CCSDS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Director
• Area Director, MOIMS

Daniel Fischer is the Area Director of the Mission Operations and Information Management Services Area (MOIMS). Daniel Fischer is with the European Space Agency where he is currently heading the Applications and Robotics Data Systems Section in the Ground Segment Engineering and Innovation Department. This team is developing and assessing space applications for innovative developments in the fields of cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and SmallSATs, among others. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Luxembourg in 2010. Following this, he joined ESA where he worked in several engineering and strategic development positions before taking up his current position. Dr. Fischer is involved in several cybersecurity activities within ESA, including the CCSDS security standardization activities, cybersecurity for ESA's Space Safety Programme, ESA space missions security concepts, and other security activities related to systems engineering security.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• CESG Chair
• Chairman, CESG

Dr. Klaus-Juergen Schulz is the Chair of the CCSDS Engineering Steering Group (CESG) & Head of the Ground Station Engineering Division, European Space Agency (ESA) / European Space Operations Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. Dr. Schulz is since 2009 the Head of the Ground Station Engineering Division. The division is responsible for the engineering of the multi-mission ground stations of the ESA Tracking Station Network (ESTRACK) for space communication in near Earth and Deep Space using radio frequency and optical techniques. Recent engineering efforts were expanded into the domain of sensors for space object tracking using Radar, passive and active optical means. Dr. Schulz joined ESA in 1989 focussing on the engineering and operating of space communication systems for precursor missions of the International Space Station, and designing communication solutions for the European ISS Columbus module. In 1999 he became responsible for the operations and maintenance of the ESA Tracking Stations (ESTRACK), and brought into operation the first two ESA deep space stations. He was also the ESA representative to the Interagency Operations Advisory Group (IOAG) and instrumental in the deployment of the CCSDS Space Link Extension (SLE) cross support capability. Dr. Schulz holds a Diploma degree in Physics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Zuerich, Switzerland.

Job Titles:

• Director
• Area Director, CSS

Erik Barkley is the Area Director of the CCSDS Cross Support Service Area (CSS). Mr. Barkley's early professional career was focused on design and development of software intensive systems, first for commercial concerns, and from 1987 to 2001, as a contractor, for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which involved several software system deliveries into NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network (DSN). In 2001 Mr. Barkley joined JPL as an employee, and currently provides system engineering for the DSN Service Management System and manages multiple pilot tasks for the next generation of DSN service management. Among his professional interests are formal modelling techniques such as UML, BPMN, etc for systems specifications, WebServices protocols, and Service Oriented Architectures. Within CCSDS Mr. Barkley also chairs the Service Management Working Group of the CSS Area. He has co-authored various publications for industry conferences. Mr. Barkley holds a B.Sc. (with Honors) in Computer Science from the University of Montana.

Job Titles:

• Deputy Area Director of the CCSDS Space Link Services Area
• Deputy Area Director, SLS

Gilles Moury is the Deputy Area Director of the CCSDS Space Link Services Area (SLS). In 1985, Mr. Moury joined the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, the national space agency of France (CNES), at the Toulouse space center. At CNES, he became responsible for the development of on-board data processing and storage equipment for satellites, like the Solid State Recorder of the SIGMA mission, the Image Compression Module of the Clementine, Cassini and five other planetary exploration missions, the image compression algorithm and equipments of SPOT5 and HELIOS2 missions. In 1997, the French National Academy of Sciences awarded Mr. Moury the Kodak-Pathé-Landucci prize for his contributions to image compression for space missions. He lectures in data compression and satellite on-board data handling at various French engineering schools. He has co-authored more than thirty publications and communications on these subjects and holds patents in the field. In the domain of TM/TC communication protocols, he has been a consultant to major international satellite operators like EUTELSAT, INTELSAT and EUMETSAT. In addition to his active role within the CCSDS, Mr. Moury currently heads the On-Board Data Handling section within the technical directorate at CNES in Toulouse. Mr. Moury graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1983 and from the Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (Sup'Aéro) in 1985.

Job Titles:

• Deputy Area Director, SEA

Hiroshi Takeuchi is Deputy Area Director of the CCSDS Systems Engineering Area (SEA).

Job Titles:

• Deputy Area Director, CSS

Job Titles:

• Director
• Area Director, SLS
• Senior Space Communications Systems Engineer

Ignacio Aguilar Sánchez is the Area Director of the CCSDS Space Link Services Area (SLS). Ignacio Aguilar Sanchez is a Senior Space Communications Systems Engineer at the European Space Agency (ESA)/ European space research and technology centre (ESTEC). He holds an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering (1986, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain) and a Master's in Business Administration (1997, Open University, United Kingdom). Joined ESA in March 1991. Throughout his professional career at ESA he has been involved in a number of relevant projects and activities. In particular: Almost two decades of work for the SEA Security Working Group and in particular its application to Space Link Protocols in the last decade as member of the joint SLS-SEA Space Data Link Security Working Group, with frequent interaction with Space Link Protocols WG as well as with the Coding & Synchronization WG and the RF & Modulation WG; Rapporteur for the European Standards Telecommunication Institute (ETSI) for the revision of the ETSI Telemetry, Command and Ranging (TCR) Standard for Telecommunication Satellites (radio frequency modulation, coding) and accompanying technical report; GALILEO first generation, in charge of supervising the analysis and definition of their S-band and C-band space-to-ground interfaces, ranging from physical to application layers; Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) Microwave Link (ML), a state-of-the-art two-way time-transfer system, supervising its design and development phase; Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the ESA ISS Visiting Vehicle, in charge of its space communications systems during the design and development phase; Research and development activities covering robust spread spectrum communication (cryptographic modulation and synchronization), complementary channel coding and interleaving, frame synchronization as well as next generation telemetry systems and advanced antenna technology for launchers; Member and reviewer of the Technical Programme Committees of a number of conferences and workshops like the IEEE Military Communications Conference, IEEE Aerospace Conference, the ESA International Telemetry, Tracking and Command Workshop, the Space Ops Workshop as well as reviews for journals; Author of many publications addressing TT&C systems, spread spectrum modulation, channel coding and security.

Job Titles:

• Area Director, SOIS

Job Titles:

• Director
• Aerospace Computer Engineer
• Area Director, SOIS

Jonathan Wilmot is the Area Director of the Spacecraft Onboard Interfaces Area. Jonathan Wilmot is an aerospace Computer Engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the Flight Software Branch. He has over 30 years of aerospace software experience. Following several years developing software for commercial and defense avionics, he joined NASA in 1991 as a lead software engineer on the Small Explorer series of spacecraft. After varied roles on over 12 spacecraft, he now serves as a software systems architect with NASA's Core Flight System (cFS) reusable software framework project which is being used on multiple mission across NASA, US industry, and other organizations. He is also serves as a Deputy Software Technical Discipline Lead with the NASA Engineering and Safety Center, and is a member of NASA's Software Architecture Review Board (SARB). He received his BS in Software Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park.

Job Titles:

• Deputy Area Director
• Deputy Area Director, MOIMS
• Marc Duhaze - Deputy Area Director, MOIMS

Marc Duhaze is the Deputy Area Director of the Mission Operations and Information Management Services Area (MOIMS) and Deputy Chair of the Mission Planning and Scheuduling Working Group (MOIMS-MP). Marc holds an engineering degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the ENSEEIHT, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France. Marc is Expert in Satellite Operations at CNES. Marc's early professional career was focused on design and development of software dedicated to Control Command Center in a private company. In 1991, he joined CNES at the Toulouse Space Center, and currently he is expert in operations of Mission Control Systems..

Job Titles:

• Deputy Chair
• CESG Deputy Chair
• Chief System Engineer for NASA 's Deep Space Network at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Deptuty Chair, CESG

Mr. Tim Pham is the Deputy Chair of the CCSDS Engineering Steering Group (CESG). Mr. Tim Pham is currently the Chief System Engineer for NASA's Deep Space Network at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has been supporting the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) activities in Cross Support Transfer Services and the ground system development at the Morehead State University for the CubeSat operations. His recent system development effort focused on the use of low-cost commercial software-defined radio to increase data return to Voyager 2 mission during heliopause transition and to enable compatibility testing for upcoming Artemis-1with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency antennas. Past system developments included antenna arraying capability used to support Cassini, Spitzer and Voyager missions, and tone detection for the Entry Descent and Landing of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers Early in his career, Tim served as the lead system engineer in the developments of the ground telemetry system to maximize the data return for Galileo S-band mission, the DSN Radio Science system and the Goldstone Solar System Radar system. He received degrees in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California. Tim has published several papers on the topics of antenna arraying, spacecraft tracking, system modeling and performance analysis. He coauthored the book Antenna Arraying Techniques in the Deep Space Network. He is the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, and several NASA New Technology and Space Act Awards, as well as a recipient of the IARIA Fellowship.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Director
• Area Director, SEA

Peter Shames is the Area Director of the CCSDS Systems Engineering Area (SEA). For most of his career, he has been engaged in the process of turning computers into useful tools for scientists. Currently, Mr. Shames manages JPL's Information Systems Standards Program in the Interplanetary Network Directorate (IND). During his career he has developed architectures for a variety of NASA programs, including JPL's mission operations system, the Hubble Space Telescope science processing and archiving systems, as well as high speed data acquisition, pointing, and analysis systems at the Arecibo Observatory. Within the CCSDS, he works to define an end-to-end reference architecture for space data systems. Mr. Shames has served on a number of different working groups and panels at the CCSDS, has been on panels of the National Academy of Sciences and was a member of a science task force of the Internet Architecture Board.

Job Titles:

• Deputy Area Director, SIS

Rodney Grubbs is the Deputy Area Director of the Space Internetworking Services Area (SIS). Rodney Grubbs began his career as a co-op motion picture photographer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center while a student at the University of Alabama. He is currently the NASA Imagery Experts Program Manager and has chaired the Motion Imagery & Applications Working Group, in the Space Internetworking Services Area of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, since it became a working group. He is responsible for the NASA video distribution architecture including NASA TV and internet video distribution. He has been a Principal Investigator for flights of High Definition Television (HDTV) and Digital Cinema cameras and related experiments on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS), including the first ever live HDTV program from a spacecraft and the first ever Ultra High Definition program from a spacecraft. He is currently a Principal Investigator for the National Lab's Red Digital Cinema camera on the ISS and is the Imagery Integration Lead for NASA's Artemis Enterprise.

Job Titles:

• General Secretary

Job Titles:

• Area Director, SIS

Tomaso de Cola is the Area Director of the Space Internetworking Services Area (SIS). Tomaso de Cola received the master degree and PhD title from University of Genoa (Italy) in 2001 and 2010 respectively. He worked from 2002 to 2007 with the Italian Consortium of Telecommunications (CNIT), University of Genoa Research Unit, as scientist researcher. Since 2008, he has been with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where he has been involved in several projects funded by EU and ESA programs, focusing on different aspects of DVB standards, CCSDS protocols, emergency communications, and testbed design. He is currently leading the integrated satellite systems group at the satellite networks departments, as part of the DLR institute of communications and navigation (DLR-KN). Tomaso de Cola has been taking part in different standardization activities within ETSI, IETF, DVB, and CCSDS, where he currently serves as area director of the Space Internetworking Services (SIS). He has been involved in many projects (co-)funded by European and Italian Space agencies and European Commission, where he served as project leader, project coordinator, or technical contributor. Finally, he is co-author of more than 100 papers, including international conferences and journals. His main research activity concerns: TCP/IP protocols, satellite networks, delay tolerant networks, and protocol architectures for space systems. Dr. de Cola has served on the Technical Program Committee at many IEEE International Conferences and as TPC chair for the satellite track in many ICC and Globecom editions. He has also been guest editor for many IEEE journals and magazines. He is an IEEE ComSoc member, where he served as chair of the Satellite and Space Communications (SSC) technical Committee (TC) from 2017 to 2020. He is also recipient of the 2020 Satellite Communications Distinguished Service award from the aforementioned SSC technical committee.

Job Titles:

• Deputy Area Director, SOIS