A general definition of Mission Planning is given. The definition covers the full scope of an end-to-end mission planning system. Noting the mission-specific nature of most mission planning systems, a classification of autonomous spacecraft missions is made into Observatory, Survey, multi-instrument science, and Telecommunications missions. The mission planning approach for one mission in each category is examined critically. The following missions were chosen: ISO (Infrared Space Observatory); ERS-1 (European Remote Sensing Satellite); and Eureca (European Retrievable Carrier). The paper gives a summary of lessons learned from these missions suggesting improvements in areas such as requirements analysis, testing, user interfacing, rules, and constraints handling. The paper will also examine commonalities in functions, which could constitute a basis for identification of generic mission planning support tools.


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    Title :

    A review of mission planning systems


    Contributors:
    Jones, M. (author) / Sorensen, E. M. (author) / Wolff, T. (author) / Haddow, C. R. (author)


    Publication date :

    1993-03-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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