Session
Technical Session II: Mission Operations
Abstract
The New Millennium (NM) program announced by NASA calls for ambitions "smaller, better, faster" spacecrafts. The basic idea is that truly low-cost operations require a paradigm shift to "justified operations". The NM baseline is zero operator between the payload user and the instrument. Each and every operator allowed into the mission must be JUSTIFIED. Several large institutions are making plans to "demonstrate" NM capabilities on testbeds in a matter of years. The Computational Sciences Division (IC) at the NASA Ames Research Center, together with several partners, is actively working towards implementing autonomous capabilities on three missions: EUVE, TERRIERS, and WEBSAT. This paper describes the three efforts in a unified framework (Figure 1). The NM goals can be stated as populating the autonomous operations functional diagram with automated re-usable software/hardware modules.
Steps Toward New Millennium: A Unified Approach to Three Satellite Projects
The New Millennium (NM) program announced by NASA calls for ambitions "smaller, better, faster" spacecrafts. The basic idea is that truly low-cost operations require a paradigm shift to "justified operations". The NM baseline is zero operator between the payload user and the instrument. Each and every operator allowed into the mission must be JUSTIFIED. Several large institutions are making plans to "demonstrate" NM capabilities on testbeds in a matter of years. The Computational Sciences Division (IC) at the NASA Ames Research Center, together with several partners, is actively working towards implementing autonomous capabilities on three missions: EUVE, TERRIERS, and WEBSAT. This paper describes the three efforts in a unified framework (Figure 1). The NM goals can be stated as populating the autonomous operations functional diagram with automated re-usable software/hardware modules.
