The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission developed and deployed a system to autonomously handle most routine commanding of the observatory. This system of ground software is able to build commands, validate them, and radiate the commands to the spacecraft, all without human interaction. In the case of an off -nominal scenario, the system will abort gracefully and notify the mission operations team of the problem. The system was phased into operations during the first three months of the SMAP mission and handles over 90% of the weekly commanding of the vehicle. The gradual introduction of the automation in flight, along with an extensive test campaign, was instrumental in the success of the software. The automation has enabled substantial efficiencies in operations team staffing and has improved reliability by removing the potential for human error. The system also allows the SMAP project to be more responsive which has shown significant benefits in areas of data latency and science accuracy.


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    Titel :

    Automated Commanding of the SMAP Spacecraft Enables Efficient, Reliable, and Responsive Operations


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    Kongress:

    IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2016 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2016-03-05


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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