the traditional telemetry and data acquisition values for frequencies, bandwidths, modulation types, bit rates, encodings, and frame configuration. Each configuration is named and stored, and can subsequently be re-edited, copied, or deleted.

The configuration is then applied, allowing ARCS to automatically select the appropriate hardware from pools of healthy and available components, connect the hardware where applicable, configure each component, and verify the signal processing path through the hardware by injecting a simulated signal that matches the configured link. Component lock status and captured data content are used to indicate the quality and readiness of the processing components for the upcoming mission. This activity typically is completed in a few seconds dependent upon bit rates and frame configuration.