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Abstract:

With the advent of on-orbit reprogrammable remote sensing instruments, the need for high fidelity hardware capable of executing an identical copy of flight software or firmware for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)-based designs to verify and validate flight software changes prior to implementation on orbit has become a necessity. The SAGE III simulator proved itself to be an invaluable tool in expediting instrument development as well as meeting the requirement to verify and validate flight software changes prior to execution during on-orbit operations.