TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Baldi, Marco A1 - Bertinelli, Massimo A1 - Chiaraluce, Franco A1 - Closas, Pau A1 - Dhakal, Pawan A1 - Garello, Roberto A1 - Maturo, Nicola A1 - Navarro, Mònica A1 - Palomo, Jose Maria A1 - Paolini, Enrico A1 - Pfletschinger, Stephan A1 - Silva, Pedro Freire A1 - Simone, Lorenzo A1 - Vilà-Valls, Jordi T1 - State-of-the-Art Space Mission Telecommand Receivers JF - IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine N2 - Since their dawning, space communications have been among the strongest driving applications for the development of error correcting codes. Indeed, space-to-Earth telemetry (TM) links have extensively exploited advanced coding schemes, from convolutional codes to Reed-Solomon codes (also in concatenated form) and, more recently, from turbo codes to low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The efficiency of these schemes has been extensively proved in several papers and reports. The situation is a bit different for Earth-to-space telecommand (TC) links. Space TCs must reliably convey control information as well as software patches from Earth control centers to scientific payload instruments and engineering equipment onboard (O/B) spacecraft. The success of a mission may be compromised because of an error corrupting a TC message: a detected error causing no execution or, even worse, an undetected error causing a wrong execution. This imposes strict constraints on the maximum acceptable detected and undetected error rates. Y1 - 2017 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7990414/ SN - 0885-8985 SS - 0885-8985 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/MAES.2017.160079 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/MAES.2017.160079 VL - 32 IS - 6 SP - 4 EP - 15 ER -