This paper presents an information architecture developed for the Space Station Freedom as a model from which to derive an information architecture standard for advanced spacecraft. The information architecture provides a way of making information available across a program, and among programs, assuming that the information will be in a variety of local formats, structures and representations. It provides a format that can be expanded to define all of the physical and logical elements that make up a program, add definitions as required, and import definitions from prior programs to a new program. It allows a spacecraft and its control center to work in different representations and formats, with the potential for supporting existing spacecraft from new control centers. It supports a common view of data and control of all spacecraft, regardless of their own internal view of their data and control characteristics, and of their communications standards, protocols and formats. This information architecture is central to standardizing spacecraft operations, in that it provides a basis for information transfer and translation, such that diverse spacecraft can be monitored and controlled in a common way.
Standardizing the Information Architecture for Spacecraft Operations
1994
8 pages
Report
No indication
English
Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Information Systems , Ground based control , Information systems , Integrated mission control center , Spacecraft control , Architecture (Computers) , Object-oriented programming , Protocol (Computers) , Standardization , Data processing , Data storage , Data transfer (Computers) , Logical elements , Telecommunication
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