NASA Core Flight Executive (cFE)

Description

"The Core Flight Executive is a portable, platform independent embedded system framework developed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. This framework is used as the basis for the flight software for satellite data systems and instruments, but can be used on other embedded systems." -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/coreflightexec/

Additional documentation can be found in:

• cfe-OSS-readme.txt
• docs
• cfe/docs

Requirements

• Git LFS. Details here.

Setup

1. Install Git and Git LFS

2. Clone this project:

   git clone --recursive https://github.com/lassondesat/coreflightexec.git
   cd coreflightexec
   git lfs install
   git lfs pull

Make sure that the setup has completed successfully, by checking that the osal directory is non-empty (contains files and folders). Also check that the files listed in .gitattributes at the end file under the "Define large file storage (LFS) support" are present in their entirety (not text file placeholders).

Sources

• http://opensource.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/cfe/index.php
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/coreflightexec/ (cFE-6.5.0a-OSS-release.tar.gz)

Dependecies

• https://github.com/lassondesat/osal (included as submodule)

License

• [SUA_Open_Source_cFE 6 1_GSC-16232.pdf](SUA_Open_Source_cFE 6 1_GSC-16232.pdf)