The key aspects effective technology of onboard software development for communications, navigation and geodesy satellites

The article summarizes more than forty-year period of progress of technology of development of the onboard software of the satellites created by JSC «Academician M. F. Reshetnev» Information Satellite Systems» (now JSC «RESHETNEV»), and provides an overview of the key aspects that make this technology effective: satellite software is developed as a set of satellite system software, considered as software built into these systems; satellite system software operates in a single hardware and software environment and is developed on single tools using a single technology; the system for supporting design, system testing and software maintenance is built on the basis of the satellite software information model and the system of development object archives; the environment for development, autonomous testing and verification of software