The current generation of spacecraft being developed and operated by the Applied Physics Laboratory provides users with access to a broad spectrum of scientific instruments on maneuverable platforms that can be oriented for observation of both moving and stationary targets of interest. The capability of these increasingly complex spacecraft to perform data collection operations is approaching one observation per orbit. To enable both rapid configuration and generation of complex spacecraft command sequences, as well as reusability of command sequences among data collection operations, a packet-based concept for spacecraft command planning has been developed. The configuration of the spacecraft for any operation is designed using 'packets' where a packet represents a set of commands that is reusable. The packets can be combined in varying levels of functionality, and in varying time relationships, to create an observation timeline. At the lowest packet level are primitives. Primitives relate the details of command generation for a particular spacecraft to a 'message template.' Thus the packet concept itself is reusable from one spacecraft to the next.
Packet-Based Concept for Spacecraft Command Planning
1993
6 pages
Report
No indication
English
Astronautics , Mission planning , Packets (Communication) , Space missions , Data acquisition , Interplanetary spacecraft , Messages , Sequencing , Space design , Spacecraft instruments , Command and control , Instrument packages , Measuring instruments , Scientific satellites , Software engineering , Spacecraft equipment
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