Spacecraft command language

Ultimately such languages are used to command remote spacecraft with telecommands, but they are also used for development and verification of onboard systems (prototype, engineering model, and flight hardware and software), and of ground systems, prior to launch.[3] Various STOLs were created at other locations with mission-specific or site-specific names, and proliferated to the extent that a Jargon Interpreter program was prototyped at one GSFC, to convert English statements to a limited set of MSTOL directives, with plans for other STOL dialects.[4] Other languages were later developed and offered by private companies as part of satellite control software suites.The command can be uplinked as-is if the spacecraft has the ability to read the text format.Otherwise, the command is translated to a packed binary representation on the ground, prior to uplink.
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