Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has revealed NASA Kennedy Space Center has selected the Company's OS/COMET telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) software for the Constellation Launch Control System. OS/COMET is a commercial off-the-shelf software tool that provides TT&C capabilities for military, intelligence, and commercial satellite constellations.

The OS/COMET product will deliver critical command and telemetry processing services to meet the needs of the Launch Control System architecture. The KSC Launch Control System architecture leverages leading-edge industry standards, existing technologies, and commercially available products to provide significant core functionality in the command and control of constellation launch vehicles and ground support systems. Based on open software architecture concepts, the Launch Control System will deploy OS/COMET to provide a service within the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) pattern. Using OS/COMET as a SOA service capitalizes on its ease of configuration and efficient API interface to the LCS architecture.

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