Abstract: Spacecraft control systems are typical CPSs (cyberphysical systems). The application of CPS techniques will be an important way of improving the correctness and efficiency of the design of spacecraft control systems. Based on the studies on the characteristics of CPSs and the progress of the researches of CPS techniques, and the discussion of the features of spacecraft control systems, the practicability of applying CPS techniques to spacecraft control systems is analyzed, and an idea that introduces CPS techniques into the design, verification and validation processes of spacecraft control systems is proposed, to deal with the problems raised in these processes. At last, several technical challenges are discussed about the application of CPS to spacecraft control systems.

Key words: cyberphysical systems, spacecraft control systems, application analysis