International Space Station Alpha (ISSA) will accommodate a variety of user payloads investigating diverse scientific and technology disciplines on behalf of five international partners: Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States. A combination of crew, automated systems, and ground operations teams will control payload operations that require complementary on-board and ground systems. This paper presents the current planning for the ISSA U.S. user payload operations concept and the functional architecture supporting the concept. It describes various NASA payload operations facilities, their interfaces, user facility flight support, the payload planning system, the onboard and ground data management system, and payload operations crew and ground personnel training. This paper summarizes the payload operations infrastructure and architecture developed at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to prepare and conduct ISSA on-orbit payload operations from the Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC), and from various user operations locations. The authors pay particular attention to user data management, which includes interfaces with both the onboard data management system and the ground data system. Discussion covers the functional disciplines that define and support POIC payload operations: Planning, Operations Control, Data Management, and Training. The paper describes potential interfaces between users and the POIC disciplines, from the U.S. user perspective.


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    Title :

    International Space Station Alpha user payload operations concept


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    Publication date :

    1994-11-01


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    Conference paper


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    English




    International Space Station Alpha User Payload Operations Concept

    Schlagheck, R. A. / Duncan, E. F. / Crysel, W. B. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1994


    International Space Station Alpha User Payload Operations Concept

    R. A. Schlagheck / W. B. Crysel / E. F. Duncan et al. | NTIS | 1994