Yet another CCSDS space packet protocol implementation with built in encoding and decoding.

Why another packet crate?

This crate's interface provides a wrapper for a CCSDS packet payload (including secondary headers), opposed to just parsing header bytes. The full packet is parsed into a SpacePacket struct, all overhead for the payload encoding length (including with CRC validation) is handled for the end user.

This crate was created after viewing other rust-based CCSDS crates and wanting a more friendly user interface for packet interaction.

Currently this crate assumes Big Endian for all byte streams. Though this may change to be generic over endianness in the future.

Optional Features

CRC Support

This crate provides data validation via CRC-16 calculation through the crc crate.

Sink/Stream Support

Another optional feature this crate provides is support for for sapcepacket I/O via sinks and stream through the async-codec and tokio-codec features. This allows users to easily create asynchronous listeners for spacepackets with optional sync markers and CRC support.

TC/TM Support and CLTU Generation

TeleComamand (TC) and Telemetry (TM) Frames are supported when the tctm feature is enabled.

Communications Link Transmission Unit (CLTU) packets can also be constructed when this feature is enabled. Currently only BCH and Randomized BCH encoding is supported however LDPC encoding is planned as a future enhancement.

Examples

use spacepacket::{GroupingFlag, PacketType, SpacePacket};

let payload = b"secret payload".to_vec();
let packet = SpacePacket::new(
    0,
    PacketType::Command,
    0x012,
    GroupingFlag::Unsegm,
    3,
    true,
    payload,
);

let bytestream = packet.encode();
let recovered_packet = SpacePacket::decode(&mut bytestream.as_slice()).unwrap();
assert_eq!(packet, recovered_packet)